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... custom , or to describe some feature worth preserving , connected with the Christmas celebrations of past or present times . And he feels that , if he could justify all his other shortcomings as readily as he can the one in question ...
... custom , or to describe some feature worth preserving , connected with the Christmas celebrations of past or present times . And he feels that , if he could justify all his other shortcomings as readily as he can the one in question ...
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... customs and festivities of the Christmas season among our forefathers at this early period of our history . The materials for this purpose will have to be culled from more fugitive sources , and will be mainly comprised of poems which ...
... customs and festivities of the Christmas season among our forefathers at this early period of our history . The materials for this purpose will have to be culled from more fugitive sources , and will be mainly comprised of poems which ...
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... customs and festivities of the Christmas season among our forefathers at this carly period of our history . The materials for this purpose will have to be culled from more fugitive sources , and will be mainly comprised of poems which ...
... customs and festivities of the Christmas season among our forefathers at this carly period of our history . The materials for this purpose will have to be culled from more fugitive sources , and will be mainly comprised of poems which ...
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... in the olden time , than the custom of bringing in the Boar's Head with minstrelsy . The Carol for this purpose , discovered on the solitary leaf remaining of a volume of Christmas Carols , printed by Wynkin de Worde.
... in the olden time , than the custom of bringing in the Boar's Head with minstrelsy . The Carol for this purpose , discovered on the solitary leaf remaining of a volume of Christmas Carols , printed by Wynkin de Worde.
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Christmas Henry Vizetelly. Carals in Praise of the Bolly or the Soy . HE custom of decking houses and churches with evergreens towards the close of the year , appears to be of very ancient date , it being , in fact , one of those ...
Christmas Henry Vizetelly. Carals in Praise of the Bolly or the Soy . HE custom of decking houses and churches with evergreens towards the close of the year , appears to be of very ancient date , it being , in fact , one of those ...
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ancient angels appear Babe bear beef beer bells birth blessed boar's head born bright bring capon CAROL cheer child Christ Christmas Day cold comes courtier crown custom dancing dish door doth drink earth eyes face fall feast festival fire give glad glory goose grace green hall hand happy hath heart Heaven holly keep king land leaves light live Lord maid manger merry mind mirth mistletoe morning mother neighbours never night o'er Old Christmas once pass peace period play poems poor present Prince queen Ring roast round season seen shepherds shine sing sleep snow song soul sound sport star summer sweet tell thee things thou tidings tree true unto Wassail Wassail bowl wild winds wine winter young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 101 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so ; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow ; And, with your ninefold harmony, Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 99 - Nature, that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Of Cynthia's seat the Airy region thrilling, Now was almost won To think her part was done, And that her reign had here its last fulfilling : She knew such harmony alone Could hold all Heaven and Earth in happier union.
Página 55 - When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit; Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
Página 98 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Página 97 - It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born Child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies ; Nature in awe to Him Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour.
Página 195 - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light : The year is dying in the night ; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Página 101 - For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold, And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould, And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Página 191 - But though his eyes are waxing dim, And though his foes speak ill of him, He was a friend to me. Old year, you shall not die ; We did so laugh and cry with you, I've half a mind to die with you, Old year, if you must die He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er.
Página 99 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below ; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Página 138 - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating...