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" gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long... "
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1868
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. [pseud.] ...

Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...feathery dames," was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival : " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth was celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : ;, And then, they say, no spirit dares...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...and of the truth herein This present object made probation. Mar. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,...
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The Dramatic Works, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...probation.1* JVfor. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season coma Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike,...
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The Royal Lady's Magazine, and Archives of the Court of St. James's, Volumes 1-2

1831 - 984 pages
...Shakespeare has mentioned this latter fact in his stage play of Hamlet, Some say, that ever "gainst tlmt season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning gingelh all night long:, And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad. " How would you speak to a...
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Hamlet: And As You Like It. A Specimen of an Edition of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1832 - 530 pages
...herein This present object made probation. MAR. It faded on the crowing of the cock/29) Some say,f that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 1623,32. The bird of dawning singeth all night long : And then, they say, no spirit can walk0 abroad...
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The First-class Reader: A Selection for Exercises in Reading : from Standard ...

Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...occasion, have almost fancied them into another celestial choir, announcing peace and good-will to mankind. 'Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes, Wherein our Saviour's birth was celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir...
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The Sketch-book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq, Volume 2

Washington Irving - 1834 - 334 pages
...feathery dames," was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival: — " Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, Tliis bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; '; The...
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Volume 1

Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival : « Some say. that ever'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated , This bird of dawning singeth all night long ; And then , they say , no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome — then no planets...
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The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.]., Volume 5

1836 - 352 pages
...whose sore task Does not divide the Sunday from the week ?" " It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long, And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad." " Sleeping within mine orchard, My custom always of...
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