In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless—like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant... Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 22by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 426 pages
...spirits in Pandemonium contract their size to gain room, and Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian Mount, or faery elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 238 pages
...spirits in Pandemonium contract their size to gain room, and Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian Mount, or faery elves. Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1812 - 430 pages
...spirits in Pandemonium contract their size to gain room, and Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian Mount, or faery elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 240 pages
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder! They but now 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 fairy elves, Whom miiiaight rerels,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 710 pages
...passages, describes his fairy night-scene : — " Faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund musick charm his ear." Todd's... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 702 pages
...passages, describes his fairy night-scene: — " Faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund musick charm his ear." Todd's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder! They but now 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 fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 352 pages
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd} till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder! They but now 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 fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1819 - 394 pages
...place among the great assembly of the illustrious dead, " Behold a wonder! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, ' ' •...Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless." -tot* oodles <af Voiiaire can no longer perTTtai ~ħac ether Mengs or Hamilton were of... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1819 - 464 pages
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder! They but now 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 elves, Whose midnight revels,... | |
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