 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 318 pages
...of 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...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,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow room Throug numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyoud the Indian mount; or (aery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant MT>, Or dreams be sees, while over-head the moou Sits arbitres», and nearer to the earth Wheels her... | |
 | Robert Pashley - Crete (Greece) - 1837 - 380 pages
...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the Moon Sits arbitrées — they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear77. "Two men went, on a fine moonlight night, up the lofty mountains, intending to hunt the agrimia.... | |
 | Bible - 1838 - 586 pages
...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless ; like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side...they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund musick charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal Spirits to smallest... | |
 | English periodicals - 1838 - 762 pages
...following Sfakian story also has a resemblance to the legends of our northern mythology, with its ' fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side,...sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitresa ; — they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear." " Two men... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1838 - 372 pages
...contained in the Danish book, and not a whit less marvellous than such as I have already told — " . of fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side,...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees; while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course." My tales, however,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side,...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on their... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...Milton, in conformity with these passages, describes his fairj nightCDc .— — , •cene : — " Faery ansom windows, that are clothed with casement. Its walls are hung with oM pea5ant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on then- mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his...ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduc'd their shapes immense, and were at large, 790 Though... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery me in thy pale career, Till civil-suited Alom appear,...But kercheft in a comely cloud, While rocking winds Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduce their shapes immense, and were at large Thougli without... | |
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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, with jocund music charm... 
