 | 1822 - 440 páginas
...merry England, when Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale; Old Christmas brought his sports again. Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas...cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. The present manner of spending Christmas in the North Riding of Yorkshire, still preserves some traces... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 páginas
...smutted cheeks the visors made ; But O ! what masquers, richly dight, Can boast of bosoms half so light ! England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale ; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 páginas
...England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. "I'was Christmas broach "d the mightiest ale : 'Twas Christmas told the merriest...cheer The poor man's heart through half the year: Still linger, in our northern clime, Some remnants of the good old time ; And still, within our valleys... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1823 - 386 páginas
...of bosoms half so light ? England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again— A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year." " I have often thought," said the kind-hearted Sir Roger de Coverley, " it happens very well that Christmas... | |
 | Edward Nares - 1824 - 424 páginas
...of bosoms half so light? England was nierry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again — A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year." " I have often thought," said the kind-hearted Sir Roger de Coverly, " it happens very well that Christmas... | |
 | 1827 - 590 páginas
...what masquers, richly dight, Can boast of bosoms half so light! England, was merry England then, And Christmas brought his sports again. Twas Christmas...cheer, The poor man's heart through half the year.' But enough of the antiquity of Christmas ; turn we now to a survey of its usages in our own times. It has... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 678 páginas
...England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. T was Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale ; T was Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol...cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. Still linger in our porthcrn clime Some remnants of the good old time; And still within our vallics... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1830 - 302 páginas
...most ? MRS. P. Mustering his storms, a sordid host, Lo ! Winter desolates the year. December 2Ath. — 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas...cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. How happy every one looks in these good Christmas times ! Besides those feelings of gratitude and hope,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1831 - 582 páginas
...'T was Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; T was Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christinas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. Still linger in our northern clime Some remnants of the good old time; And still within our valleys... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1831 - 314 páginas
...and streaming light Already decks the new-born spring. December 24//i.— 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest...cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. How happy every one looks in these good Christmas times! Besides those feelings of gratitude and hope,... | |
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Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. 
