 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1881 - 632 pages
...land to which thou set'st thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass that...skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 pages
...land to which thou set'st thy feet ; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people^eet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass that...skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | 1881 - 456 pages
...to which thou set'st thy feet ; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There each trim lass, that...the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 368 pages
...hobgoblins, tiny creatures, visiting the peasant's hut in the silence of the night, he also refers : — " There, each trim lass, that skims the milky store,...cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes." The malicious disposition of the elves is thus insisted upon : — " There every herd, by sad experience,... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 pages
...to which thou sett'st thy feet ; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill, There, each trim lass, that...notes. There, every herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the sick ewe her summer food foregoes, Or, stretch'd... | |
 | Ellen Emma Guthrie - 1885 - 252 pages
...land to which thou sett'st thy feet, Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | John Milton - 1891 - 242 pages
...drudgery work." There is the same allusion in Collins' Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands: "There, each trim lass that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots." 108. Shadcnvy, ie without substance, unreal. 11o. Lubbar. Cf. Shakespeare's title for... | |
 | 1893 - 796 pages
...most effective means the poet produces the impression he desires. Take as a proof one lovely stanza : There each trim lass that skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warbl* jocund notes.... | |
 | 1893 - 732 pages
...lovely stanza : There each trim lass that skims the milky store To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warbl* jocund notes. " The poetic language of our eighteenth century in general," says Matthew Arnold,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 656 pages
...to which thou set'st thy feet ; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass that skims the milky storff To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door,... | |
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There must thou wake perforce thy Doric quill; Tis Fancy's land to which thou sett'st thy feet; Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet, Beneath each birken shade, on mead or hill. There, each trim lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart... 
