 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 692 pages
...fairy can as soon Pass to the Earth below it. 'The walls of spiders' leg» are made, Well mprticed and finely laid, He was the master of his trade, It...builded : The windows of the eyes of cats, And for' the roof, instead of slats, Is cover'd with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded. Hence... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1836 - 416 pages
...squirrel," will contain the majesty of pixy land. And Drayton, who writes of these little poetical beings as if he were the chosen laureate of their...eyes of cats, And for a roof, instead of slats, Is cover'd with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded." And then for the royal equipage of... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 536 pages
...solidity of structure mightily remind us of the faery palace described by old Michael Drayton :— " The walls of spiders' legs are made,. Well morticed...and finely laid, He was the master of his trade, It curiouslie that builded: The windows of the eyes of cats, And for the roof, instead of slats, Is cover'd... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1838 - 410 pages
...squirrel," will contain the majesty of pixy land. And Drayton, who writes of these little poetical beings as if he were the chosen laureate of their...eyes of cats, And for a roof, instead of slats, Is cover'd with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded." And then for the royal equipage of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon, And thence the Fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well morticed...builded : The windows of the eyes of cats, And for the roof, instead of slates, Is cover'd with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded. Hence... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1845 - 352 pages
...noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon, And thence the fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders legs are made, Well morticed...builded : The windows of the eyes of cats, And for the roof, instead of slates, Is cover'd with the skins of bats, With moonshine that are gilded. Hence... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon, And thence the Fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well morticed...curiously that builded : The windows of the eyes of cats: (because they see best at night) And for the roof instead of slats Is cover'd with the skins of bats... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon, And thence the Fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well morticed...curiously that builded: The windows of the eyes of cats : (because they see best at night) Here also is a fairy bed, very delicate, from the same poet's Muse's... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon, And thence the Fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well morticed...curiously that builded: The windows of the eyes of cats: (because they see best at night) Here also is a fairy bed, very delicate, from the same poet's Muse's... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon, And thence the Fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders' legs are made, Well morticed...curiously that builded: The windows of the eyes of caU : i (because they see best at night) Here also is a fairy bed, very delicate, from the same poet's... | |
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And somewhat southward toward the noon, Whence lies a way up to the moon. And thence the Fairy can as soon Pass to the earth below it. The walls of spiders... 
