 Paul's Day be fair and clear. It does betide a happy year; But if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain: If clouds or mists do dark the skie, Great store of birds and beasts shall die; And if the winds do fly aloft, Then wars...  Notes and Queries - Página 651904Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | One who knows (pseud.) - 1877 - 362 páginas
...in the following lines : — It St. Paul's day be fair and clear, It does betido a happy year; Bnt if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain; If clouds or mists do dark the sky, Great storo of birds and beasts shall die ; And... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1883 - 862 páginas
...into verse in French and English are met with ; the following is one of the English versions : ' If St Paul's day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy...of birds and beasts shall die ; And if the winds do flie aloft, Then war shall vexe the kingdome oft. ' Other days in the month of January enjoyed at different... | |
 | Sir Walter Besant, James Rice - 1881 - 244 páginas
...practised little divinations to find who would be their husbands — St. Paul's Dayman. 25)— " If St. Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy year" — all fell in this month, and brought amusements and feasting with them. In time of frost the lads... | |
 | Walter Besant, James Rice - 1881 - 300 páginas
...practised little divinations to find who would be their husbands — St. Paul's Day (Jan. 25)— " If St. Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy year" — all fell in this month, and brought amusements and feasting with them. In time of frost the lads... | |
 | Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen - 1881 - 690 páginas
...a happy yearj If blustering winds do blow aloft, 'flien wars will trouble onr realm f uil oft; And if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all sorts of grain". Bonrne, //Antiquities of the Common People". en steekt ze daarop vast in den deurstijl... | |
 | 1888 - 636 páginas
...mortality among cattle ; winds, the forerunner of war. Tneir beliefs in verse were thus rendered : If Saint Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy...if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain ; If clouds or mists do dark the skie, Great store of birds and boastes shall die ;... | |
 | 1888 - 646 páginas
...betide a happy year ; If blustering winds do blow aloft, Then wars will trouble our realm full oft ; And if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all sorts of grain. Returning to our subject, we note that Augustus, the Roman Emperor, was terribly afraid... | |
 | 1888 - 770 páginas
...mortality among cattle ; winds, the torerunner of war. Taeir beliefs in verse were thus rendered : If Saint Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy year ; Bat if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain ; If clouds or mUts do dark... | |
 | William Hone - 1888 - 876 páginas
...to ?now or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain: If clouds or mists do dark the skie, (treat store of birds and beasts shall die ; And if the winds do flyaluft, I lien wars shall vex the kingdnme oft. t Nature's Sfcrtt.4, These prognostications are Englished... | |
 | Arthur William Moore - 1891 - 224 páginas
...animalia queeqiie ; Sifiant venti, designat preclia genti. An English version of which is : — If St Paul's day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy...if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain ; If clouds or mists do dark the skie, Great store of birds and beasts shall die ; And... | |
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