 Dr. Chandler tells us, in his Travels in Greece, that it is related, where Druidism prevailed the houses were decked with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder...  The New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Página 53Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 páginas
...with evergreens in December, that the Sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped will) t he should find ease in a short lime darling abodes." f The morning of the Nativity was ushered in with the chaunting of Christinas Carols,... | |
 | Thomas Kibble Hervey - 1845 - 436 páginas
...with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." In England, the practice, whencesoever derived, has existed from the very earliest... | |
 | Anne Joseph Eusèbe Baconnière-Salverte - 1846 - 412 páginas
...originally intended as an inducement for the Sylvan spirits to " repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes. ""—BD. • Brand on Bourne's Antiquities, p. 193, far less remote from that of their... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1846 - 548 páginas
...evergreens during winter, " that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." The earliest record of this custom in England, perhaps, is in a carol in praise of... | |
 | George Newenham Wright, Charles Henry Timperley - 1845 - 276 páginas
...churches with evergreens, evidently a heathen practice. " Houses were decked with evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped by frost and wind, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abode." Yule-tide, the winter... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1847 - 216 páginas
...times of the Druids, houses were decked with boughs, " that the sylvan spirits might repair thither, and remain unnipped by frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." It is rather difficult to conceive what must have been the ideas of the Druids respecting... | |
 | Eusèbe Salverte - 1847 - 346 páginas
...originally intended as an inducement for the sylvan spirits to "repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes."*— ED. * See Dulaure, Histoire de Paris, 1st edition, vol. v., p. 259; and also Carpentier,... | |
 | John Brand - 1849 - 574 páginas
...mth evergreens in December, that the sylvan spirits might repair to them, and remain unnipped with frost and cold winds', until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes. Stow, in his Survey of London, says that " against the feast of Christmas every man's... | |
 | 1853 - 428 páginas
...times of these priests, houses were decked with boughs, " that the sylvan spirits might repair thither, and remain unnipped by frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." It was formerly an article of belief that, unknown before, the holly sprung up in... | |
 | 1853 - 422 páginas
...times of these priests, houses were decked with boughs, " that the sylvan spirits might repair thither, and remain unnipped by frost and cold winds, until a milder season had renewed the foliage of their darling abodes." It was formerly an article of belief that, unknown before, the holly sprung up in... | |
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