 These, when a child haps to be got, Which after proves an idiot, When folks perceive it thriveth not, The fault therein to smother, Some silly doating brainless calf, That understands things by the half, Says that the fairy left this aulf, And took away...  A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical - Side 357af John Christopher Atkinson - 1868 - 616 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Nichols - 1782 - 342 sider
...and in mat flies found, ,Of them fo call'd the Fary ground, Of which they have the keeping. ' Thefe when a child haps to be got, 'Which after proves an idiot, When folk perceives it thrivcth not, The fault therein to Another, •Some filly doating brainlefs calf,... | |
 | 1793 - 810 sider
...meadows and in marines found, Of them fo call'd the Fairy ground, Of which they have the keeping. Thcfe, when a child haps to be got, Which after proves an idiot, When folk perceive it thriveth not, The fault therein to fmother '. Some filly doating brainlefs calf, That... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 692 sider
...In meadows and in marshes found, Of them so call'd the Fairy-ground, Of which they have the keeping. These, when a child haps to be got, Which after proves an idiot. When folk perceive it thrivcth not, The fault therein to smother : Some silly doating brainless calf, That... | |
 | 1816 - 778 sider
...more witty, which they ftcal away.] i. A changeling; a foolifh child left by the fairies. — Thefe when a child haps to be got, Which after proves an idiot, When folk perceive it thriveth not, The fault therein to fmother: Some filly floating brainlefs calf,' That... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 824 sider
...ouphs or fairies in the place of one more witty.' A changeling a foolish child left by the fairies. These, when a child haps to be got Which after proves an idiot, When folk perceives it thrivelh not, The fault therein to smother : Some silly doating brainless calf, That... | |
 | 1838 - 488 sider
...propensity in his Nymphidia— Thus when a child hap to be got, That after proves an idiot, When folk perceive it thriveth not, The fault therein to smother, — Some silly, doating, brainless calf, That understands things hy the half, ' Says that the fairy left this aulf And took away the other.... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1845 - 352 sider
...meadows and in marshes found, Of them so call'd the fairy -ground, Of which they have the keeping. These, when a child haps to be got, Which after proves...therein to smother, Some silly doating brainless calf, That understands things by the half, Says that the fairy left this aulf, And took away the other. But... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 850 sider
...is very healthy, though sharp in winter. AUF, OAF and ELF. Sax. alf; Ger. alp; Dutch alve. See ELF. These, when a child haps to be got, Which after proves an idiot, When folk perceive it thrivetli not, Tlie fault therein to smother : Some silly doating brainless calf,... | |
 | John Saunders - 1848 - 434 sider
...propensity in his Nymphidia — These when a child hap to be got, That after proves an idiot, When folk perceive it thriveth not, The fault therein to smother,— Some silly, doating, brainless calf, That understands things by the half, Says that the fairy left this aulf And took away the other. Such... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1850 - 622 sider
...which they have the keeping. These, when a child haps to be got, That after proves an idiot, When folk perceive it thriveth not, The fault therein to smother, Some silly, doating, brainless calf, That understands things by the half, Says that the fairy left this aulf, And took away the other. And... | |
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