 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 644 sider
...to express a detestation of lire. Mr. Oay l.as finely imitated this passage in his fourth Pa»loral. Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I cave a sweetheart's name: This with the loudest buunee me sore omaz'd, That in a uam« ol brightest... | |
 | 1816
...cannon fire, and fmoke, and bounce } He gives the baftinado with his tongue. Shakef. Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a fvveetheart's name ; This with the loudeft bounce me fore amaz'd, That in a flame of brighteft colour... | |
 | 1819
...into the fire. This last custom is beautifully described by Gay, in his ' Spell :'— Two hazel nutt I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name ; This, with the louden bounce, me sore amazed, That, in a flarae of brightest colour blazed : At blaxed the nut so... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841
...out owre the chimnic." » Gay, in the pastoral before quoted, mentions this sort of divination : " Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name; This with the londest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour hlaz'd; As blaz'd the nut so may... | |
 | People's and Howitt's journal
...mentions the same sort of divination as being practised in England in his time : — Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweetheart's name : This with tho loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour blaz'd ; As blaz'd tho nut,... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 530 sider
...according In Plrny, B. I6. chap, the latu, by its crackling noise, to express a detestation of Are. Mr. Gay has imitated this passage, in his Fourth Pastoral....hazel-nuts I threw into the flame. And to each nut I gnve a sweethenrt's name : This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 807 sider
...together, they will be married. This custom is thus described by Gay in his Spell — " Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweet-heart's name : • The quintain is mentioned in a newspaper cutting as one of the yearly sports upon Halgrave Moor,... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - 1905
...superstition reigns in Ireland. This custom is beautifully described by Gay in his " Spells:" " Two hazel nuts I threw into the flame, And to each nut I gave a sweet-heart'a name : This with the loudest bounce me sore amaz'd, That in a flame of brightest colour... | |
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I gave a fweet-heart's name. This with the loudeft bounce me fore amaz'd, That in a flame of brighteft colour blaz'd. As blaz'd the nut fo may thy paffion grow; For 'twas thy nut that did fo brightly glow. With my fharp heel I three times mark the ground,... 
