 God rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day." Dolly listened with a devout look, glancing at Marner in some confidence that this strain would help to allure him to church. "That's Christmas...  Stories from My Attic - Page 183by Horace Elisha Scudder - 1896 - 269 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 356 pages
...body, he began with a clear chirp, and in "a melody that had the rhythm of an industrious hammer : — "God rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas day." Dolly listened with a devout look, glancing at Marner in some confidence that this... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1880 - 434 pages
...wren's nest : God forgive me ! A CHRISTMAS CAROL. TUNE — "God rest ye, merry gentlemen." GOD rest ye, merry gentlemen ; let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. The dawn rose red o'er Bethlehem, the stars shone through the gray, When Jesus Christ,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...through the earth and the skies : Shout the glad tidings, exultingly A CHRISTMAS CAROL. GOD rest ye, out, I trow, boys, And Tommy's dead. Send the colt to fair, boys, He's going blin on Christmas-day. The dawn rose red o'er Bethlehem, the stars shone through the gray, When Jesus Christ,... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1880 - 1108 pages
...Lillie Craik, a nephew of the distinguished histoMan f literature who bore the same name. GOD rest ye, ll from age to on Christmas-day. The dawn rose red o'er Bethlehem, the stars shone through the gray, When Jesus Christ,... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1881 - 536 pages
...dust. I took the wren's nest: A CHRISTMAS CAROL. TDNE— " God rest ye, merry gentlemen." fOD rest ye, merry gentlemen; let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas-day. The dawn rose red o'er Bethlehem, the stars shone through the gray, When Jesus Christ,... | |
 | William Henry Withrow - 1881 - 276 pages
...waiting for an answer he rumbled out of his capacious chest the ancient carol: " God rest you, memo gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born on Christmas day, To save us all from Satan's thrall, Whose souls had gone astray. Chorus. — God... | |
 | Harriet Burn McKeever - 1882 - 402 pages
...carols, brought out the family. Each bearing a torch, they sang the quaint old carol : "God rest ye, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus...this day, To save us all from Satan's power, When we are gone astray. O tidings of comfort and joy, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas day... | |
 | 1882 - 866 pages
...body, he began with a clear chirp, and in a melody that had the rhythm of an industrious hammer — *' God rest you, merry, gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay. For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas Day." What little brown-plumaged bird was ever more daintily described than this brown-headed,... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 pages
...ago ! FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. TUNE — " God rest ye, merry gentlemen." GOD rest ye, merry gentlemen ; let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ, our Saviour, was born on Christmas Day. The dawn rose red o'er Bethlehem, the stars shone through the gray, When Jesus Christ,... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 654 pages
...favourite with country folk, and as it is one of the oldest, so is it one of the quaintest and best: — " God rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay,...Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Was born upon this day." CHRISTMAS ROSE. See HELLEBORUS. CHRIS TOPHER, ST. (the " Christ-bearer ") received his name because... | |
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