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Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland: The shefro. The ... - Page 1
by Thomas Crofton Croker - 1825
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 16

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...steel. Boyle. OVER-HEAD", adv. Over and head. Aloft; in the zenith ; above ; in th« ceiling. Over-head the moon Sits arbitress. and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. JUilttm'i Paradise /.<»/. The four stars over-head re;»«sent the four children. Adduoii. Now over-head,...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 8

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 pages
...secrets to unfold, Which lie from others reading. Drnjton. Fairy efoei, Whose midnight revels by some forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees Or dreams he sees. Miltun. From the like might proceed the fears of polling elvelocki, or complicated hairs of the head....
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The Annals of My Village: Being a Calendar of Nature, for Every Month in the ...

Mary Roberts - 1831 - 388 pages
...with the bright twinkling light of the female glow-worm ! How often does it bring to mind . " Those fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side...nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course." MILTON. But it is not only on green mossy banks, amid lanes and meadows, that this bright twinkling light awakens...
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The life of Henry Fuseli

Henry Fuseli - 1831 - 472 pages
...form of the Spirits assembled in the new-raised Hall of PANDEMONIUM, illustrated by a simile from , ' Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side...arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his...
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The life and writings of Henry Fuseli, the former written and the ..., Volume 1

Johann Heinrich Füssli - 1831 - 466 pages
...contracted form of the Spirits assembled in the new-raised Hall of PANDEMONIUM, illustrated by a simile from Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side...arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...smallest dwarfs, ia narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race 760 Beyond the Indian mount : or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side...some belated peasant sees Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on their...
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Cambrian Superstitions, Comprising Ghosts, Omens, Witchcraft, Traditions, &c ...

William Howells - 1831 - 220 pages
...midnight revels bv a Forest side Or fou»tam, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees while o'er head the moon Sits arbitress and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, they in their mirth and dance, Intent with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount, or Fairy Elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side,...head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear...
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A glossary and etymological dictionary of obsolete and uncommon words

William Toone - 1832 - 584 pages
...faire Critias, his dearest bclamy. IBID. BELATED, late, tardy. Milton uses it to signify benighted. • Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest 'side Or fountain some belated peasant Bees. PAR. I. .'IST. BELAYED, laid over or adorned. All in a woodman's jacket he was clad, Of Lincoln*;...
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Oeuvres de Delille, Volume 5

Jacques Delille - 1832 - 476 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 her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear...
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