| Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1835 - 380 strani
...Mercuric, is an admirable illustration : — O, then I see, Queen Mab has been with you. She is the fancy's midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an...atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces uf... | |
| Oxonian - 1835 - 386 strani
...Mercurio, is an admirable illustration : — O, then I see, Queen Mab has been with you. She is the fancy's midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an...atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces of... | |
| 1835 - 802 strani
...' Drawn with a team of little atomics, Athwart men's uoses, as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings...smallest spider's web; The collars of the moonshine's wat'ry heains : Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film : Her waggoner, a small gray-coated... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 334 strani
...hath been with you. She is the fancy's midwife ; and she comes, In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her wagon-spokes made of long spinner's leg* ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
| BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836 - 648 strani
...hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 614 strani
...hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinner's legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 602 strani
...celebrated, one sees he has had an eye to Virgil's thunderbolts. Her waggon-spokes made of long spinner's legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The...smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams," &C. Even in describing fantastic beings there is a propriety to be observed ; but surely... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 618 strani
...celebrated, one sees he has had an eye to Virgil's thunderbolts. Her waggon-spokes made of long spinner's legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The...of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonthine't tea fry beam*," &c. Even in describing fantastic beings there is a propriety to be observed... | |
| 1841 - 884 strani
...Shakspeare thus speaks of her : — " Oh I then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fancy's midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an...agate stone, On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn by a team of little atomies Across men's noses as they He asleep. Her waggon spokes made of long spinners'... | |
| 1839 - 596 strani
...the most part, generalisations of well-known classes in daily life. " Queen Mab hath been with you : She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes, In shape...Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. • # # * # Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat ; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel,... | |
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