Twelfth

And that, upon that day which we call Twelfth day, we commemorate the manifestation of the unsearchable riches of Jesus to the Gentiles: and that day we also celebrate the memory of his goodness in sending a star to guide the three wise men from the east to Bethlehem, that they might there worship, and present him with their oblation of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

The Life of Mr. George Herbert. Paras. 50-99 1909

And that, upon that day which we call Twelfth-day, we commemorate the manifestation of the unsearchable riches of Jesus to the Gentiles: and that that day we also celebrate the memory of his goodness in sending a star to guide the three Wise Men from the East to Bethlehem, that they might there worship, and present him with their oblations of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898

And that, upon that day which we call Twelfth-day, we commemorate the manifestation of the unsearchable riches of Jesus to the Gentiles: and that that day we also celebrate the memory of his goodness in sending a star to guide the three Wise Men from the East to Bethlehem, that they might there worship, and present him with their oblations of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C, Volume 2 Izaak Walton 1638

There are plenty of sex jokes and in Twelfth Night but if Viola is making one here it's the only one she makes in the whole play.

Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax? 2009

You may catch glimpses of the Iliad and Cave of the Golden Rose here. castusalbuscor and nova_one might recognize certain Twelfth Night-esque ideas in here, too.

Fiction: All the Good Soldiers fantasyecho 2007

Note 173: This ambivalence toward women parallels the findings of Penny Schine Gold, The Lady and the Virgin: Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France (Chicago, 1985), esp.chap. 1, "Secular Image: Women in Chansons de Geste and Romance." back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

The clash between Blakean and Wordsworthian perspectives in "Twelfth Morning," then, is not undecidable.

Elizabeth Bishop and the Wordsworth of _Lyrical Ballads_: Sentimentalism, Straw Men, and Misprision 1999

You remember Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night who declared that to learn foreign languages was a waste of time when there were so many bears to bait.

The Art of Living 1935

The inn at which we put up is like the song in "Twelfth Night," "old and plain" – and when lunch is done, our Colonel goes to pay an official call at Headquarters, and my daughter and I make our way to the historic church of the town.

England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend 1916

The day before Epiphany is the twelfth day of Christmas, and is sometimes called Twelfth Night, an occasion for feasting in some cultures.

Pro Ecclesia * Pro Familia * Pro Civitate 2009