 | Walter Scott - Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 - 1808 - 526 pages
...! England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale ; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. Still linger in our northern clime Some remnants... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 306 pages
...bosoms half so light! England was merry Engknd, 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 The poor man's heart through half the year. Still linger, in our northern clime, Some remnants... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 596 pages
...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 The poor man's heart through half the year. Still linger, in our northern clime, Some remnants... | |
 | Walter Scott - English poetry - 1821 - 530 pages
...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 The poor man's heart through half the year. Still linger, in our northern clime, Some remnants... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1822 - 400 pages
...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 The poor man's heart through half the year. Still linger, in our northern clime, Some remnants... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1823 - 314 pages
...England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. "I'was Christmas broach "d the mightiest ale : 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year: Still linger, in our northern clime, Some remnants... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...light! England, was merry England then, And Christmas brought his sports again. Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer, The poor man's heart through half the year.' But enough of the antiquity of Christmas... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Children - 1830 - 302 pages
...storms, a sordid host, Lo ! Winter desolates the year. December 2Ath. — 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. How happy every one looks in these good Christmas... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1831 - 314 pages
...flowers, and dews, and streaming light Already decks the new-born spring. December 24//i.— 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year. How happy every one looks in these good Christmas... | |
 | William Sandys - Carols - 1833 - 370 pages
...! England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft would cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.* * Marmion, introd. to Canto vi. 8vo ed.pp. 300-303. PART... | |
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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. 
