| James Quin - Actors - 1766 - 128 pages
...dapper elves," we smiled and shook, and saw the little beings ' Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...sees ; while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course.' His invocation of Cotytto was masterly beyond all these.... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Vhose midnigtit revels 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... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...sees, while 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... | |
| John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pages
...that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian Mount, or faery elves, \Vhose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...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... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1800 - 482 pages
...thus exposed himself to instant ruin. NUMBER XI. -Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...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... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels 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 785 Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music... | |
| Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...sighs, and, silent, strode away. Mine eyes followed his departure. He dimly gleamed, like the form Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and, nearer to the earth, Wheels her pale course. *9 This reply alTounds with the sentiments of a noble... | |
| James Macpherson - Bards and bardism - 1805 - 654 pages
...that pigmean race Beyond the 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 arbtfress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. " Sons of the mighty," he said, " ye bring... | |
| John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 258 pages
...melancholy of the other lines. END OF THE NOTES. PAIR-/ ELVES, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated Peasant sees, Or dreams...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... | |
| John Black - Dialect drama, Scottish - 1806 - 260 pages
...INDOr THE NOTKf. THE V;jS~ «S£S=*" r ^SIV^ ' FAIR? ELVES, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated 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... | |
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