| 1878 - 254 pages
...Tod'dy, a mixture of spirit and water sweetened. ' r I "1WAS the uigbt before Christmas, when all _L 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... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1878 - 874 pages
...as naught but death can bring. —Detroit Free Prut. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.— CC MOORE. Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hunsr by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there : The children were... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1878 - 708 pages
...-;•;- -ro- w* ... po BJJ 09 f «!»• t*l:i«l:i*i'*ikifvilH^itil?«, when all through the house The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their head*;... | |
| Phineas Garrett - 1879 - 784 pages
...naught but death can bring. — Detroit Free Frets. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.— CC MOORE. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there : The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;... | |
| Samuel Eliot - 1879 - 152 pages
...doth more good unto the poor Than many a crowned king ! MARY HOWITT. A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS. 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house...care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;... | |
| 1879 - 140 pages
...that soothing cadence ear, heart, conscience win. $ iisit torn St. ptartas. (CLEMENT C. MOORE.) 'TWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house...care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1124 pages
...blest if he shall have a whole bone in his skin ! THOMAS HOOD. -a A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS. 'T WAS own. The beasts that roam over the plain My form...indifference see ; They are so unacquainted with man, Their cliimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...Tell me of him and no other ! How's my boy — my boy?" SYDNEY DOBELL, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. G 9 9]M R R 4 ; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar -plums danced through their... | |
| Poetic reader - 1881 - 250 pages
...far as eye can reach Belted with snow. BENJAMIN GODGH. DESCRIPTIVE POEMS. ST. NICHOLAS' NIGHT. 'TWAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house...care, In hopes that ST. NICHOLAS soon would be there ; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their... | |
| William Brisbane Dick - 1881 - 220 pages
...elements of gelid things ! i THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. CC KOORK. 'Twas the night before ChristmaR, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring,...care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, "While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;... | |
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