Fairy Tales, Now First Collected: To which are Prefixed Two Dissertations 1. on Pygmies 2. on FairiesPayne and Foss, 1831 - 207 sider |
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... merry wives of windsor : “ Like urchins , ouphes , and fairies green * . " In fact , we meet with them of all colours : as in the same play : " Fairies black , grey , green , and white . " * In the same play is this line " You orphan ...
... merry wives of windsor : “ Like urchins , ouphes , and fairies green * . " In fact , we meet with them of all colours : as in the same play : " Fairies black , grey , green , and white . " * In the same play is this line " You orphan ...
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... merry wives of windsor , is made to say , " They are fairies ; he that speaks to them shall dye . " They were accustomed to enrich their favourites ; as we learn from the clown in A winters tale : " It was told me I should be rich by ...
... merry wives of windsor , is made to say , " They are fairies ; he that speaks to them shall dye . " They were accustomed to enrich their favourites ; as we learn from the clown in A winters tale : " It was told me I should be rich by ...
Side 40
... , in this situation , with " the poets eye : " : * Thus , also , in The merry wives of windsor : " You moon - shine revellers , and shades of night . " + Sports . fairie elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest 40 ON FAIRIES .
... , in this situation , with " the poets eye : " : * Thus , also , in The merry wives of windsor : " You moon - shine revellers , and shades of night . " + Sports . fairie elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest 40 ON FAIRIES .
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... luck . " To these questions Robin thus replies : " Thou speak'st aright , I am that merry wanderer of the night . * Discoverie of witchcraft , p . 85 . + Puck , in fact . I jest to Oberon , and make him smile , 46 ON FAIRIES .
... luck . " To these questions Robin thus replies : " Thou speak'st aright , I am that merry wanderer of the night . * Discoverie of witchcraft , p . 85 . + Puck , in fact . I jest to Oberon , and make him smile , 46 ON FAIRIES .
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... merry , and sometimes seen in armour † . ” clergyman , who not only believes in Fairies , but is even so infatuated on the subject as to imagine they are continually in his presence , and has written a book about them . Heaths Account ...
... merry , and sometimes seen in armour † . ” clergyman , who not only believes in Fairies , but is even so infatuated on the subject as to imagine they are continually in his presence , and has written a book about them . Heaths Account ...
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Albion ancient appeared arms barguest called fairies changeling charm child dæmons dance devil Discoverie of witchcraft doth dream earth elves English eyes faërie fair fairy king fays fear fée fire forest frequently Frier Rush garden Gervase of Tilbury goblin green hair hath haunted heard hill Hob-goblin horse hurt Hutgin Incubus Kenna king Oberon lady Larvæ laughing length likewise lived lord lovers maids Mauthe Doog merry Midsummer nights dream Milton moon mortal mother mountain never night nurse Nymphidia nymphs o'er Oberon Olaus Magnus Otia imperialia Ovid Pigwiggen pinch Pomponius Mela poor Proserpina Puck Pygmies queen Mab quoth Reginald Scot Robin Good-fellow round Santa Ninfa says seemed seen sent shade Shakspeare sleep sometimes spide stature tale tell thee thing thou Titania told Tomalin unto Waldron whence witches woman
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Side 14 - in one night, ere glimps of morn, His shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end, Then lies him down, the lubbar fend; And stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And crop-full out of dores he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings*,
Side 22 - midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart mens noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest
Side 1 - Fairy Elves Whose midnight revel, by a forest side, Or fountain, 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 and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear: At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. MILTON.
Side 30 - love have oft made sport; And, like a forester, the groves may tread. Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red, Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams, Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams." Compare, likewise, what Robin himself says on this subject in the old song of his exploits.
Side 22 - noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest spiders web ; The collars, of the moonshines wat'ry beams: Her whip, of crickets bone; the lash, of
Side 23 - That plats the manes of horses in the night; And bakes the elf-locks in foul sluttish hairs, Which, once untangled, much misfortune bodes *." Ben Jonson, in his " Entertainment of the queen and prince at Althrope," in 1603, describes to come
Side 186 - By the triple Hecates team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream, Now are frolick ; not a mouse Shall disturb this hallow'd house : I am sent, with broom, before, To sweep the dust behind the door*.
Side 197 - At morning and at evening both You merry were and glad, So little care of sleep and sloth, These pretty ladies had. When Tom came home from labour, Or Ciss to milking rose, Then merrily went their labour, And nimbly went their toes. Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain ; Were footed in queen
Side 31 - This amiable quality is, likewise, thus beautifully alluded to by the same poet: " By FAIRY HANDS their knell is rung, By FORMS UNSEEN their dirge is sung.
Side 39 - bowl, In very likeness of a roasted crab; And, when she drinks, against her lips I bob, And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale. The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale, Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me, Then slip I from her bum, down topples she, And ' rails or' cries *, and falls into a cough, And then the whole quire hold their hips and