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... An Old Shropshire Oak - Page 406by John Wood Warter - 1891Full view - About this book
| Actors - 1766 - 128 pages
...shelves, Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves," we smiled and shook, and saw the little beings ' Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain,...arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course.' His invocation of Cotytto was masterly beyond all these. It was not delivered with awe and humility,... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...Throng numberless, like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Vhose midnigtit revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant...and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thu.ยป incorpareal Spi'rits to smallest forms Reduc'd... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 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...over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear:... | |
| John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pages
...room, and Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian Mount, or faery elves, \Vhose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some...and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Book i, vtr. 780. count of the matter, however, I believe... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...having wasted his impetuous.strength upon the air, had thus exposed himself to instant ruin. NUMBER XI. -Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side,...and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. MILTON. WALLERAN dropt lifeless on the ground, and... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...sees, Or dreams he sees; while over-head the moon Sits arhitress, and nearer to the earth \\heelsher pale course; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rehounds. Thus incorporeal spirits l0 smallest forms Keduc'd... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 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...over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ;... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 480 pages
...impetuous strength upon the air, had thus exposed himself to instant ruin. . NO. XU HOURS. NUMBER XI. 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, they on their mirth... | |
| James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...of Milton's belated peasant. Par. Lost, i. 780. Like that pigmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side...sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbtfress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. " Sons of the mighty," he said, " ye bring... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...of Milton's belated peasant. Par. Lost, i. 780. Like that pigmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while uierhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. "Sons of the mighty,"... | |
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