 | Caroline Hubbard Bailey - 1921 - 48 pages
...and proverbs originate in Tusser or were recast by him. "Seek home for rest, for home is the best." "At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." One of the foundation books on agriculture. Tusser, Thomas Five hundred points of Good Husbandry... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany-Tree. THACKERAY — The Mahogany-Tree. 10 ver lies. HOMER— Odyssey. Bk. III. L. 25. POPE'S trans, e a year. TUSSER — Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Ch. XII. CSee also MACFAKREN) 11 The sun... | |
 | Basil Hargrave - 1925 - 392 pages
...Thomas Tupper (1523-1580) makes use of it in his " Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry " : — " At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." Cider. If the derivation of its name be any guide to the quality of an article, cider should... | |
 | 1929 - 506 pages
...everything, it doesn't show so much love." Carol Bird. A FEW HOLIDAY PLAYS AND PAGEANTS FOR CHILDREN "At Christmas play and make good cheer. For Christmas comes but once a year." LITTLE PLAYS FOR CHRISTMAS. Ada Clark and others. Chicago, Beckley-Cardy Co., 1928. 132 p.... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1913 - 630 pages
...hands) If he could talk to you and me, How very funny it would be! (hold right hand to ear, listening) At Christmas, play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. — Truster "What means that star," the shepherds said, "That brightens through the rocky glen?"... | |
 | 1926 - 780 pages
...a song-bird like you have a broken wing?" GK Gokhale. BUT ONCE A YEAR, by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. "At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." Tusser, Five hundred points of good husbandry, AD 1570. THE GOLDEN KEY, by Henry Van Dyke.... | |
 | 1914 - 666 pages
...steps to stray, Where Dryads trip And Satyrs skip Upon the pipes o' Pan to play ! A Colonial Christmas At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. — Old Rhyme. HE celebration of Christmas is world-wide; the manner of celebration varies... | |
 | Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 178 pages
...bard and sage, Here's to your health — may all be bright On this so special Christmas night. • "At Christmas play and make good cheer For Christmas comes but once a year." — Thomas Turner • Here's to the holly with its bright red berry. Here's to Christmas,... | |
 | Martha Finley - 1996 - 354 pages
...fifty cents the most. Papa has given us each ten dollars besides our regular allowance." CHAPTER " At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year." TUSSEB. THE morning of the twenty-fourth found Grace almost too ill, with a heavy cold, to... | |
 | Mary Daniels - 1996 - 100 pages
...speed The beauty of this world, that so I may With joy and courtesy go on my way. A Farmer's Grace Anon At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser (1515-1580), from The Farmer's Daily Diet vv A Sinner's Grace May we who are... | |
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At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. 
