| Frederick John Shore - 1837 - 562 σελίδες
...as they were setting out. The rhyme is as follows, — I dare say familiar to many of my readers : One for sorrow — two for mirth, Three for a wedding — four for a birth. In many parts of England, and indeed not many miles from London, I firmly believe, that were any one... | |
| John Brand - 1842 - 306 σελίδες
...Magatipie, and the import of the augury is determined by the number of the hirds that are seen together : " One for sorrow ; two for mirth; three for a wedding; four for death." Mr. Park, in a note in his copy of Bourne and Brand's " Popular Antiquities," p. 88, says that... | |
| 1887 - 678 σελίδες
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| 1852 - 672 σελίδες
...year. The magpie is a well-known bird of omen. The following lines were familiar when I was a boy : " One for sorrow, two for mirth, Three for a wedding, four for death ; Five for a fiddle, six for a dance, Seven for England, eight for France." TD Lambs. — The... | |
| 1855 - 558 σελίδες
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| Edwin Lees - 1856 - 358 σελίδες
...— ' Rusticus in luna quem sarcina deprimit una, Monstrat per spinas nulli prodesse rapinas.' " " One for sorrow, Two for mirth ; Three for a wedding, Four for a birth."* It is well known that the pagan priests in heathen times predicted good or evil events from the appearance... | |
| Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1868 - 592 σελίδες
...church, but I hardly believe it. That they are birds of omen is well known, witness the old rhyme : One for sorrow, two for mirth ; Three for a wedding, four for a birth. Another bit of folk-lore relates to housemartins, and to old bachelors, whose houses are said to be... | |
| P.P. - London. - Notes and Queries - 1859 - 386 σελίδες
...year. The magpie is a well-known bird of omen. The following lines were familiar when I was a boy : " One for sorrow, two for mirth, Three for a wedding, four for death ; Five for a fiddle, six for a dance, Seven for England, eight for France." TD OMENS FROM BIRDS.... | |
| Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1861 - 388 σελίδες
...the arrival of good news. So says our prose version ; but the poetical narrative runs thus : — " One for sorrow ; two for mirth ; " Three for a wedding ; four for a birth." We still dislike the moaning of owls and the croaking of ravens, as much as the Romans did of old ;... | |
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