 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, with jocund music charm his...  The Poems of Ossian: &c - Page 355by James Macpherson - 1805Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...petits nains, s'entassent sans nombre dans un espace étroit : ils Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or...sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitrées, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course : they, on their mirth and dalice Intent,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 318 pages
...of his prettiest passages ; for prettiness can be applied to him as well as sublimity. He talks of fairy elves — ' Whose midnight revels by a forest...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees.' At eighteen I could not bear this ' dreams;' I wanted reality ; and I believe I was full thirty before,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1837 - 204 pages
...one of his prettiest passages; for prettiness can be applied to him as well as sublimity. He talks of fairy elves— ' Whose midnight revels by a forest...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees.' At eighteen I could not bear this ' dreams;' I wanted reality; and I believe I was fully thirty before,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow room Throug numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyoud the Indian mount; or (aery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant MT>, Or dreams be sees, while over-head the moou Sits arbitres», and nearer to the earth Wheels her... | |
 | Bible - 1838 - 586 pages
...Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless ; like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or fairy elves, Whose...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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on their... | |
 | Mrs. Bray (Anna Eliza) - Devon (England) - 1838 - 372 pages
...contained in the Danish book, and not a whit less marvellous than such as I have already told — " . of fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side,...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees; while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course." My tales, however,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...Milton, in conformity with these passages, describes his fairj nightCDc .— — , •cene : — " Faery ansom windows, that are clothed with casement. Its walls are hung with oM pea5ant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery me in thy pale career, Till civil-suited Alom appear,...was wont With the Atlic boy to hunt. But kercheft arbitress, and nearer to the Earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent,... | |
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