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" 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; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm... "
Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses - Page 80
by John Ferriar - 1812
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Literary Hours; Or, Sketches, Critical, Narrative, and Poetical, Volume 1

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 480 pages
...impetuous strength upon the air, had thus exposed himself to instant ruin. . NO. XU HOURS. NUMBER XI. Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth...
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The Poems of Ossian: &c, Volume 2

James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...Milton's belated peasant. Par. Lost, i. 780. Like that pigmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or...sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbtfress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. " Sons of the mighty," he said, " ye bring...
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The poems of Ossian, &c. containing the poetical works of J ..., Volume 2

Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...Milton's belated peasant. Par. Lost, i. 780. Like that pigmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while uierhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. "Sons of the mighty,"...
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A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...fairy Оал'г* BELA'TED. adj. [from be and /ai*."]" Benighted ; out of doors late at night. Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees. Milton, Paradhe lv!. Or near Heetditch's oozy brinks, Jítlíit.-J, seems on watch lo lie. Strip. To...
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The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five ...

John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 260 pages
...; 't the tender melancholy of the other lines. INDOr THE NOTKf. THE V;jS~ «S£S=*" r ^SIV^ ' FAIR? ELVES, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or...Peasant sees, Or dreams he sees; while over-head the moan Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. They, on their mirth and dance...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like ihat pygmean race 7 Si] Beyond the Indian mount, or faery elves, Whose midnight...peasant sees, * Or dreams he sees, while over-head the Moqn Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her/palecourse','they on their mirth and dancr...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1

1810 - 482 pages
...numberless, like that Pygmean rate Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by :> forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-bead the Moo» Set arbitress, and nearer to earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elvesj Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...who seera'd In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room bring forth fruits, joy, and eternal bliss." He ended...the race of time, Till time stand fix'd ! Beyond is arbitrcss, and nearer to the Earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent,...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...numberless ; like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, 780 Whose midnight revels, br a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he see?, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale corse, they,...
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