"Round about Our Coal Fire": A Book of New Games, Original and Selected, with Appropriate Music, Christmas Charades and Songs, Novellettes, and Drawing-room ComediettasJames Blackwood, 1860 - 240 pages |
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Antonio Martini bawbees Beaudesert beautiful Belle Marguerite Ben Jonson Benevola Benigna birds blithesome blossoms bough bower brave Bridge of Avignon bright brow carol Cecilia chime CHORUS Christmas circle Clairvoyante Comrades crown custom dame dance round dancers dear divine dream earth Estella fair fairy fancy Fcap Fioretta flowers Frank Cavalier gentle gift glow goes round Green Serpent hand happy heart honour hour Hush Illustrations imitated Ippolito JAMES BLACKWOOD JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES Julius Cæsar king kiss lady Laidronette leader lord Magotine Majolaine Maligna Marquis melody merrily merry Messer Martini Miller-Ele misletoe Neath never night o'er pantomime pastime Paternoster Row pause pays a forfeit player poet Prince Princess Queen reply RONDE AND GAME says Second sing sleep SLEEPING BEAUTY song soul spell star stolen kiss sung sweet thee thou thro Timbuctoo Trouvère verse wand wassail young
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Page 165 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 161 - The boar's head in hand bear I, Bedeck'd with bays and rosemary ; And I pray you, my masters, be merry Quot estis in convivio. Caput apri defero, Reddens laudes domino.
Page 159 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
Page 84 - First may light My shallop o'er the wave to-night ; But she will hide in a little while, The lustre of her silent smile ; For fickle she is, and changeful still, As a madman's wish, or a woman's will. Row on, row on ! — The Second is high In my own bright lady's balcony ; And she beside it, pale and mute — Untold her beads, untouched her lute — Is wondering why her lover's skiff So slowly glides to the lonely cliff. Row on, row on ! — When the Whole is fled, The song will be hushed, and the...
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Page 151 - SO now is come our joyful'st feast; Let every man be jolly, Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry. Now, all our neighbours...
Page 165 - HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
Page 159 - Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Page 149 - Now, now the mirth comes With the cake full of plums, Where beane's * the King of the sport here ; Beside we must know, The pea also Must revell as Queene in the court here.