 | 1766 - 128 pages
...shelves, Trip the pert fairies and the 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 he sees ; while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course.' His invocation of... | |
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...Throng numberless, like 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... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless; like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side...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... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pages
...room, and Throng numberless, like 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 he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side...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... | |
 | James Macpherson - 1805 - 654 pages
...of Milton's belated peasant. Par. Lost, i. 780. Like that pigmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side...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,"... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 656 pages
...of Milton's belated peasant. Par. Lost, i. 780. Like that pigmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while uierhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. "Sons of the mighty,"... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...belaaeur. fairy Оал'г* BELA'TED. adj. [from be and /ai*."]" Benighted ; out of doors late at night. Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side,...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees. Milton, Paradhe lv!. Or near Heetditch's oozy brinks, Jítlíit.-J, seems on watch lo lie. Strip. To... | |
 | John Black - 1806 - 260 pages
...OR, THE FAIRIES; . A SCOTISH DRAMATIC PASTORAL, IN FIVE ACTS. WITH THREE PRELIMINART DISSERTATIONS, Fairy Elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side,...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... | |
 | John Black - 1806 - 258 pages
...faxvre in this paflage ; it injures the tender melancholy of the other lines. END OF THE NOTES. PAIR-/ ELVES, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or...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... | |
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Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his... 
