 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.  Bell's Edition - Page 91by John Bell - 1788Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1857 - 274 pages
...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, by lake, or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains, at curfew time," and the protection... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859 - 492 pages
...horrid shades, And gawning dens where glaring monsters house, She may pass on, ete. 432. Nag more, no evil thing that walks by night, In fog, or fire, by lake, or mwrie fen, Blue wrinkled hag, ete. 448. That wise Minerva wore, aeternal [unvanquish'd] virgin. 452.... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say,...meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magick chains at Curfeu time, 435 No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1861 - 734 pages
...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,...moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost M« That breaks his magic chains at Curfeu time, No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful... | |
 | John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, +30 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1863 - 140 pages
...dwells, By grots, and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say...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... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1911 - 510 pages
...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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