 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1854 - 560 pages
...of Queen Mab must not be omitted here. He puts it into the mouth of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet : " She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs j The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 480 pages
...sees he has had an eye to Virgil's thunderbolts : — " 0, then I see queen Mab hath been with yon. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinner's legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 604 pages
...no bigger thnn an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomiea Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her wagon-spokes...smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watry beams" &c. Even in describing fantastic beings there is a propriety to be observed ; but surely... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 604 pages
...thunderbolti. " 0, then I see queen Mab hath been with yon. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she cornea In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger...of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine' t wafry beamt," &c. Even in describing fantastic beings there is a propriety to be observed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 380 pages
...yours? Mer. That dreamers often lie. Rom. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. 0, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you, She is...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; Her traces of... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...was yours ? Mer. That dreamers often lie. Rom. In bed, asleep, while they do dream tilings true. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She...little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; LACONICS. Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' lege ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 824 pages
...was yours ? MER. That dreamers often .lie. ROM. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. MEB. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. she...an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Brawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: H;r waggon-spokes made... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...yours ? Mer. That dreamers often lie. Rom. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. 0, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you.. She is...as they lie asleep : Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web;... | |
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She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners... 
