 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...caught his mare. FOURTH CLASS— PROVERBS. • •mi.fLXXX. T. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain, •vrr For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair, To make your candles last for a', Yon wives and maids give ear-o ! LXXXI. I AX XII. IP wishes... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...sending torrents of rain, lasting as many days as the original Flood, which gave rise to the saying : " St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain," which Gay has put more elegantly in his " Trivia : " " How, if on Swithin's feast the welkin lours,... | |
 | Société académique de Brest - 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...même influence que nous sur l'atmosphère. C'est saint Swithin. Voici leur proverbe populaire : Saint Swithin's day if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain ; Saint Swithin's day if thou be fair For forty days'l will rain no mair. Autrement dit, pour la plus... | |
 | 1887 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...same effect, says : Saint Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days this will remain ; Saint Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair. The old superstition has been shown over and over again to be false ; but still it lingers, and... | |
 | William Hone - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 876
...Kr. Brand, from a memorandum by Mr. Douce: " I have heard these lines upon St. Swithin's day : — " St. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days...: St. Swithin's day if thou be fair For forty days Ч will rain na mair. Ben Jonson, in " Every man out of his humour," has a touch at almanac-wisdom,... | |
 | C. A. Montrésor - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...that the superstition arose, which has been embodied in the following lines : — St. Swithin's clay, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain ;...day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair. St. Boniface is another English saint ; his original name was Winfred, and he was a native of... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...Day if ye be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nee mair. — BJ. iv. ST. SWITHIN'S DAY. (15th July.) St. Swithin's Day if thou dost rain, For forty days...Day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair. — BD. i. 478. Or— If St. Swithin weep, that year, the proverb says, The weather will be foul... | |
 | 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...Day if ye be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nee mair. — BJ. iv. ST. SWITHIN'S DAY. (15th July.) St. Swithin's Day if thou dost rain, For forty days...it will remain ; St. Swithin's Day if thou be fair, Or— If St. Swithin weep, that year, the proverb says, The weather will be foul for forty days. —... | |
 | 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...reliable) about the origin of St. Swithin's Day. We all know the old rhyme : " St. Swithin's Day, if them dost rain. For forty days it will remain ; St. Swithin's Day, if Ihou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nac niair." Well, the account which passed current for many... | |
 | 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 658
...days are also very numerous. The legend of St. S within is an example that will occur to everyone : St. Swithin's Day if thou dost rain, For forty days...Swithin's Day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae mair. St. Swithin, Bishop of Winchester, according to the author of " The Popular Antiquities,"... | |
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ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair. 
