...no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome: then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time.—Shakspeare. CONTBACTED SENTENCES. Sentences are contracted by ellipsis, abridgment, or by substituting...

...blast; to bewitch; to go into; to leap ; to strike ; to captivate ; to believe ; to be convinced. Then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm. Hamlet, i. 1. Strike her young bones, Yon taking airs, with lameness ! King Lear, ii. 4. And takes...

..." no spirit can walk abroad. The nights are wholesome ; then no planet strikes, no fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, so hallowed, and so gracious is the time." We do not wonder that they so thought in those days, when the true light was so obscured by error,...

...no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Act i. Sc. i. The head is not more native to the heart. Act i. Sc. 2. A little more than kin, and less...

...say, no spirit stirs abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time." The Puritans were :greatly opposed to the observance of the day, and in 1659 the following law was...

...no spirit can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time." Hamlet, Act I., Sc. 1. BUSTLE seems to be the characteristic of christmas eve, at least as I saw it...

...no spirit dares stir abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time." A belief still lingers in some quarters that at midnight on Christmas Eve the cattle in their stalls...

...no spirit can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time." Hamlet, Act /., Sc. I. BUSTLE seems to be the characteristic of christmas eve, at least as I saw it...

...no spirit can walk about — The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm ; So hallowed, and so gracious is the time ! " And yet, in spite of such high authority, I was half disposed to think that the vision was a trick...

...no spirit can walk abroad ; The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Hor. So have I heard, and do in part believe it." Some of us who feel a pride in laughing at the tales...