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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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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 372 pages
...Swarmed and were straightened ; 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 Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels,...
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The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments

John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...770 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 780 Beyond the Indian mount: or faery elves, Whose midnight revels,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1848 - 474 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, Whose midnight revels,...
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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 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...
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Footprints of the Creator, Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

Hugh Miller - Science - 1849 - 344 pages
...period, seems scarce less strange than that sung by Milton : " Behold a wonder ! They but now who seemed In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Thronged numberless ; like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or fairy elves, Whose midnight...
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Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly ...

John Milton, James Prendeville - Bible - 1850 - 452 pages
...crowd Swarm'd, and were straiten'd; till, the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder! 3 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, by...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: Together with a ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1850 - 570 pages
...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal ijivrn, Behold a wonder ! They but now who si-um'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless; like that pygmean nice Beyond the Indian mount; or fairy elves. Whose midnight revels,...
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The Foot-prints of the Creator: Or, The Asterolepis of Stromness

Hugh Miller, Louis Agassiz - Asterolepididae - 1850 - 400 pages
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Principles of Geology: Or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and Its ...

Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1850 - 866 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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University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 38

Ireland - 1851 - 838 pages
...speak alongthe clearstreams, dabbling among of “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.” * Strongly fixed. f Much. Husbandnian. 250 Iriah Riier..—¿No. VIII. Tothesechildish...
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