 Indian mount, or fairy elves, 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,...  Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ... - Page 165by John Milton - 1795Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...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...ear: At once with joy, and fear, his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduc'd their shapes immense, and were at large, Though... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...fountain, some helated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees ; while over head the moon 785 Sits arhitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they,...charm his ear : At once with joy, and fear, his heart rehounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms 790 Reduc'd their shapes immense, and were at... | |
 | 1842 - 468 pages
...frolics and gambols, instead of devouring him. ' Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.' Though, as we have seen, weak children were unscrupulously sacrificed at Sparta, they still made offerings... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight r of their bower. God to render man inexcusable, tends...admonish him of his obedience, of his free estate, Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduce their shapes immense, and were at largo Though without... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight , Or grace mankind ; and what he taught he was. Compounded...pure strain, Like the clear brook that steals along Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduce their shapes immense, and were at large Though without... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...rest; And meditate;—and beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave. 1 Fairy elves Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated...Or dreams he sees, while, overhead, the moon Sits arbitress.I know a bank, whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxslip and the nodding violet grows, O'ercanopied... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...in conformity with these passages, describes his bin isri1 scene :— " Faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side. Or fountain, some belated...sees. Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitrées, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent,... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount: or fairy elves, Whose 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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side, Or fountain , some belated peasant sees , Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitrées , and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course : they , on their mirth and dance Intent,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
...Thus Milton, in conformity with these passages, describes hi> fairj nighlu Faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams ht see», while over-head the moon Sits arbitros«, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course... | |
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