Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English WritersKerslake, 1875 - 426 pages |
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... playing , as a bard or rhapsodist , and was well rewarded for his poetical effusions , which being fabulous stories , of his own composition , of gods , heroes , wars , battles , sieges , voyages , adventures , and miracles , altogether ...
... playing , as a bard or rhapsodist , and was well rewarded for his poetical effusions , which being fabulous stories , of his own composition , of gods , heroes , wars , battles , sieges , voyages , adventures , and miracles , altogether ...
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... play i ' th ' plighted clouds . " " " 1 It is by no means credible , however , that Milton had any knowledge of the Oriental peries ; though his enthusiastic or poetical imagination might have easily peopled the air with spirits . There ...
... play i ' th ' plighted clouds . " " " 1 It is by no means credible , however , that Milton had any knowledge of the Oriental peries ; though his enthusiastic or poetical imagination might have easily peopled the air with spirits . There ...
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... played his pranks from the time of Merlin , who was the contemporary of Arthur . Chaucer uses the word faërie as well for the indi- vidual as for the country or system , or what we should now call fairyland , or fairyism . He knew ...
... played his pranks from the time of Merlin , who was the contemporary of Arthur . Chaucer uses the word faërie as well for the indi- vidual as for the country or system , or what we should now call fairyland , or fairyism . He knew ...
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... play , calls Oberon- " King of shadows , " and in the old song just mentioned— " The king of ghosts and shadows ; " and this mighty monarch asserts of himself , and his subjects- " But we are SPIRITS of another sort . " The fairies , as ...
... play , calls Oberon- " King of shadows , " and in the old song just mentioned— " The king of ghosts and shadows ; " and this mighty monarch asserts of himself , and his subjects- " But we are SPIRITS of another sort . " The fairies , as ...
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... play- " Fairies black , grey , green , and white . " That white , on some occasions , was the dress of a female , we learn from Reginald Scot.2 He gives a charm " to go invisible , by [ means of ] these three sisters of fairies ...
... play- " Fairies black , grey , green , and white . " That white , on some occasions , was the dress of a female , we learn from Reginald Scot.2 He gives a charm " to go invisible , by [ means of ] these three sisters of fairies ...
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Artour blode child Claia commaund dæmon dance dayes doth Dream drinke elves eyes fair fairies fayre fayries feare feyre forto Gerames Gervase of Tilbury give gode gold grace grete hath heard horne horse Jocastus king Arthur king Oberon knyzt kyng lady laughing lond lord maid marvaile mayde merry Midsummer Night's Dream Mopsus mortal mother never night noble nymphs o'er pinch pray Puck Queen Mab quene quoth Huon quoth Oberon Reginald Scot Robin Good-fellow round ryche ryde sayd schall sche seyde shal shalbe shalt shee shew sing Sir Gawen song speake spirits stede sweet syr Launfal TALE thee ther things Thomas told Tom Thumb unther unto wende whan whyt wold woman wood word wyll wyth