| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...riper years ; and now it woke delight, and more mysterious awe. FATBIES— Gambob of the. Oft fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while o'erhead the moon Site arbitrées, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow 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 peasant sees, Or dreams lie sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ;... | |
| John Milton - 1862 - 366 pages
...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 sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits... | |
| Wendell Phillips - Abolitionists - 1863 - 580 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow 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 peasant sees. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large, Though... | |
| Wendell Phillips - Antislavery movements - 1863 - 582 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow 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 peasant sees. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large, Though... | |
| John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...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...sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitresg, and nearer to the earth 784 Wheels her pale course: they, on their mirth and dance Intent,... | |
| William John Thoms - German drama - 1865 - 152 pages
...after he had once joined " Elves and Fairies in a ring," it was not to be expected that when " Their midnight revels by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees," he should readily mark the difference between the Fairies who are properly the descendants of the Druidesses... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...to dewy eve, A summer's day. Book i. Line 742 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. Book i. Line 781 High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,... | |
| Anthologia Latina - 1865 - 438 pages
...melius," et " a Tun is Multa mole docendus aprico parcere prato." Quorum noctieago ftrepitu. Cf. " Faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sccs, Or dreams he sccs." — Milton, Par. Am. i. 781. 20. xxvII. impetus ingens, " tbe vast reach... | |
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