 ... in green, to which purpose they do in the night steal hempen stalks from the fields where they grow, to convert them into horses, as the story goes.  Mysteries of Magic - Page 12by C. J. S. Thompson - 2005 - 364 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828 - 392 pages
...on mountains, being like men and women, soldiers, kings, and ladies, children and horsemen, clothed in green, to which purpose they do in the night steal...grow, to convert them into horses, as the story goes f. " Such jocund and facetious spirits," he continues, " are said to sport themselves in the night... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - England - 1834 - 432 pages
...in mountains, being like men and women, soldiers, kings, and ladies, children, and horsemen clothed in green, to which purpose they do in the night steal...grow, to convert them into horses, as the story goes." Sir Walter Scott has well remarked that the fairy land and fairies of Spenser, had no connexion with... | |
 | 320 pages
...in mountains, being like men and women, soldiers, kings, and ladies, children, and horsemen clothed in green, to which purpose they do in the night steal...to convert them into horses, as the story goes."- Sir Walter Scott has well remarked that the fairy land and fairies of Spenser, had no connexion with... | |
 | Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1834 - 428 pages
...men and women, soldiers, kings, and ladies, children, and horsemen clothed in green, to which puqlose they do in the night steal hempen stalks from the...grow, to convert them into horses, as the story goes." Sir Walter Scott has well remarked that the fairy land and fairies of Spenser, had no connexion with... | |
 | English fiction - 1848 - 588 pages
...on mountains, being like men and women, soldiers, kings, and ladies, children, and horsemen, clothed in green, to which purpose they do, in the night,...them into horses, as the story goes. Such jocund and factious spirits are said to sport themselves in the night, by tumbling and fooling with shepherds... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1850 - 622 pages
...on mountains, being like men and women, soldiers, kings, and ladies, children and horsemen, clothed in green, to which purpose they do in the night steal...story goes. " Such jocund and facetious spirits," he continues, "are said to sport themselves in the night by tumbling and fooling with servants and... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1855 - 400 pages
...xx). Perhaps Scot has left us as luminous an account of the fairies as can anywhere be found. They do " principally inhabit the mountains and caverns...sayd to sport themselves in the night by tumbling and fooling with servants and shepherds in country houses, pinching them black and blue, and leaving bread,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1898 - 220 pages
...on mountains, being like men and women, soldiers, kings, and ladies, children and horsemen, clothed in green, to which purpose they do in the night steal...goes. . . . Such jocund and facetious spirits are said to sport themselves in the night by tumbling and fooling with servants and shepherds in country... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Miniature books - 1906 - 216 pages
...like men and women, soldiers, kings, and ladies, children and horsemen, clothed in green, to whicr purpose they do in the night steal hempen stalks from...goes. . . . Such jocund and facetious spirits are said to sport themselves in the night by tumbling and fooling with servants and shepherds in country... | |
 | 1906 - 690 pages
...on mountains, being like men and women, soldiers, kings, and ladies, children, and horsemen, clothed in green, to which purpose they do in the night steal...hempen stalks from the fields where they grow, to conuert them into horses as the story goes.' Drake, Sh. and his Times, p. 489, sketches briefly the... | |
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