 | 1864 - 108 páginas
...cheeks the visors made ; But, 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. <£|)ristas <&owfs but (Dita <t gtsr. (THOMAS MILLER.) THOSE Christmas bells so sweetly chime, As on... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1865 - 424 páginas
...smutted cheeks the visors made ; But, 0 ! 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 ; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could... | |
 | Penny readings - 1866 - 304 páginas
...! England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports a gen ! 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale ; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest...could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year ! THE SPARTAN LAD. REV. D H. GEOROE ASPINALL. THE Grecian mother took the shield, Her features stern... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 1204 páginas
...Knj;l;ind wan merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest...could cheer The poor man's heart through half the Some remnants of the good old tin And still, within our valleys here, We hold the kindred title dear.... | |
 | 1866 - 454 páginas
...England was merry England then ; Old Christmas brought his sports again ; 'Twos Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale ; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft would cheer A poor man's heart through half the year." The custom of decking the houses and churches... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1866 - 656 páginas
...cheeks the visors made ; But, О ! 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; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1866 - 792 páginas
...England, when Old Christmas brought nis sports again. 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest alo; 'Twos Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor num's heart through hall the year. Still linger in our northern clime, Some remnants of the good old... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 160 páginas
...cheeks the visors made ; But, oh ! what masquers, richly dight, Can boast of bosoms half so light ! England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought...could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year " It has been supposed that the mince-pies and plum-puddings — without which no Christinas board... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1874 - 674 páginas
...Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." TI-SMZK (1520— IfiSO). " England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought...cheer The poor man's heart through half the year." SCOTT. THE house of a Yorkshire yeoman as it existed from thirty to fifty years ago is quickly, through... | |
 | Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club - 1907 - 412 páginas
...of Christmas-tide, in the introduction to the sixth Canto of Marmion, ever hangs on the memory: — England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought...Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft would cheer 340 Oa Christmas eve the bells were rung ; On Christmas eve the mass was sung. The damsel... | |
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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. 
