 | Andrew M. Greeley - Fiction - 2002 - 142 pages
...season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch has power to charm So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. " "What a lovely poem! Is it Russian?"... | |
 | K. H. Anthol - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 344 pages
...celebrated. The bird of dawning singeth all night long; 160 And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets...[takes], nor witch hath power to charm. So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. Hor. So have I heard and do in part believe it. But, look, the morn, in russet... | |
 | Cora Linn Daniels, C. M. Stevans - Reference - 2003 - 592 pages
...celebrated, The bird of dawning (the cock) singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets...takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time." (Shakespeare, Hamlet, i., I.) In Russia, during Christmas tide young girls... | |
 | Arthur F. Kinney - Meaning (Philosophy) in literature - 2004 - 196 pages
...birth is celebrated The bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad, The nights are wholesome; then no planets...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. (1.1.128-45) For the Catholic Capulet in Verona, however, the... | |
 | Michael Judge - Astronomy - 2004 - 276 pages
...ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our savior's birth is celebrated The bird of dawning singeth all night long. And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad. The nights are wholesome, and then no planets strike, No fairy takes nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious... | |
 | Rémi Brague - Philosophy - 2004 - 316 pages
...found again in Shakespeare: the birth of Jesus stripped magic of its efficacy. Around Christmastide: "No planets strike, / No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm." 14 THEOLOGICAL HEIGHTENING The entrance of the revealed religions into the sphere of ancient thought... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2005 - 900 pages
...birth is celebrated This bird of dawning singeth all night long, 160 And then they say no spirit dare stir abroad, The nights are wholesome, then no planets...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed, and so gracious is that time. HORATIO So have I heard and do in part believe it. But look,... | |
 | Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels - History - 2005 - 312 pages
...birth is celebrated This bird of dawning singeth all night long; And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad, The nights are wholesome; then no planets...No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. (1.1.138-145) 'Some say', 'they say ...'. Again we are dealing... | |
 | Michael T. Hayes - Church year sermons - 2006 - 228 pages
...birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets...takes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. — William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 2 The world gets older and older... | |
 | Franz Michael Maier - Aesthetics - 2006 - 342 pages
...birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long. And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike; No fairy takes; nor witch hath power to charm.46 Beckett wollte, daß Eva Katharina Schultz, die Winnie der Berliner Inszenierung von 1971,... | |
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gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The 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... 
