Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds,... The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review - Page 3541891Full view - About this book
| 1837 - 1322 pages
...house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; The...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads; And mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a... | |
| Children's periodicals - 1838 - 448 pages
...house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; The...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads j And rnamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas* soon would be there. The children...in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap ; When out on the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was... | |
| American literature - 1837 - 660 pages
...house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; The...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had jusi settled our brains for... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman - American literature - 1837 - 278 pages
...the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for... | |
| Animals - 1839 - 204 pages
...house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The...in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1840 - 328 pages
...house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; The...in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 302 pages
...Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse : The stockings were hung by flie chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; The...in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a... | |
| John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 304 pages
...chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there ; A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS. 103 The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugarplums danced through their heads ; And mamma in her 'kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our "brains for... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hope that St. Nicholas* soon would be there. The children...in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap ; When out on the lawn there rose such a clatter, I sprang from the bed to see what was... | |
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