 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 - 1847 - 604 pages
...presumption. 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 curfeu time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. Do ye believe me yet,... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...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,...ghost That breaks his magic chains at Curfeu time, No goblin, or swart 6 faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. Do ye believe me yet,... | |
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...qnoque mos ad capita virginum apponendi florum coronas," 4c. Casa. de Vet. Sac. Christi, p. 334. 3 " 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1895 - 666 pages
...the above lines Collins seems to be remembering Milton : — No evil thing that walks by night In fo^ or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chain at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine. 'Comas.' In the third ode is the line :... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 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,...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unhlench'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 - 1851 - 508 pages
...{hades, She may pafs on with unblench't majefty, Be it not don in pride, or in prefumption. 430 Som fay no evil thing that walks by night In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorim fen, Blew meager Hag, or ftubborn unlaid ghoft, That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time,... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, ? To patch, nay ogle, may become a saint ; Nor could...paint, But since, alas, frail beauty must decay ; tho mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity. Do ye believe me yet, or shall I call Antiquity from... | |
 | Adrien Rouquette - Asceticism - 1852 - 170 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,...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... | |
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