Indian mount, or fairy elves, 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,... Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland - Side 1af Thomas Crofton Croker - 1838 - 344 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1766 - 128 sider
...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 sider
...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...arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 sider
...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 sider
...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...arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 sider
...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,...arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 656 sider
...sighs, and, silent, strode away. Mine eyes followed his departure. He dimly gleamed, like the form Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...and, nearer to the earth, Wheels her pale course. *9 This reply alTounds with the sentiments of a noble mind. Though, of all men living, he was the most... | |
| James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 sider
...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... | |
| John Black - 1806 - 258 sider
...faxvre in this paflage ; it injures the tender melancholy of the other lines. END OF THE NOTES. PAIR-/ ELVES, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or...arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. They, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his... | |
| John Black - 1806 - 260 sider
...word pame in this paflage ; >t the tender melancholy of the other lines. SND OF THE NOTE?; THE FAIR? ELVES, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or...Peasant sees, Or dreams he sees; while over-head the moan Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. They, on their mirth and dance... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 sider
...dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like ihat pygmean race 7 Si] Beyond the Indian mount, or faery elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain...peasant sees, * Or dreams he sees, while over-head the Moqn Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her/palecourse','they on their mirth and dancr... | |
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