... CHRISTMAS. BY ROBERT ROBB, TUB BARD OF COLOUR, AND LAUREATE OP THE WESTERN ISLES. OLD Christmas once more visits us with frozen mien of grace, His steps o'er country and through town how cheerily we trace; What feelings now of festive glee are bounding ...

... CHRISTMAS. merry Christmas. * is common salutation, and surely ever, since the expulsion of Adam from Paradise, there was an occasion for “great joy” among “all people,” it was at the birth of Him who came to convert the curse upon our first parents, ...

... CHRISTMAS. Mid thus, as in memory's bark, we shall glide To visit the scenes of our childhood anew 'Though oft we may see, looking down on the tide, The wreck of full many a hope shining through. CHRISTMAS-DAY is either the most happy or the mournful ...

... CHRISTMAS. THE 3.IARK ETS : PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. CHRISTMAS is always a happy time, and, being so, we would it came oftener than once a year. For the occasion old age seems to forget its years, the sick their ailments, and even the gloom occasioned by months ...

... CHRISTMAS. In alluding to the festivities of Christmas, contend that while is the duty of every Cbnsl'so lo engage in acts of pntlie and private devotioo, yet, while due atteotioo is paid to religious observances, it would be pity to see the good old ...

... CHRISTMAS Christmas is so intimately associated in onr nines witb inclement weather — not to say ice aud snow — thai mildness is almost necessarily re- garded as unseasonable. At present, however, and for some weeks past, the air bas been soft and mild ...

... heart outh will palpitate with love and joy; and For fair dames and gentlemen will resound through the glorious halls ! Christmas is, intruth, that especial season when friends and lovers assemble to renew—or, as a quaint old poet hrases it, to “redintegrate” ...

... CHRISTMAS. ! ., -.1 - . . ., . , I m F (From the Illuminoted Magazine.) Now do the ipells of home revive in their ancient weight, within the breasts of maby and many a household band, long sundered from thb hearths round which they clustered in their ...

... CHRISTMAS. Ah, ah! men v Christmas ervroing With his holly-crowned head and his joyous face; A mantie snow mayhap he’ll wear. And icicles pend from bis flowing hair-- Tut his bonny bright smiles will the cold dispel From every heart here he’s welcomed ...

... I1 CHRISTMAS. CAxvoas.-Carol is said to be' deoived from Cantare, to sing, and rola, an interjection of joy. Tihe song of tbe angels wss the first carol, and anciently bishops carolled among their clergy at Christmas. An old shect of Christ- mas Carols ...

... 1849. I~ - ?? ?? ?? ?? -- ?? ?? -. I. .I ?? . . .. . . .. ?? ?? ,, ?? ! ,I I I - CHRISTMAS. ,,;0 . I il l . - I I 11 . I . : ;, . , ?? , , I The return of Christmas, with its ostentatious display of enticing eates for the epicure-its tasteful avray: ...

... CHRISTMAS Before the glorious remembrance* of the present season, how trivial seem the occurrences of political life. What is the strongest party that ever ruled State, —the greatest political triumph upon record, the most perfect law that human ingenuity ...