| Howard Paul - 1853 - 336 pages
...great vogue with the young people of America, are fondly reproduced from year to year : — " 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...the chimney with care, In hopes that ST. NICHOLAS would soou be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums... | |
| 1853 - 404 pages
...they lied ; The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died. CHRISTMAS TIMES.— MOORE. 'TWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas* soon would be there. ' The children were nestled all snug in their beds,... | |
| 1854 - 456 pages
...a common spot Of earth to me. C HRISTMAS TIMES. — Howard. 'T WAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring,...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...I have composed them all as carefully and correctly as I could." A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS. "Г WAS mountain-cloud; And heard, with voice as trumpet loud,...for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the ; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;... | |
| 1855 - 458 pages
...earth to me. 66 CHRISTMAS TIMES. C HRISTMAS TIMES. — Howard. 'TwAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house Not a creature was stirring,...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...Be a common spot Of earth to me. CHRISTMAS TIMES. — Howard. 'T WAS the night before Christmas, and all through the house "Not a creature was stirring,...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1855 - 686 pages
...the mysterious visiter! The follow ing fine poetry upon the subject must gratify the reader : It was the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; When what in the air to my eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer; With... | |
| 1856 - 588 pages
...THE NIGHT ILLUSTRATED Л..аШ чWAS the night before Christmas, when, all throngh the houee, Not и creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings...care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were neиh-d all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-pluma danced thro< their head7;... | |
| 1856 - 642 pages
...you. In connection with which subject, a striking little episode came off, "off " the Battery, " on the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." At that quiet time about three hundred gallant souls, who had heard the alarm of Nicaraguan war, and... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...THE VISIT OF ST. NICHOLAS. 289 XV. — THE VISIT OF ST. NICHOLAS. T WAS the night before Christinas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring...The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While... | |
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