 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...stone. A succession of short syllables gives the impression of quick motion : as, in Milton, — While on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. The works of Homer and Virgil abound with instances of this beauty, which are so often quoted, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...quire, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and n lofty style to make replies, Which he had taught...affect Devotion, duty, and respect, He fairly abdicates wood-nymphs deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, 115 Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on...dapper elves. By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs deck'd with daisies trim, 120 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...quire, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon...And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert faeries and the dapper elves. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...choir. Who in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; 116 And 011 the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. By dimpled brook,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...quire, Who, in their nightly watehful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and j@ morriee move ; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. By dimpled... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...quire, Who in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the.months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon...dapper elves. By dimple'd brook, and fountain brim, The Wood-Nymphs deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep: What hath night to do with... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...quire, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the Moon...And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert faeries and the dapper elves, By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...dapper. The dapper dilteis that I won't devise To please youths' fancy. Sptruer. Shepherd's Calender. And on the tawny sands and shelves. Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. Millón. A pert dapper spark of a magpie fancied the birds would never be governed till himself should... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...shewed a country village, miirrice-duncing, and peasants together by the ears. Peaeham. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morricc move. Milton. There went about the country a set of morriccdancers, composed of ten men, who... | |
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We that are of purer fire Imitate the starry quire. Who in their nightly watchful spheres Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on the tawny sands and... 
