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... fairy lore . This date also agrees with some- what doubtful allusions which have been discerned in the play itself . Of these the most trustworthy appears to be Titania's description of the unseasonable weather re- sulting from her ...
... fairy lore . This date also agrees with some- what doubtful allusions which have been discerned in the play itself . Of these the most trustworthy appears to be Titania's description of the unseasonable weather re- sulting from her ...
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... fairy lore , he created more than he borrowed . The English - speaking world of to - day has taken its conception of the fairy kingdom from Shake- speare to an even greater extent than our forefathers took their demonology from Milton ...
... fairy lore , he created more than he borrowed . The English - speaking world of to - day has taken its conception of the fairy kingdom from Shake- speare to an even greater extent than our forefathers took their demonology from Milton ...
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... fairies exist for us as his imagination made them . Fairy Lore before Shakespeare . Fairy literature is a province by itself , and those who are curious about such matters in relation to this play will find them excellently set forth by ...
... fairies exist for us as his imagination made them . Fairy Lore before Shakespeare . Fairy literature is a province by itself , and those who are curious about such matters in relation to this play will find them excellently set forth by ...
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... Fairy's account of Puck's doings in A Midsummer - Night's Dream , II . i . 32-4I . " Robin Goodfellow . . . would supply the office of servants specially of maids : as to make a fire in the ... fairy dances . There are fairy Introduction xi.
... Fairy's account of Puck's doings in A Midsummer - Night's Dream , II . i . 32-4I . " Robin Goodfellow . . . would supply the office of servants specially of maids : as to make a fire in the ... fairy dances . There are fairy Introduction xi.
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William Shakespeare John William Cunliffe. " Re- livens with fairy dances . There are fairy dances and songs in Lyly's Endymion , which was printed in 1591 , and Lyly in the prologue to The Woman in the Moon says , member all is but a ...
William Shakespeare John William Cunliffe. " Re- livens with fairy dances . There are fairy dances and songs in Lyly's Endymion , which was printed in 1591 , and Lyly in the prologue to The Woman in the Moon says , member all is but a ...
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Page 24 - That very time I saw (but thou couldst not), Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Page 93 - That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide : And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream...
Page 78 - And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear.
Page 6 - But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
Page 9 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 53 - All schooldays' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key, As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate. So we grew together Like to a double cherry, seeming parted But yet an union in partition...
Page 18 - Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be: In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.
Page 24 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 22 - The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in vain, The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn Hath rotted ere his youth attain'da beard : The fold stands empty in the drowned field, And crows are fatted with the murrain flock...
Page 24 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, — And maidens call it love-in-idleness.