| Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1879 - 300 páginas
...to be possessed by hazel-nuts burnt on All-Hallows eve, as described by Gray : — " Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name. This, with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That with a flame of brightest colour blazed. As blazed the nut, so... | |
| William Andrews - 1880 - 342 páginas
...themselves easy as to their settling in life. The poet, Gay, thus refers to the custom : — Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of tightest colour blazed, As blazed the nut, so may... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1882 - 638 páginas
...at any rate of those superstitious merry-makings was familiar in England, as thus : Two hazel nute I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name. This with the loudest bounc'e me sore amazed, That with a Яaтe of brightest colour blazed. As blazed the nut, кo... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 páginas
...and Love. With my sharp heel I three times mark the grosii And turn mo thrice around, around, around. Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name . This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of brightest colour blazed. As blazed tho nut, so may... | |
| Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 páginas
...(October 3 1st) were known and practised in England, as thus — " Two Hazel-nuts I threw into the 0ame, And to each Nut I gave a sweetheart's name. This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That with a flame of brightest colour blazed. As blazed the Nut, so... | |
| John Gay - 1893 - 384 páginas
...Love. With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around. 60 Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name. This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of brightest colour blazed.1 As blazed the nut so may... | |
| 1894 - 740 páginas
...practice prevailing aleo in England, as Gay has described : Two hazel nuts I threw into the вате, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a Same of brightest colour blazed. As blazed the nut, so may... | |
| Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1895 - 368 páginas
...Love. ' With my sharp heel I three times mark the ground, And turn me thrice around, around, around.' ' Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name; This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed That in a flame of brightest colour blazed. As blazed the nut, so may... | |
| 1897 - 1030 páginas
...To see't that night. Gay has also some pretty lines about a girl who proved her lover in this way : Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of brightest color blazed ; As blazed the nut, so may... | |
| Samuel Adams Drake - 1900 - 288 páginas
...differently, but it is not our affair to reconcile conflicting presages. He sings : — " Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name, This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed, That in a flame of brightest color blazed : As blazed the nut so may... | |
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