 | Washington Irving - Fiction - 1983 - 1198 pages
...feathery dames," was thought by the common people to announce the approach of this sacred festival: Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...are wholesome — then no planets strike, No fairy takes, no witch hath power to charm, So hallowed and so gracious is the time. Amidst the general call... | |
 | International Shakespeare Association. Congress - 1983 - 282 pages
...Marcellus, comments on the cock-crow in words which raise the convention to a wholly different plane: Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...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... | |
 | Arthur McGee - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 230 pages
...mattin rings. The Christian symbolism of the cock is underlined as Marcellus goes on: Some say that even 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth...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... | |
 | Janet Adelman - Body, Human, in literature - 1992 - 396 pages
...is banished; and Marcellus's christianizing expansion of this conjunction explicates his banishment: It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 196 pages
...erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein This present object made probation. MARCEL. It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long; 160 I, I 44 I, I The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Denmark - 1996 - 132 pages
...in earth or air, Th' extravagant and erring spirit hies To his confine; and of the truth herein 155 This present object made probation. MAR. It faded...say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Savior's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long, 160 And then, they say,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1999 - 324 pages
...spirit hies To his confine. And of the truth herein 155 This present object made probation. MARCELLUS It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say that...celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long, 160 n9ff The silent beats after Horatio's half-line exhortations in Q2 at 132 and 135 suggest an expectant... | |
 | Gene Wolfe - Fiction - 2001 - 388 pages
...Deathless" as found in Andrew Lang's The Red Fairy Book, first published in 1890.] NO PLANETS STRIKE Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...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... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - Christian drama, English - 2001 - 420 pages
...what he had previously merely "heard" (1.1.159, 160, 154). Marcellus counters with a Christian tale: Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein...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... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - Fiction - 2001 - 240 pages
...the cock. Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then,...nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm; So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. So have I heard, and... | |
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It faded on the crowing of the cock. Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, This bird of dawning singeth all night long : % And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad; The nights are wholesome; then... 
