 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
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 500 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. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that, among... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...that pygmean race 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 arbitrées, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...sublime Milton—has stooped to celebrate - Those fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees ; while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Collins has exercised the powers of his fancy on subjects of this sort, and has celebrated many a witch-told... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 584 pages
...crowd Swarmed and were straitened ; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates, is well known that, among the... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Fairy tales - 1838 - 372 pages
...M'CLISE, and the AUTHOR. FAIRY LEGENDS. THE SHEFRO. ' Fniry Elves Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he...over-head the Moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course."— B MILTON. LEGENDS OF THE SHEFRO. THE LEGEND OF KNOCKSHEOGOWNA. IN Tipperary... | |
 | English periodicals - 1838 - 772 pages
...legends of our northern mythology, with its ' fairy elves. Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress ;—they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear. 1 " Two men went on a fine... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell - American fiction - 1838 - 538 pages
...unlike that described in the meeting of another society. " 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, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount." At all events, the officers were no fewer... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...• Midsummer-Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 2. Whose midnight revel», by a forest side, и Faery elves. Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitréis, and nearer to the earth Intent, with jocund music charm his ear." Wheels her pale course... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1840 - 572 pages
...and were straiten'd ; till, the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder ! They but now who seem'd In higness to surpass earth's giant sons, , Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room 780 Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1840 - 504 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. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that, among... | |
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