 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 462 pages
...Ah ! Mamma ! the four Angels round my bed a'n't afraid of catching it ! ' I suppose you know the old prayer : — ' Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ! — Four good Angels round me spread, Two at my feet and two at my head.' This jirayer I said nightly, and most... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 380 pages
...Ah ! Mamma ! the four Angels round my bed a'n't afraid of catching it !' I suppose you know the old prayer : — ' Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ! — Four good AngcU round me spread, Two at my feet and two at my head.' This prayer I said nightly, and most... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." Sometimes this variation is heard : " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ; All the four corners round about, When I get in, when I get out."] Ady, in his Candle in the Dark,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Children's stories - 1849 - 308 pages
...1656, p. 58, gives the first two lines as having been used by an old woman in the time of Queen Mary. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ! All the four corners round about, When I get in, when I get out ! The two following distiches were... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1909 - 740 pages
...equally familiar, and it is, I think, well known everywhere, varying but little in the wording : — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ; Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head ; One to sing, and one to pray, And two to carry my soul away. A picture... | |
 | Bradford Kinney Peirce - Christian biography - 1851 - 512 pages
...their children by the peasantry, are the goodly verses handed down from their popish ancestors: — " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on," &c. The degree of ignorance on all Scriptural subjects, and of dull, uninquiring irreligiousness which... | |
 | Scotland - 1851 - 856 pages
...Should a child, now-a-days, on lying down in bed, say, as children did say in our younger days — " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on," there may be grounds for fear that, should ever the Government inspectors of schools hear of it, the... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1853 - 324 pages
...woman after gabbling as fast as she could, the not uncommon Terse amongst the lower orders, of, — ' Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ; Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head,' — went offinto a string of words, in which, amongst one or two confused... | |
 | Mary Ann Kelty - 1853 - 320 pages
...woman after gabbling as fast as she could, the not uncommon verse amongst the lower orders, of, — ' Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ; Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head,' — went off into a string of words, in which, amongst one or two confused... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 758 pages
...Ah ! Mamma ! the four Angels round my bed a'n't afraid of catching it 1' I suppose you know the old prayer : — * Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on !— Four good Angels round me spread, Two at my feet and two at my head.' This prayer I said nightly, and most... | |
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away. 
