... hailed thy coming on. Brave Christmas l merry Christmas I Then roared the cotters chimney loud, Then roared the hearth in palace proud, And rich and poor were gay. Oh I sons of English soil, once more Welcome brave Christmas, as of yore; The open hand ...

... to our humble history ef the Merry Christmas Holy.tide Of ail the old festivals that of Christmas excites the strongest, warmest, and dearest associations. The first foot- steps we find of.the observation of Christmas Day are in the second century, about ...

... CHRISTMAS. Glad Christmas comes, and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now; E'en Want will dry its tears in mirth, i And crown him with a holly bough. The near approach of another return of the joyous season of Christmas, reminds of our duty ...

... CHRISTMAS. Christmas day was passed very much the usual manner. The streets were alive at midnight with troops of singers and two brass bands, Shapcotts' and the Temperance bands, making night jocund, or rather early morn, to introduce this great festival ...

... constant mutations and revolutions. It is not that ,Christmas is changed, but that we are changed, and that the voisole world is changed around us. This in-coninig Christmas is no more like any past Christmas ot' our lives, than frost is liko smoke, or smoke ...

... CHRISTMAS. most interesting commemorative sera, and from the earliest time, when first the sacred light of upon the world, this period of the year has ever been devoted to joy and plea.ure. Attuis beart-rejnicing season, the annual assembling- of families ...

... CHRISTMAS. England was merry England wbcn Old Christmas brought his sports again. Christmas hroach'd the mightiest ale, Christmas told the merriest tale Christmas gambol oft would cheer The psor man's heart through half the year. Although ...

... CHRISTMAS. Now all our neighbours' chimneys smoke, And Christmas logs are burning Their ovens they with baked meat choke, And all their spits are turning. Without the door let sorrow lie ; And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury't in a Christmas pie ...

... CHRISTMAS. The preparations for celebrating this holy festival for the year of Grace 183(j, indicate no falling off the supplies, nor the aud means. Our markets 1.-ive been literally overgorged, anil the j beauties of nature —beauties far excellence have ...

... philosophy of Christmas. Amidst this extended festivity, rich with all its social joys, must beware that the claims of the poor, the fatherless, and the stranger, are not forgotten or neglected. Of little avail will the huge fire —which at Christmas the cynosure ...

... CHRISTMAS. Gentle reader—a merry Christmas to thee and, thine, and all otner comphments and enjoyments of this festive season attend thy ingoings and outcomings, thy down-sittings and We will reverse the curse of that old scold, Mother Onurch-Mayest thou ...

... CHRISTMAS. Christmas, as perhaps most people are aware, is so called from the celebration of mass the ancient English Church in OthrtfeiDoration the birth of the Saviour ; and has in ' 'all Christian countries at all times been especially devoted to ...