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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... things are alike hastening to rapid and inevitable decay . There are few types more awfully representative of that which they typify than is the shadow . It is Time almost made visible . Through it , the mind reaches the most vivid ...
... things are alike hastening to rapid and inevitable decay . There are few types more awfully representative of that which they typify than is the shadow . It is Time almost made visible . Through it , the mind reaches the most vivid ...
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... 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 : - " Ye are dwelling with the faded flowers , Ye are with the suns long set ...
... 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 : - " Ye are dwelling with the faded flowers , Ye are with the suns long set ...
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... things provided for their entertainment . Everybody kept holiday but the cooks ; and all sounds known to the human ear seemed mingled in the merry pćan , save the gobble of the tur- keys . There were no Turkeys — at least they had lost ...
... things provided for their entertainment . Everybody kept holiday but the cooks ; and all sounds known to the human ear seemed mingled in the merry pćan , save the gobble of the tur- keys . There were no Turkeys — at least they had lost ...
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... things ; and not to be read by a hungry man with any degree of equanimity . Of course , they are ex post facto ballads ; and could only have been written , under the inspiration of memory , —at a time when men were at leisure to devote ...
... things ; and not to be read by a hungry man with any degree of equanimity . Of course , they are ex post facto ballads ; and could only have been written , under the inspiration of memory , —at a time when men were at leisure to devote ...
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... things , -summed up by the per- petually recurring burthen of 66 Plum - pudding , goose , capon , minc'd pies , and roast beef ! " Our readers had better take a biscuit and a glass of sherry , be- fore they venture upon the glimpses ...
... things , -summed up by the per- petually recurring burthen of 66 Plum - pudding , goose , capon , minc'd pies , and roast beef ! " Our readers had better take a biscuit and a glass of sherry , be- fore they venture upon the glimpses ...
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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.