| 1838 - 586 pages
...in narrow room Throng numberless ; like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain,...they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund musick charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal Spirits to smallest... | |
| 1838 - 762 pages
...Sfakian story also has a resemblance to the legends of our northern mythology, with its ' fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or fountain,...sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitresa ; — they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear." " Two men... | |
| John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain,...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on their... | |
| Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - 1838 - 372 pages
...Danish book, and not a whit less marvellous than such as I have already told — " . of fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or fountain,...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees; while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course." My tales, however,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 pages
...passages, describes his fairy nightecene: — — — — ^— — — —— — — — " Faery elves. ote, in order to complete the catalogue, all the fragments of ancient minstrelsy that have h« sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitre**, and nearer to the earth WheeU her pale course ;... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on then- mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his...ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduc'd their shapes immense, and were at large, 790 Though... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, hy pale career, Till civil-suited Alom appear, Not...But kercheft in a comely cloud, While rocking winds Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduce their shapes immense, and were at large Thougli without... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees ; while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels...ear: At once with joy, and fear, his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduc'd their shapes immense, and were at large, Though... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...fountain, some helated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees ; while over head the moon 785 Sits arhitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they,...charm his ear : At once with joy, and fear, his heart rehounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms 790 Reduc'd their shapes immense, and were at... | |
| 1842 - 468 pages
...frolics and gambols, instead of devouring him. ' Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.' Though, as we have seen, weak children were unscrupulously sacrificed at Sparta, they still made offerings... | |
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