 Indian mount; or faery 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,...  The Falls of Clyde: Or, The Fairies; a Scotish Dramatic Pastoral, in Five ... - Page 103by John Black - 1806 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they, on their mirth and dance... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - Banshees - 1834 - 364 pages
...Engravings after Designs by Mr. BROOKE, RHA Mr. M'CusE, and the AUTHOR. FAIRY LEGENDS. THE SHEFRO. -" Fairy Elves Whose midnight revels, by a. forest side Or...peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the Moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course." — MILTON. LEGENDS OF THE SHEFROLEGEND... | |
 | William Toone - English language - 1834 - 498 pages
...Critias, kis dearest fictamy. IEID. BELATED, late, tardy. Milton uses it to signify benighted. • Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest .side Or fountain some belated peasant sees. PAR. LOST, BELATED, laid over or adorned. All in a woodman's jacket he was elad, Of Lincolnc greene,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or...peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Siis arbiiress, and nearer to the eanh Wheels her pale course : they, on their mirth and dance... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 488 pages
...Wieland's Oberon. Milton, too, — even the sublime Milton — has stooped to celebrate - Those fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or...peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course : they, on their mirth and dance... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...petits nains, s'entassent sans nombre dans un espace étroit : ils Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or...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 dalice... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1837 - 204 pages
...his prettiest passages; for prettiness can be applied to him as well as sublimity. He talks of fairy elves— ' Whose midnight revels by a forest side...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees.' At eighteen I could not bear this ' dreams;' I wanted reality; and I believe I was fully thirty before,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 318 pages
...his prettiest passages ; for prettiness can be applied to him as well as sublimity. He talks of fairy elves — ' Whose midnight revels by a forest side...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees.' At eighteen I could not bear this ' dreams;' I wanted reality ; and I believe I was full thirty before,... | |
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