 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, hymn at the door of their bower. God to render man...admonish him of his obedience, of his free estate, Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduce their shapes immense, and were at largo Though without... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, X ^b Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduce their shapes immense, and were at large Though without... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...weary spirits rest; And meditate;—and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. 1 Fairy elves Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain,...Or dreams he sees, while, overhead, the moon Sits arbitress.I know a bank, whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxslip and the nodding violet grows, O'ercanopied... | |
 | Anne Ferry - 1983 - 207 pages
...like that Pigmean Race Beyond the Indian Mount, or Faerie Elves, Whose midnight Revels, by a Forrest side Or Fountain some belated Peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the Moon Sits Arbitress, and neerer to the Earth Wheels her pale course ... (1, 777-786)... | |
 | John Kevin Newman - 2003 - 576 pages
...and critical implications: see above, pp. 86 II. Faerie Elves, Whose midnight Revels, by a Forrest side Or Fountain some belated Peasant sees, Or dreams...sees, while over-head the Moon Sits Arbitress, and neerer to the Earth Wheels her pale course, they on thir mirth and dance Intent, with jocond Music... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...like that Pigmean Race Beyond the Indian Mount, or Faerie Elves, Whose midnight Revels, by a Forrest side Or Fountain some belated Peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the Moon Sits Arbitress, and neerer to the Earth Wheels her pale course [1.780-86] Thus from... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - 1991 - 230 pages
...that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount, or faerie elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he...ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. (Paradise Lost 1.m-88)30 The transformation of the rebel angels is at once unbelievable and true —... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - 2008 - 225 pages
...that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount, or faerie elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbi tress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with... | |
 | Thomas Bulfinch - 1993 - 390 pages
...skin, and carried them to Eurystheus. Milton uses the Pygmies for a simile in Paradise Lost, Book i : (Or dreams he sees), while overhead the moon Sits...ear. At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. THE GRIFFIN, OR GRYPHON The Griffin is a monster with the body of a lion, the head and wings of an... | |
 | Geoffrey Summerfield, Hugh Haughton, Adam Phillips - 1994 - 348 pages
...the nocturnal pastoral experiences of his childhood but the May Day world of Paradise Lost, Book 1, Whose midnight Revels, by a forest side Or Fountain...sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the Moon Wheels her pale course21 In his Autobiography Clare wrote of the 'religion' of his childhood: On Sundays... | |
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Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm... 
