 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 páginas
...together, they will be married. This custom is thus described by Gay in his Spell — " Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweet-heart's name : • The quintain is mentioned in a newspaper cutting as one of the yearly sports upon Halgrave Moor,... | |
 | Cora Linn Morrison Daniels - 1903 - 592 páginas
...himself seated in close contact, and if he was engaged in any work, the phantom was doing the same. 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... | |
 | Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton - 1903 - 420 páginas
...unsound, While . . . sticks flrmly to the last ; Oh ! were his lips to mine butjoin'd so fast ! " " 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 amaz'd, That in aflame of brightest colour blaz'd ; As blaz'd the nut, so may... | |
 | Vincent Stuckey Lean - 1903 - 506 páginas
...a sign their friend or lover remembers them : the contrary if they be quiet. — Ib. 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... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 páginas
...the Pharmaceutria of Theocritus and Virgil to the superstitious spells of the Devonian Hobnelia :— 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... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - 1905 - 354 páginas
...superstition reigns in Ireland. This custom is beautifully described by Gay in his " Spells:" " Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweet-heart'a name : This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour... | |
 | 1906 - 432 páginas
...flourish in the plain; I flung the unbroken paring o'er my head; Upon the grass a perfect L was made. Two hazelnuts 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. So may thy passion grow,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 páginas
..."Love." With my sharp heel I three time's 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. As blazed the nut so may... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 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. As blazed the nut so may... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1909 - 566 páginas
...course and the issue of the courtship will be.' Gay has also written of the same custom in The Spell : 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... | |
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Two Hazel-Nuts I threw into the Flame, And to each Nut I gave a Sweet-heart's Name. This with the loudest Bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a Flame of brightest Colour blaz'd. As blaz'd the Nut so may thy Passion grow, For 'twas thy Nut that did so brightly... 
