 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 pages
...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, winged with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When the... | |
 | John Milton - 1924 - 232 pages
...standing fee." There is the same allusion in Collins' Ode on the Popular Superstitions oftht Highlands: "There, each trim lass that skims the milky store, To the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots." 108. Shadowy, ie without substance, unreal. 109. Some say that here and in Coriolanus, v. 6. 37, eitcits... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 364 pages
...Highlands, 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/... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 pages
...thy feet, Where still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet ao 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. 25 There ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly ; When... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 652 pages
...still, 'tis said, the fairy people meet 2o Beneath each birijen shade on mead or hill. There each tnm lass that skims the milky store To the swart tribes...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... | |
 | William Collins - 1907 - 146 pages
...said, the fairy people meet Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. ODE ON POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS 67 There each trim lass that skims the milky store To...creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. There every herd, by sad experience, knows... | |
 | William Collins - 1907 - 140 pages
...Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill, <, *" There each trim lass that skims the milky storeTo the swart tribes their creamy bowl allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage-door, While airy jninstrels warble jocund notes. There every herd, by sad experience, knows... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 564 pages
...feet, Where still, 't is said, the fairy people meet 20 Beneath each birken shade on mead or hill. There each trim lass that skims the milky store To...door, / While airy minstrels warble jocund notes. 25 There ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, winged with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly, When... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 pages
...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 bowls allots ; By night they sip it round the cottage door, While airy minstrels warble jocund notes.... | |
 | James Wilson Bright, Raymond Durbin Miller - 1910 - 186 pages
...thy feet, Where still, 't is 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 ev'ry herd, by sad experience, knows How, wing'd with fate, their elf-shot arrows fly; When the... | |
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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... 
