 They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some...  The Pedigree of the Devil - Página 122por Frederic Thomas Hall - 1883 - 256 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1766 - 128 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...affairs. So thick the aery crowd 775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's...narrow room Throng numberless; like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 páginas
...lines in Paradise Lost, where the fallen spirits in Pandemonium contract their size to gain room, and Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 páginas
...wasted his impetuous-strength upon the air, had thus exposed himself to instant ruin. NUMBER XI. -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... | |
 | 1811 - 702 páginas
...similar one, which if the blind bard may be credited, his infernal spirits adopted. " Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's...sons Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throned numberless." . This poem is divided into two parts. The first commences with a most beautiful... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 páginas
...affairs. So thick the airy crowd 775 Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Mow less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race 780 Beyond... | |
 | John Black - 1806 - 260 páginas
...THE FAIRIES; A SCOTISH DRAMATIC PASTORAL, IN FIVE ACTS. WITH THREE PRELIMINART DISSERTATIONS. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1807 - 394 páginas
...extraordinary race of men, in proportion as population increases, are gradually reduced in size, " and less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room, " throng...like that pygmean race " beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves ;" or that they have some new world assigned them as a breeding-place, from which attempting... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 páginas
...thick the a;ry croi Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till the sign Behold a wonder ! they but now who see In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrowThrong numberless, like that pygmean ra< Beyond the Indian mount, or fatry elves, Whose midnight... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 páginas
...affairs. So thick the aery croud Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! They but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's...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... | |
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