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 Milton - 1852 - 620 pages
...warm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given, Behold a wonderf They hut now who seem'd In higness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numherless, like that pyginean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount; or fairy elves, IVhoss midnight revels,... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...crowd 630 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, in narrow space Throng numberless, like that Pygmaean race 635 Beyond the Indian mount 5 ; or fairy elves, Whose... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...that Pygmean race Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Beyond the Indian mount: or faery elves, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course: they, on their mirth and da Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1853 - 202 pages
...which they revelled, and it is rarely now that— -Fairy 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 earih "Wheels her pale course; " —very rarely now that they are seen or even talked of in " the Green... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1861 - 436 pages
...Fairy elves Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees Or dreams lie 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 his ear: At... | |
 | England - 1821 - 818 pages
...shut eye !" Now I thought myself in fairyland, and beheld the gambols of the tiny elves, which the 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 his ear, At... | |
 | Donald Maurice Rosenberg - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 302 pages
...Book 1, the poet compares the fallen angels to fairy 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; they on thir mirth and dance Intent, with jocund Music charm his ear. (1.782-87)... | |
 | Elizabeth Ely Fuller - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 332 pages
...crowd Swarmed and were straitened; till the signal giv'n, 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, or fairy elves. Whose midnight revels by... | |
 | John Guillory - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 220 pages
...further descending into an underworld beneath Hell itself: 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 Pigmean Race Beyond the Indian Mount, or Faery Elves, Whose midnight Revels,... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - History - 2008 - 225 pages
...scale in order to enter the council chamber of Pandemonium: 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, or faerie elves, Whose midnight revels,... | |
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