...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...cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There every herd by sad experience knows How wing'd with fate their elf-shot arrows fly When the sick...

...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 Puck, "thou lob...

...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...sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warbl* jocund notes. "The poetic language of our eighteenth century in general," says Matthew Arnold,...

...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...cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There every herd, by sad experience, knows How, winged with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the...

...birken shade on mead or hill. I. Home, thou return'st from Thames, whose naiads long — Anon. ed. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To...cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. 25 There ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly; When...

...thy feet; Where still, 'tta said, the fairy people meet. Beneath each blrken ahade, or mead, or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store. To...cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. Sir Walter Scott's variously accomplished friend, William Erskine, afterward Lord Kinnedder, wrote...

...birken shade on mead or hill. 1. Home, thou return'st from Thames, whose naiads long — Anon. ed. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To...cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. 25 There ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly ; When...

...birken shade on/mead or hill. 1. Home, thou return'st from Thames, whose naiads long — Anon. ed. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To...cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. 25 There ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly ; When...

...Scotland (1788) — " 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 Bowls allots ; By night they sip it round the Cottage door, While airy Minstrels warble jocund Notes."...

...hill. There each trim lass, that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowls allota ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes." Martin, in his description of the Western Islands of Scotland, p. 391, speaking of the Shetland Isles,...