Two lectures read before the Essay society of Exeter college, Oxford [by R.J. King.].private distribution, 1840 - 100 sider |
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... living wight discerns Nor knows - o'erawed and trembling as he stands ; To what or whom he owes his idle fear To ghost , to witch , to fairy , or to fiend . But wonders - and no end of wondering finds . " their visits to " middle earth ...
... living wight discerns Nor knows - o'erawed and trembling as he stands ; To what or whom he owes his idle fear To ghost , to witch , to fairy , or to fiend . But wonders - and no end of wondering finds . " their visits to " middle earth ...
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... living in lakes and rivers , and generally seen swinging on the branches of trees , bathing in the flood , or dressing their hair beside a running stream . Wodnyk , " again , is the river spirit of Bohemia ; he is believed to come out ...
... living in lakes and rivers , and generally seen swinging on the branches of trees , bathing in the flood , or dressing their hair beside a running stream . Wodnyk , " again , is the river spirit of Bohemia ; he is believed to come out ...
Side 32
... fabric . Whether they were mortal beings or not- " That ne might any living wight descry . " b Keightley's Fairy Mythology . Borrow's Danish Ballads , 139 . but they certainly differed in some most important respects from 32.
... fabric . Whether they were mortal beings or not- " That ne might any living wight descry . " b Keightley's Fairy Mythology . Borrow's Danish Ballads , 139 . but they certainly differed in some most important respects from 32.
Side 54
... living gold " of the Mediterranean , on the ravines of the Alpux- arras , and the vega of Granada , with the same feelings as his remote brethren who retained their ancient seats beneath the pine forests of Scandinavia . The dream of ...
... living gold " of the Mediterranean , on the ravines of the Alpux- arras , and the vega of Granada , with the same feelings as his remote brethren who retained their ancient seats beneath the pine forests of Scandinavia . The dream of ...
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... living , and full of " Folk that were thider ybrought , And thought dead and wer not . ” i i Spenser - Ruins of Time . F j Romance of Sir Orfeo . ( Ritson , vol . ii . ) and the queen of fairye addresses Thomas the Rhymer , 65.
... living , and full of " Folk that were thider ybrought , And thought dead and wer not . ” i i Spenser - Ruins of Time . F j Romance of Sir Orfeo . ( Ritson , vol . ii . ) and the queen of fairye addresses Thomas the Rhymer , 65.
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abode aërial amongst ancient appear Armorica armour Avalon ballad bard Barzaz Breiz battle beauty Beowulf Bersækir Brittany called castle Celtic Celts constantly court crye Dame damosell dark delighted demons divers dragon Druids Duergar Edda einheriar Elves enchanted Europe evil EXETER COLLEGE faërie fair fairy famous fayre Finn Magnussen flowers forest Gervase of Tilbury giants Giraldus Cambrensis gold green Guenever Gunnlang hall hath haunt heard Hellequin Heywood hill Holy hoost Isle King Arthur Knight Kyot Lady ladyes land magic marvellous Middle Ages mighty mountain mysterious mythology nobis noble North Northern Odin once Orthone passed peculiar Philyppe Pixies poems poetry present Queen remarkable romance rose sayde says seruant shew singular Sir Launfal Society song spirits steed strange stream Supernatural superstitions Thomas the Rhymer thou tree tribes trouvère Tryamour Valhalla whilst wild witch wolf wolves wonderful wood words
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Side 80 - It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. "Blow up the fire, my maidens! Bring water from the well! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Side 71 - As when a gryphon through the wilderness With winged course o'er hill or moory dale, Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold...
Side 87 - Then anon they heard cracking and crying of thunder, that them thought the place should all to-drive. In the midst of this blast entered a sunbeam more clearer by seven times than ever they saw day, and all they were alighted of the grace of the Holy Ghost.
Side 29 - Olympian games or Pythian fields ; 530 Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigades form. As when to warn proud cities, war appears Waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush To battle in the clouds, before each van Prick forth the airy knights, and couch their spears Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of Heaven the welkin burns.
Side 14 - To wake the bounding stag, or guilty wolf, There oft is heard, at midnight, or at noon, Beginning faint, but rising still more loud, And nearer, voice of hunters, and of hounds, And horns, hoarse-winded, blowing far and keen :— Forthwith the hubbub multiplies ; the gale Labours with wilder shrieks, and rifer din Of hot pursuit ; the broken cry of deer Mangled by throttling dogs ; the shouts of men, And hoofs, thick beating on the hollow hill.
Side 80 - Their beds are made in the heavens high, Down at the foot of our good lord's knee, Weel set about wi' gillyflowers : , I wot sweet company for to see.
Side 41 - For not to have been dipt in Lethe lake Could save the sonne of Thetis from to die...