Indian mount, or 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, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent,... Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ... - Page 165by John Milton - 1795Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitress, aud-iicarcr to the earth 785 Wheels hi r pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once w itli joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spi'rits to smallest forms Keduc'd thtir shapes... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight h thy prediction, seer blest, Measur'd this transient...the race of time, Till time stand fix'd ! Beyond is arbitrcss, and nearer to the Earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent,... | |
| John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...Whose midnight revels, br a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he see?, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale corse, they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; 786 At oace with joy... | |
| William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...its gay votaries like " Fairy elves beyond the Indian mount, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...ear: At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds." So our young novices must have felt when they first saw the magic of the scene, and heard its syren... | |
| William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...its gay votaries like " Fairy elves beyond the Indian mount, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...ear: . At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds." So our young novices must have felt when they first saw the magic of the scene, and heard its syren... | |
| England - 1821 - 818 pages
...fairy region, and beheld the gambols of the tiny The moon was now far up in the wide elves, which the belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead...ear, At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Now, I imagined myself in an uninhabited World, where life was a thing of the past, and where inanimate... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated...earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth anddance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus... | |
| English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
...traveller's mind, — — like that pigrnean race Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated...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, with... | |
| John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...Throng'd numberless; like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated...sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arhitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale corse, they, on their mirth and dance Intent,... | |
| William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...its gay votaries like " Fairy elves beyond the Indian mount, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees ; while overhead the moou Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course: they on their mirth and dance... | |
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