| Zachary Grey - 1754 - 440 pages
...honour) *« All was this land fulfillid of fairy, *c The elquene with her jolly company " Daunfid full oft in many a grene mede, " This was the old opinion as I rede." Randolph, in his Amyntas, or fbe Impoffiblc Dowry, Aft iii. fc. iv. p. 57, has the following words.... | |
| Zachary Grey - 1754 - 424 pages
...fairy, ** The elquene with her jolly company 36 Critical, HijIorical, and Explanatory " Daunfid full oft in many a grene mede, " This was the old opinion as I rede." Randolph, in his Amyntas, or The Impoffible Dowry, Act iii. fc. iv. p. 57, has the following words.... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1762 - 264 pages
...honour; All was this lond fulfillid of fayry : The ELF-O^UENE, with her jolly company^ Daunfid full oft in many a grene mede : This was the old opinion, as I rede*. Hence too we find, that Spenfer followed the eftabliihed tradition, in fuppofing his Fairy <jhucn f... | |
| John Brand, Henry Bourne - 1777 - 466 pages
...Ring, fuppofed by the Vulgar to be traced by the Fairies in their Dances, to the Effefls Daunfed full oft in many a grene Mede*, This was the old Opinion, as I rede. I fpeke of many hundred Yere agoe, But now can no Man fe no Elfes mo. For now the .grete Charite and... | |
| John Bell - 1782 - 524 pages
...Cause, in v. fadus. - Our fyltem of Facri^ ave beea ouich more complete if all our ancient writDanced ful oft in many a grene mede. This was the old opinion as I rede; ers had taken the fame laudable pains to inform us upon that head that GcrvafeofTilbery has done, Or.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 392 pages
...Thopas, mentions her, together with a Fairy land. Again, in The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6439: ' In olde dayes of the king Artour, ' Of which that Bretons...grene mede : ' This was the old opinion as I rede." Steevens. s Playing on pipes of corn,] Richard Brathwaite f Strappado for the DeviI, 1615,) has a poem... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1805 - 384 pages
...Thopas, mentions her, together with a Fairy land. Again, in The Wif of Bathes Tale, v. 6439 1 • In olde dayes of the king Artour, ' Of which that Bretons...; ' All was this lond fulfilled of faerie ; ' The Elf-tfuene, with hire joly compagnie ' Danced ful oft in many a grene mede ; ' This was the old opinion... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 448 pages
...; " All was this lond fulnllid of fayry : " The ELF-auENE, with her jolly compatjy, " Daunfld full oft in many a grene mede : " This was the old opinion, as I rede." Hence too we find, that Spenfer followed the eftablifhed tradition, in luppofing his Fairy Queen °... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 452 pages
...; " All was this lond fuiiillid of fayry : " The ELF-QUENE, with her jolly company, " Daunfid full oft in many a grene mede : " This was the old opinion, as I rede." Hence too we find, that Spenfer followed the eftablimed tradition, in iuppofing his Fairy Queen " to... | |
| John Black - 1806 - 258 pages
...honour, All was this lond fulfill'd of Fayry : The Elf Quene, with her jolly company, Daunfid full oft in many a grene mede : This was the old opinion as I rede. 3. K*cw that ifcnatures thcre'ta gradual fsale. — It is evident tha.t Mr Pope muft have heard fomething... | |
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