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" 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 24
by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pages
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Principles of Geology, Volume 2

Charles Lyell - Science - 1990 - 358 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 the...
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The Golden Age of Myth & Legend

Thomas Bulfinch - Fiction - 1993 - 390 pages
...that Pygmaean race Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves Whose midnight revels by a forest side, 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 dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear. At once...
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Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics

Daniel Patrick Moynihan - History - 1993 - 242 pages
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Angels & Insects: Two Novellas

A. S. Byatt - Fiction - 1992 - 356 pages
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The North American Review, Volume 47

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1838 - 540 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...
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The Limits of Moralizing: Pathos and Subjectivity in Spenser and Milton

David Mikics - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 302 pages
...dews and flowers Fly to and fro ... 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 Pigmean Race Beyond the Indian Mount, or Faery Elves.... (PL 1.768-81) Here,...
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 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, in narrow room Throng numberless — like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or faeiy elves, Whose midnight revels,...
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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

C. S. Lewis - History - 1994 - 248 pages
...stubborn unlaid ghost— No goblin or swart Faery of the mine. (Comus, 432 sq.) (2) Like that Pigmean Race Beyond the Indian Mount, or Faery Elves, Whose midnight Revels, by a Forest side Or Fountain some belated Peasant sees... (Paradise Lost, l, 780 sq.) (3) And Ladies ofUi'Hesperides,...
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T. S. Eliot and the Use of Memory

Grover Smith - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 198 pages
...Coker" 2 of faery dancers to their hill of retreat by day. Behold a wonder! they but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less...narrow room Throng numberless—like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some...
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Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance ...

Douglas Biow - Epic literature - 1996 - 222 pages
...use of the Homeric formula of wonder at the end of book I: 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,...
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