 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1882 - 586 pàgines
...lately. And of this hydden treasure the rhyming proverbe here quoted goes commonly and anciently. — R. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight : if on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, ill winter is gone, and will not come again. The same... | |
 | Charles Leeson Prince - 1886 - 318 pàgines
...the penalty in the succeeding eleven days of wintry weather, thus verifying the old proverb — " 1f Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." Some beautiful snow crystals fell on the 8th. The coldest morning was the 12th, when the temperature... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1887 - 630 pàgines
...Henley. 4686. Si sol splendescat Maria purificante Major erit glacies post festum quam fuit ante. (L.) If Candlemas day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight. 4687. Siste nioclum, dixit, ñeque enim fortuna querenda Sola tua est : similes aliorum réspice casus,... | |
 | 1888 - 272 pàgines
...traveler on his way ; But an evening gray and a morning red, Will pour down rain on a pilgrim's head. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if Candlemas day be cloudy, and rain, Winter has gone not to come again. If the cock goes crowing to bed, He'lJ certainly... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 590 pàgines
...hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas Day should be pleasant and clear. BK. 23. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. — BD. i. 104. Or— ... on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain, 1ll winter is gone, etc. — BC.... | |
 | G. F. Northall - 1892 - 584 pàgines
...hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas Day should be pleasant and clear. BK. 23. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again.—BD. i. 104. Or— ... on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain, 1ll winter is gone, etc.—BC.... | |
 | 1892 - 588 pàgines
...hind had as lief see his wife on the bier, As that Candlemas Day should be pleasant and clear. BK. 23. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...flight ; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Or— ... on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain, 1ll winter is gone, etc. — BC. 226. If Candlemas... | |
 | William Ralston Balch - 1895 - 836 pàgines
...prediction in former years, is elevated or depressed as the weather may be propitious or otherwise : " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...and rain. Winter is gone, and will not come again. 3. St. Blaise, Bishop of Sebaste, in Armenia, suffered martyrdom, AD 116. He was cruelly tortured,... | |
 | 1896 - 454 pàgines
...Candlemas day be wet and foul, The half o' winter's gane at Yule. The English versions are as follows — If Candlemas day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight ; If on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, ill winter is gone, and will not come again. Also —... | |
 | 1896 - 300 pàgines
...people's lives are those when they are (perhaps unconsciously) expecting something.— FF Montressor. If Candlemas day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight; if on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, winter is gone, and will not come again. Original in GOOD... | |
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If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. 
