 | William Hone - 1868 - 846 pagina’s
...carried ¡n their hands. Innumerable are these instruments found all over the British Isles. The custom is still preserved in the north, and was lately at York. On the eve of Christinas-day they carril misletoe to the high altar of the cathedral and proclaim a public and universal... | |
 | 1844 - 288 pagina’s
...hands. Innumerable are these instruments found all over the British Isles. The custom," he adds, " is still preserved in the north, and was lately at York. On the eve of Christmas-day, they carry misletoe to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal... | |
 | 1847 - 446 pagina’s
...says Stukeley, only a century ago, ' on the eve of Christmas-Day, they carry misletoe to the tiigh altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and...and even wicked people, at the gates of the city, :o\vards the four quarters of Heaven." " In the Isle of Man," relates Waldron, " on the 24th of December,... | |
 | John Brand - 1853 - 576 pagina’s
...carried in their hands. Innumerable are these instruments found all over the British isles. The custom is still preserved in the north, and was lately at York : on the eve of Christinas Day they carry MISLETOE to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 584 pagina’s
...custom," he adds, "is still preserved in the north, and was lately at York. On the eve of Christmas-day, they carry misletoe to the high altar of the Cathedral,...liberty, pardon, and freedom to all sorts of inferior or wicked people at the gates of the city towards the four quarters of heaven." In agreement with the... | |
 | Mary Botham Howitt - 1854 - 592 pagina’s
...their hands. Innumerable are these instruments, found all over the British isles. The custom," he adds, "is still preserved in the north, and was lately at York. On the eve of Christmas-day, they carry misletoe to the high altar of the Cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 pagina’s
...altars, as an emblem of the salutiferous advent of Messiah." He adds : The custom is still [.reserved in the North, and was lately at York on the eve of Christmas-day : they carry mistletoe to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and... | |
 | John Timbs - 1857 - 266 pagina’s
...laid it on their altars, as an emblem of the salutiferous advent of Messiah." He adds : The custom is still preserved in the North, and was lately at York on the eve of Christmas-day : they carry mistletoe to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1863 - 752 pagina’s
...the custom at York, on Christmas eve, to carry mistletoe to the high altar of the Cathedral, and to proclaim " a public and universal liberty, pardon,...sorts of inferior, and even wicked people, at the gate of the city toward the four quarters of heaven." Brando, however, denounces the mystic bough as... | |
 | John Kitto - 1862 - 522 pagina’s
...of the salutiferous advent of Messiah, and adds that the custom of the Druids was still in his time preserved in the north, " and was lately at York : on the eve of Christmas-day they carry mistletoe to the high altar of the cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal... | |
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The custom is still preserved in the North, and was lately at York. On the eve of Christmas-day they carry mistletoe to the high altar of the Cathedral, and proclaim a public and universal liberty, pardon, and freedom to all sorts of inferior and even... 
