 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
 | Cora Linn Morrison Daniels - 1903 - 592 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." In Germany when the day proved foul the common people used to drag the images of St.... | |
 | H. Pomeroy Brewster - 1904 - 590 páginas
...One must suffice, a translation of a French belief, though written in old Monkish Latin : " 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 flic aloft, Then war shall vexe the kingdoms oft." In passing it may not be out of place to say that... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 366 páginas
...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...And if the winds do fly aloft, Then wars shall vex the kingdoms oft." Machyn the Diarist notices the annual procession to St. Paul's on January 25, 1557-8.... | |
 | Jennie Day Haines - 1907 - 148 páginas
...the calends of May.' 1 If the grass grows in Janiveer, It grows the worse for't all the year.' If St. Paul's Day be fair and clear, It does betide a happy year; But if it chance to snow or rain, There will be dear all kind of grain ; If clouds or mist do dark the skie, Great store of birds and... | |
 | James Murray Mackinlay - 1910 - 456 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." The connection of the apostle with the ritual of the Mediaeval Church is indicated... | |
 | 1911 - 844 páginas
...That betides a happy year. If blustering winds do blow aloft. Then wars will trouble us full oft. And if it chance to snow or rain. Then will be dear all sorts of grain. The writer looks out from his window on a great and splendid church. Few things must... | |
 | M. E. S. Wright - 1913 - 152 páginas
...Paul doth bring. Dr. Forster. ST. PAUL'S DAY. If Saint Paul's Day be fair and clear, It promises then a happy year ; But if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all sorts of grain ; Or if the wind do blow aloft, Great stirs will vex the world full oft ; And if dark... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1916 - 322 páginas
...Thrn betides a happy year; If blustering winds do blow aloft, Then wars will trouble as full oft ; And if it chance to snow or rain, Then will be dear all sorts of grain." February appears to be a month particularly rich in prophesies, most of them pointing... | |
 | Viscountess Frances Garnet Wolseley Wolseley - 1921 - 360 páginas
...with further comments shows how seriously anything which affected the crops was spoken of : " 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... | |
 | Mary Emogene Hazeltine - 1928 - 324 páginas
...weather of the whole year is set by this day. 259, 272. "II St. Paul's day be fair and dear, It doth betide a happy year; But if it chance to snow or rain. Then will be dear all kind of grain." 25 Robert Boyle. 1627-1691. British scholar and chemist, born in Ireland. 620, 780, 786. Distinguished... | |
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