The Book of Christmas: Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas SeasonWiley & Putnam, 1845 - 220 من الصفحات |
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... beauty fading fast Its silent trace appears ; And where a phantom of the past , Dim in the mist of years- Gleams Tadmor o'er oblivion's waves , Like wrecks above their ocean - graves . " Before the ceaseless shade That round the world ...
... beauty fading fast Its silent trace appears ; And where a phantom of the past , Dim in the mist of years- Gleams Tadmor o'er oblivion's waves , Like wrecks above their ocean - graves . " Before the ceaseless shade That round the world ...
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... beauty , and some of its virtues . If the old festivals and hearty commemorations , in which our land was once so abundant , —and which obtained for her , many a long day since , the name of merry England , " had no other recommendation ...
... beauty , and some of its virtues . If the old festivals and hearty commemorations , in which our land was once so abundant , —and which obtained for her , many a long day since , the name of merry England , " had no other recommendation ...
الصفحة 13
... beauty , moral or picturesque , is an antiquarian of the beneficent kind ; and he who assists in restoring observances which had a direct tendency to propagate a feeling of brotherhood and a spirit of benevolence , is a higher ...
... beauty , moral or picturesque , is an antiquarian of the beneficent kind ; and he who assists in restoring observances which had a direct tendency to propagate a feeling of brotherhood and a spirit of benevolence , is a higher ...
الصفحة 83
... beauty of this arrangement increased , by the sacred season at which it has been placed ! Under the sanctions of religion , the covenants of the heart are renewed . Upon the altars of our faith , the lamps of the spirit are rekindled ...
... beauty of this arrangement increased , by the sacred season at which it has been placed ! Under the sanctions of religion , the covenants of the heart are renewed . Upon the altars of our faith , the lamps of the spirit are rekindled ...
الصفحة 91
... beauty ; -nor even entirely divested of all its summer indications of a living loveliness , or all sugges- tions of an eternal hope . Not only hath it the peculiar beauties of old age ; but it hath besides lingering traces of that beauty ...
... beauty ; -nor even entirely divested of all its summer indications of a living loveliness , or all sugges- tions of an eternal hope . Not only hath it the peculiar beauties of old age ; but it hath besides lingering traces of that beauty ...
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الصفحة 122 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray; What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
الصفحة 177 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
الصفحة 32 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. " Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still ; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
الصفحة 106 - And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David : Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord : Hosanna in the highest...
الصفحة 37 - Twas Edwin's self tha't pressed! "Turn, Angelina, ever dear, My charmer, turn to see Thy own, thy long-lost Edwin here, Restored to love and thee. " Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign : And shall we never, never part. My life — my all that's mine? " No, never from this hour to part, We'll live and love so true, The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too.
الصفحة 161 - 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 strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.
الصفحة 77 - Good people all of every sort, Give ear unto my song, 'And if you find it wondrous short It cannot hold you long. In Islington there was a man, Of whom the world might say. That still a godly race he ran Whene'er he went to pray. A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes ; The naked every day he clad, When he put on his clothes. And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.
الصفحة 105 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
الصفحة 66 - ... post and pair.' All hailed, with uncontrolled delight And general voice, the happy night, That to the cottage, as the crown, Brought tidings of salvation down. The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide ; The huge hall-table's oaken face, Scrubbed till it shone, the day to grace, Bore then upon its massive board No mark to part the squire and lord. Then was brought in the lusty brawn By old blue-coated serving-man ; Then the grim boar's-head frowned on high, Crested...
الصفحة 32 - TURN, gentle Hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. " For here forlorn and lost I tread, With fainting steps and slow; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lengthening as I go." " Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, " To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom.