 | 1851 - 216 pàgines
...the introduetion to the sixth canto of " Marmion." CHRISTMAS IN THE OLDEN TIME. (SIR WALTER SCOTT.) HEAP on more wood !— the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal... | |
 | Frederic Charles Cook - 1851 - 118 pàgines
...vengeance due; Empire is on us bestow'd, Shame and ruin wait for you. COWPER. ON CHRISTMAS. Heap on the wood ! the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We 'l1 keep our merry Christmas still. And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 594 pàgines
...INTRODUCTION TO CANTO SIXTH, HEAP on more wood — the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed...yet, the savage Dane At lol more deep the mead did dram ; High on the beach his galleys drew, And feasted all his pirate crew ; Then in his low and pine-... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 236 pàgines
...SIB WALTER SCOTT. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed...the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer. And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had rolled, And brought blithe Christmas... | |
 | Christmas - 1852 - 232 pàgines
...*. . \ .* ^-vC-^' ' C '*.- - - \' "" "> '. •— . ' CHRISTMAS ES THE OLDEN TIME: SIR WALTER SCOTT. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas mem- still. Each age has deemed the ncw-born year The fittest time for festal... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 pàgines
...Bacchus." We conclude with the good staunch words of Walter Scott : — 500 CHRISTMAS AND THE POETS. " HEAP on more wood ; the wind is chill ; But let it...as it will We '11 keep our Christmas merry still, о о о о о And well our Christian sires of old Loved, when the year its course had roll'd, And... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1854 - 740 pàgines
...large painted lanterns, in the construction of which they excel all nations in beauty and ingenuity. " Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer — In China, sa well as elsewhere." On the 26th of February, 1845, while walking through the streets... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 652 pàgines
...Charles II. the use of coal in London became universal. 120 THE HOME FRIEND. ON CHRISTMAS. HEAP on the wood ! the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our merry Christmas still. And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1855 - 786 pàgines
...poetry. Heap on' | more wood' ! j the wind' | is chill' ; But let' | it whis'|tle as' | it will', We'll keep' | our Christ'|mas mer'|ry still' : Each age'...new'|-born year' The fit'|test time' | for fes'|tal cheer' ! — SCOTT. Here every other syllable is accented, and every other syllable unaccented. When we understand... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1855 - 590 pàgines
...against the dawning day. INTRODUCTION TO CANTO SIXTH. TO RICHARD HEBER, ESQ. Mertoun House, Chriitmat. HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deem'd the new-born year The fittest time for festal... | |
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HEAP on more wood ! — the wind is chill ; But let it whistle as it will, We '11 keep our Christmas merry still. Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer : Even, heathen yet, the savage Dane At lol more deep the mead did... 
