The Book of Christmas: Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas SeasonWiley & Putnam, 1845 - 220 pages |
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... hope to meet them in the fields , and upon the hills , amongst the flowers of spring and the fruits of autumn ; -to dance with them beneath the May - pole , and join them in the merry revels of the Harvest- home . The Editor cannot ...
... hope to meet them in the fields , and upon the hills , amongst the flowers of spring and the fruits of autumn ; -to dance with them beneath the May - pole , and join them in the merry revels of the Harvest- home . The Editor cannot ...
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... hope to speak ! —and as he is ( “ alas ! that he is so ! " ) already one whose " sun shall no more go down , neither shall his moon withdraw itself , " — we will avail ourselves of a language which deserves to be better known , —and ...
... hope to speak ! —and as he is ( “ alas ! that he is so ! " ) already one whose " sun shall no more go down , neither shall his moon withdraw itself , " — we will avail ourselves of a language which deserves to be better known , —and ...
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... hope and blighted feeling , which the heart is the better for recalling , and would not willingly forget , would pass from the mind , amid the crowd , and noise , and bustle of the world , but for these tablets , on which it is ...
... hope and blighted feeling , which the heart is the better for recalling , and would not willingly forget , would pass from the mind , amid the crowd , and noise , and bustle of the world , but for these tablets , on which it is ...
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... hope , — " Hopes that were angels in their birth , But perished young , like things of earth . " Happy , happy days were they : - " O ! their record is lively in my soul ! " and there is a happiness , still , in looking back to them ...
... hope , — " Hopes that were angels in their birth , But perished young , like things of earth . " Happy , happy days were they : - " O ! their record is lively in my soul ! " and there is a happiness , still , in looking back to them ...
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... hope to leap as high , or , in any respect , to cut such capers , as the lawyers had done . Now , this speech of the virgin queen we have reported here , less for the sake of any intrinsic greatness in the thought , or elegance in the ...
... hope to leap as high , or , in any respect , to cut such capers , as the lawyers had done . Now , this speech of the virgin queen we have reported here , less for the sake of any intrinsic greatness in the thought , or elegance in the ...
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Page 122 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Page 177 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
Page 32 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still ; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Page 106 - And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David : Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord : Hosanna in the highest...
Page 37 - Twas Edwin's self tha't pressed! "Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee. " Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign : And shall we never, never part. My life — my all that's mine? " No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true, The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
Page 161 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
Page 77 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, 'And if you find it wondrous short It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say. That still a godly race he ran Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
Page 105 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 66 - ... post and pair.' All hailed, with uncontrolled delight And general voice, the happy night, That to the cottage, as the crown, Brought tidings of salvation down. The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide ; The huge hall-table's oaken face, Scrubbed till it shone, the day to grace, Bore then upon its massive board No mark to part the squire and lord. Then was brought in the lusty brawn By old blue-coated serving-man ; Then the grim boar's-head frowned on high, Crested...
Page 32 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.