Some say no evil thing that walks by night. In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. Comus: A Mask - Stran 31avtor: John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Book - 1854 - 496 strani
...desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say,...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1854 - 976 strani
...this раэдаес, that he has no leas thun three imitation« of it. Twice in Comiu •• ' Home say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire,...stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time; No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity : ' [v.... | |
| John Brand - 1854 - 560 strani
...quoque mos ad capita virginum apponendi florum coronas," &c. Cass. de Vet. Sac. Christi, p. 334. 2 " Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish feu, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew-time, No goblin,... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 564 strani
...desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say,...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfeu time, No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 900 strani
...majesty, ** Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some eay, no evil thing that walks by nigbtJ In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen," Blue meagre...stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time,1 «" No goblin, or swart faery of the mine," I Unblench'd. CTnblinded, nnconfounded. —... | |
| Henry Pitman - 1316 strani
...hidden strength. Tig chastity, my brother, chastity ; She that has that is clad in complete steel. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time ; No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| Elizabeth Strutt - 1857 - 274 strani
...as of chivalry, are passed. Kuffians and pickpockets are more dreaded, in the present age, than any -evil thing, that walks by night, In fog, or fire,...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains, at curfew time," and the protection of the police more relied upon than that of the ,... | |
| John Milton - 1857 - 664 strani
...desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagged with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, Jn fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 strani
...desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride or in presumption. Some say...meagre hag or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
| Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1911 - 510 strani
...changed into bestial shapes (Comus 50, 695 ; Endymion III 500). And the passage in Comus 432 — 3 : "no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen" may have been present in Keats's memory when he wrote of "the fog-born elf Whose flitting lantern,... | |
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