She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger 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... Essays and The Bee - Page 204by Oliver Goldsmith - 1820Full view - About this book
| 1829 - 48 pages
...subject of the second design : « О , then , I see, queen Mab hath been with you. 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... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...they do dream things true. Мег. О, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the loir-finger ufan old alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies' Athwart men's noses as they lie... | |
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1830 - 262 pages
...contradistinguished from Imagination. " O, then, I see, Queen Mab has been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an...atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...midwife. The poet avails himtlf of Mal,'s appropriate province, by giving her this nocturnal agency.— On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies 1 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover,... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...poet avails himself of Mab's appropriate province, by giving her this nocturnal agency. — T. WABTOK. On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies1 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The... | |
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1831 - 302 pages
...contradistinguished from Imagination. " O, then, I see, Queen Mab has been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an...little atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...things true. Mar. 0, then, I see, queen M«b halb been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and «he comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an old alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies' Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 pages
...and horse, — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent ! QUEEN MAE. OH, then, I see Queen Mab has been with you, She is the fancy's midwife: and she...atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon-spokes, made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1833 - 396 pages
...Romeo. " O then," says Mercutio : O then, I see queen Mab hath been with you ; She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an...little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : * " Mab," says Voss, one of the German translators of Shakspeaje, " is not the Fairy-queen, the same... | |
| William Howard Gardiner - 1834 - 82 pages
...rather a combination of machines ; and, pointing out minute portions of its organized substance, some " In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman," confidently declare, that this little structure contains all the delicate watchwork which tunes the... | |
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