Fairy Tales, Legends and Romances Illustrating Shakespeare and Other Early English WritersKerslake, 1875 - 426 pages |
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... woods , hills , the sea , fountains , grottoes , & c . , whence they are peculiarly called Naiads , Dryads , and Nereids- 1 Iliad , b . xxiv . v . 776. The word Fairy , as used in our own language , is a mere blunder . The proper name ...
... woods , hills , the sea , fountains , grottoes , & c . , whence they are peculiarly called Naiads , Dryads , and Nereids- 1 Iliad , b . xxiv . v . 776. The word Fairy , as used in our own language , is a mere blunder . The proper name ...
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... wood , Or azure daughters of the silver flood ! " -Odys . b . vi . v . 122 . The original word , indeed , is nymphs , which , it must be confessed , furnishes an accurate idea of the fays ( fees , or fates ) of the ancient French and ...
... wood , Or azure daughters of the silver flood ! " -Odys . b . vi . v . 122 . The original word , indeed , is nymphs , which , it must be confessed , furnishes an accurate idea of the fays ( fees , or fates ) of the ancient French and ...
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... wood : and these convented , Make fearefull noise in buttries and in dairies ; Robin Good - fellowes some , some call them fairies . In solitarie roomes these uprores keepe , And beat at dores to wake men from their sleepe ; Seeming to ...
... wood : and these convented , Make fearefull noise in buttries and in dairies ; Robin Good - fellowes some , some call them fairies . In solitarie roomes these uprores keepe , And beat at dores to wake men from their sleepe ; Seeming to ...
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... woods and fields ; when they make cakes ( which is a work they have been often heard at ) , they are very noisy ; and when they have done , they are full of mirth and pastime . But generally they dance in moonlight , when mortals are ...
... woods and fields ; when they make cakes ( which is a work they have been often heard at ) , they are very noisy ; and when they have done , they are full of mirth and pastime . But generally they dance in moonlight , when mortals are ...
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... wooden cuts which seem to represent the dresses in which this whimsical character was formerly exhibited upon the stage . " In this conjecture , however , the learned and ingenious editor was most egregiously mistaken , these cuts being ...
... wooden cuts which seem to represent the dresses in which this whimsical character was formerly exhibited upon the stage . " In this conjecture , however , the learned and ingenious editor was most egregiously mistaken , these cuts being ...
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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