And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had roll'd, And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious rite Gave honour to the holy night ; On Christmas eve the bells were rung ; On... The Simple Truth: A Home Book - Página 148por Robert Collyer - 1877 - 151 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1872 - 134 páginas
...M'usgraves, they rode and they ran: Lochinvar? CHRISTMAS IN THE OLDEN TIME. ~ more wood '-the wind is chill; Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even heathen yet, the savage Dane At lol more deep the mead did drain ; High on the beach his galleys... | |
| Philip George and son, ltd - 1872 - 344 páginas
...more wood ! the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We '11 keep our merry Christmas still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer; Even heathen yet, the savage Dane At lol more deep the mead did drain ; High on the beach his galleys... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1873 - 264 páginas
...such barbarous mirth the while, As best might to the mind recall The boisterous joys of Odin's hall. And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had roll'd, And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious... | |
| Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - 1873 - 476 páginas
...decency is want of sense. SCOTT. Age, libertate Decembri Quando ita majores voluerunt, utere (Horace) — Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale ; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale. Heap on more wood... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 páginas
...is chill' ; But let' | it whis'|tle as' | it will', We'll keep' | our Christ'|mas mer'|ry still' : Each age' | has deemed' | the new'|-born year' The fit'|test time' | for fes'|tal cheer' '. — SCOTT. Here every other syllable is accented, and every other syllable unaccented. When we understand... | |
| 1874 - 334 páginas
...is chill : But let it whistle as it will. We '11 keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deem'd the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer;...Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had roll'd, And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious... | |
| 1874 - 332 páginas
...our Christmas merry still. Each age has deem'd the new-bom year The fittest time for ft^tal iheer; And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had roll'd, And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious... | |
| Walter Scott - 1874 - 336 páginas
...such barbarous mirth the while, A s best might to the mind recal The boisterous joys of Odin's hall. And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had roll'd. And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious... | |
| John Greenleaf Whittier - 1875 - 392 páginas
...such barbarous miith the while, As best might to the mind recall The boisterous joys of Odin's hall. And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had rolled, And bronghtblitheChristmasback again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious rite Gave honor... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...And hang, in idle trophy, near, The game-pouch, fishing-rod, and spear. SIR WALTER SCOTT : Marmion. And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had roll'd, And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. Domestic and religious... | |
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