| 1850 - 560 ページ
...household band, long sundered from the hearths round which they clustered in their early childhood, when "Each room with ivy leaves is drest, And every post with holly." I must now draw these brief and imperfect observations to a close. We have, kind reader, been spared... | |
| 1851 - 216 ページ
...they should have my presence again next 2jth of December, i653.'" MERRY CHRISTMAS. (GEORGE WITHER.) So, now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked meats choke, And all... | |
| Christmas - 1852 - 232 ページ
...should have my presence again next 'Jjth of December. I»iti3.''* MERRY CHRISTMAS. GEOKGE WITHER. O, now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man be...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke. And Christmas blocks are burning ; , Their ovens they with baked meats choke, And all... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 ページ
...either: 'Cause to be of one possess'd, Bair'd the hope of all the rest. Christmat. So now is come onr joyful'st feast ; Let every man be jolly ; Each room...leaves is drest, And every post with holly. Though fame churls at our mirth repine, Round your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine,... | |
| Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 648 ページ
...unto the angel choir, From out his secret altar touch'd with hallow'd fire. — MILTON. CHRISTMAS. So now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man be jolly, Each room with ivy leaves is drcst, And every post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Hound your foreheads garlands... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1860 - 314 ページ
...roast beef." Or you may greet him in the words of an old poet — " Now, now is come our ioyful'st feast; Let every man be jolly, Each room with ivy...with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Bound your foreheads garlands twine; Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry ! " For... | |
| William Wallace Fyfe - 1860 - 208 ページ
...with ivy leaves is drest, And ev'ry post with holly. Though some churls at our mirth repine, Bound your foreheads garlands twine, Drown sorrow in a cup of wine, And let us all be merry. 3N"ow all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with... | |
| John Camden Hotten - 1861 - 240 ページ
...by both young men and maidens — " With twenty other gambols mo, Because they would be merry."] O, now is come our joyful'st feast ; Let every man be...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked meats choke, And all... | |
| John Camden Hotten - 1861 - 214 ページ
..." With twenty other gambols mo, Because they would be merry."] O, now is come our joyful'st feast; Though some churls at our mirth repine, Round your...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked meats choke, And all... | |
| Elizabethan age - 1862 - 83 ページ
...do, I'll back restore that one, And twenty hundred thousand more for loan. GEORGE WITHER. CHRISTMAS. So now is come our joyful'st feast; Let every man...wine, And let us all be merry. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning ; Their ovens they with baked meat choke, And all... | |
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