Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English WritersKerslake, 1875 - 426 pages |
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... dance in mazy rings . ' " 1 These nymphs he supposes to frequent or reside in woods , hills , the sea , fountains , grottoes , & c . , whence they are peculiarly called Naiads , Dryads , and Nereids- 1 Iliad , b . xxiv . v . 776. The ...
... dance in mazy rings . ' " 1 These nymphs he supposes to frequent or reside in woods , hills , the sea , fountains , grottoes , & c . , whence they are peculiarly called Naiads , Dryads , and Nereids- 1 Iliad , b . xxiv . v . 776. The ...
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... dance of the elves.2 " In John Milesius any man may reade Of divels in Sarmatia honored , Call'd Kottri , or Kibaldi ; such as wee Pugs and Hob - goblins call . Their dwellings bee In corners of old houses least frequented , Or beneath ...
... dance of the elves.2 " In John Milesius any man may reade Of divels in Sarmatia honored , Call'd Kottri , or Kibaldi ; such as wee Pugs and Hob - goblins call . Their dwellings bee In corners of old houses least frequented , Or beneath ...
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... dancers.3 After all , Sir William Ouseley finds it impossible to give an accurate idea of what the Persian poets designed by a peri , this aerial being not resembling our fairies . The strongest resemblance he can find 1 Peter de Loyer ...
... dancers.3 After all , Sir William Ouseley finds it impossible to give an accurate idea of what the Persian poets designed by a peri , this aerial being not resembling our fairies . The strongest resemblance he can find 1 Peter de Loyer ...
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... dance ' malignant spirits ? " The journal of Paris , under Charles VI . and Charles VII . , pretends that she confessed that , at the age of twenty - seven years , she frequently went , in spite of her father and mother , to a fair ...
... dance ' malignant spirits ? " The journal of Paris , under Charles VI . and Charles VII . , pretends that she confessed that , at the age of twenty - seven years , she frequently went , in spite of her father and mother , to a fair ...
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... dance go Of ladies foure - and - twenty , and yet mo . Toward this ilke dance he drow ful yerne , In hope that he som wisdom shulde lerne , But , certainly , er he came fully there , Yvanished was this dance , he wiste not wher ...
... dance go Of ladies foure - and - twenty , and yet mo . Toward this ilke dance he drow ful yerne , In hope that he som wisdom shulde lerne , But , certainly , er he came fully there , Yvanished was this dance , he wiste not wher ...
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