 | Mary Alice Seymour - 1858 - 280 páginas
...brought blithe Christmas back again, With all his hospitable train. ******* 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest...cheer The poor man's heart through half the year." SCOTT'S MARMION. DAY-BREAK had scarcely sketched his faint bars of light upon the eastern horizon before... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 224 páginas
...smutted cheeks the visors made, But, oh! what maskers, 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, 'T was Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1860 - 520 páginas
...contains the customary lament of the present day over the good old times which are passed and gone :— "England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought...cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. In the later editions of Marmion, an extract is given from one of Ben Jonson's masques, which contains... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1860 - 656 páginas
...supplied the masquerade, j And smutted cheeks the visors made; | But, O! what masquers richly dight i England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought...could cheer The poor man's heart through half the yea*'. Still linger in our northern clime Some remnants of the good old time; And still, within our... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1860 - 316 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.) - 1862 - 706 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1862 - 444 páginas
...church and hall, where " The fire, with well dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide ! — England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought...told the merriest tale — A Christmas gambol oft would cheer A poor man's heart through half the year." — Scott. In accordance then with the good... | |
 | Henry Twells - 1862 - 262 páginas
...was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports agen ! 'Twas Christmas broach'd the merriest ale ; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas...could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year ! SIR WALTER SCOTT. 135. REFLECTIONS OF KING HEZEKIAH IN HIS SICKNESS. WHAT ! and no more ? Is this... | |
 | Popular poetry - 1862 - 246 páginas
...smutted cheeks the visors made : But oh, what masquers, richly dight, Can boast of bosoms half so light P 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 cheer... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1864 - 680 páginas
...cheeks the visors made ; Hut, 0 ! what masquers, richly dight, Can boast of bosoms half so light ! England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought...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... | |
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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. 
