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" Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back... "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 243
1820
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The Prose Workd of Mrs. Ellis: The poetry of life. Pictures of private life ...

Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 pages
...I'll fetch them, sir. PROSPERO. Ye elves, of hills, brooks, standing lakes, a And ye, that on t»e sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demy-puppets, that By moon-slilne do the green sour ringlets ninke, Whereof the ewe not bites; anil...
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The Poetry of Life

Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1845 - 196 pages
...themselves. ARIEL. I'll fetch them, sir. PROSPERO. Ye elves, of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and grove « ; And ye, that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, 158 150 When he courts back ; you demy-puppets, that By moon-shine do the preen sour ringlets make,...
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Xanthian Marbles: The Nereid Monument : an Historical and Mythological Essay

William Watkiss Lloyd - 1845 - 134 pages
...thalamis." Id. Laus Serenae, 79. The last lines will remind of Prospero's invocation of the elves, " that on the sands with printless foot, Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him returning waters and tide, came openly into the refluent rivers, hailing their mistress with acclaim,...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...life Is rounded with a sleep. (IV, i) FaBV; LiTB; OAEL-1; RB; TrGrPo 164 Ye elves of hills, brooks, @ . demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you...
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Redeeming the Text: Latin Poetry and the Hermeneutics of Reception

Charles Martindale - 1993 - 156 pages
...English, as when Shakespeare, in Prospero's renunciation speech, writes 'Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves; | And ye that on the sands...with printless foot ¡Do chase the ebbing Neptune' (Tempest v. 1.33-5). On occasion he will simply transliterate: Christians today would find it inconvenient...
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Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader

John Jay Chapman - 1998 - 244 pages
...anything in imaginative poetry. "Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves; And ye, that in the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back; you demi-puppets, that By moonshine do the sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you whose...
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The Gnostics

Tobias Churton - 1997 - 216 pages
...Prospero to enter and do his work of transformation and reconciliation: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves And ye that on the sands...ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green, sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you...
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Shakespeare's Ovid: The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems

A. B. Taylor - 2000 - 240 pages
...and allusive qualities when the intruding voice is that of another author: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands...ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you...
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 2000 - 60 pages
...power and force their repentance — he promises to abandon all sorcery. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves, And ye that on the sands...ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites; and you...
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Four Late Plays

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 436 pages
...they shall be themselves. ARIEL I'll fetch them, sir. [he goes PROSPERO Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye, that on the sands...ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites: and you,...
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