...they'll come down by the rills. Winter's thunder, and summer's flood, Never boded Englishman good. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight : If on Candlemas Day it be shower and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. If St. Paul's...

...metrical proverb, frequently quoted in Poor Robin's, Moore's, and other Almanacks, reminds us : — If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. This adage seems, in part, to be a free...

...proverbs related in the subsequent part of this work. We have all heard from our infancy the adage, " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight;" and I find by examining journals that this is generally correct. Candlemas eve, being recorded, during...

...another of these irrational inferences from the weather of one day to that of a distant period : 1 If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight : But if Candlemas day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again.' A few of these notions are still prevalent...

...day be bright and cleare, It doih betide a happy yeare," &c. And the other on Candlemas day : — " If Candlemas day be fair and bright. Winter will have another flight : Bat if Candlemas day be cloud! and rain, Winter le gone, and will not come again." We cannot for...

...glacies post festum qtiam ante fuit." Which is popularised in the not uncommon English lines : — " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day brings clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." Candlemas Day, 1867, was remarkably...

...Almanacs did not neglect this day: one of them BOOK thus partly imitates the proverb : — Caintfrma* " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright • Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day be clonds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." There is a humorous proverb in Ray's collection,...

...Almanaes did not neglect this day: one of them BOOK thus partly imitates the proverb : — Candlemat " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gonc and will not come again." There is a humorous proverb in Ray's collection,...

...louring, a mild and gentle season ensuing." To the same effect is the old prediction — " If Candlemai day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if Candlemas day be clouds and rain. Winter is gone, and will not come again." Very similar is the ancient Latin distich...

...cold for the next six weeks or two months, that it has given rise to several proverbs, especially, If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight. Dr Forster states that he had consulted several journals of weather, which satisfied him that this...