Christmas: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and VerseRobert Haven Schauffler Moffat, Yard & Company, 1912 - 325 strán (strany) |
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Alleluia angels ANONYMOUS Mark Babe beautiful Bethlehem bills of fare bird blessed born bright CAROL JAMES CHARLES DICKENS cheer chimney Christ Christ-child Christmas Bells CHRISTMAS CAROL Christmas day Christmas Eve Cratchit dear delight Dick dinner door doth eyes face feeling festival Fezziwig Fir Tree fire friends gathered glad glory good-will greet hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven heigho holidays holly King light looked Lord manger MARGARET DELAND MARY MAPES DODGE merry Christmas Minstrels and maids mirth mistletoe morning mother never Nicholas night o'er peace on earth plum-pudding poor ring round sacred Santa Claus Saviour season Second Shepherd shepherds shining Sing hey sleep smile snow solemn song sorrow sound spirit star sweet tell thee things thou thought Three Wise Men to-night unto voice WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY wind winter
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Strana 81 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so ; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow : And with your ninefold harmony, Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Strana 134 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Strana x - RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow : The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Strana 33 - Hark! The herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled...
Strana 90 - ... gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim. excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!
Strana 90 - Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that! That was the pudding!
Strana 149 - The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid, the night is still; A single church below the hill Is pealing, folded in the mist. A single peal of bells below, That wakens at this hour of rest A single murmur in the breast, That these are not the bells I know. Like strangers...
Strana 35 - Fear not," said he, for mighty dread Had seized their troubled mind ; " Glad tidings of great joy I bring To you, and all mankind.
Strana 82 - Ceremony doffed his pride. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose; The lord, underogating, share The vulgar game of 'post and pair.
Strana 48 - She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow; And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw ; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.