 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 shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.  Miltoni Comus - Page 18by John Milton - 1863 - 121 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 354 pages
...to the moon in wavering morrice move ; 116 And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert faeries and the dapper elves. • /• By dimpled brook, and...brim, •• . The wood-nymphs deck'd with daisies frim, 120 Their merry wakes and pastimes keep: What hath night to do with sleep ? Night hath better... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, US Now to the moon in waving morrice move; Anil on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elvet By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, The Wood Nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, 120 Their merry... | |
 | 1820 - 608 pages
...years. The sounds ала seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move; And on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert...dapper elves. By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, The wood nymphs decked with daisies trim, There merry wakes and pastimes keep, What hath night to do with... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...and the dapper elves, By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes -and pastimes keep ; What hath night to do with steep ? Night hath better sweets to prove, Venus now wakes, and wakens love. Come, let us our rites... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 pages
...Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert faeries and the dapper elves. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The Woodnymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep; What hath night to do with sleep? Night hath better sweets to... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, 115 Now to the moon in wavering morrice move; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies...and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep ? lous head,~] It was at first in the Manuscript, And ijiiu-k Lav with her scrupulous head. 108. The... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; her tutor will affect Devotion, duty, and respect, He fairly abdicates Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep? Night hath better sweets to... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; 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 trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. What hath night to do with sleep ? Night hath better sweets to... | |
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