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
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morriee move ; Hazlitt deek'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep ?... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...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...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... | |
| 1826 - 416 pages
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| 1829 - 658 pages
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| John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 pages
...Order Cmpositee Discoidece. Corymbiferen, Juss. A Genus of the Syngenesia Polygamia SuperJlua Class. By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with Daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. MILTON'S Comus. THE Daisy has been made the emblem of Innocence,... | |
| 1835 - 240 pages
...foe." CHAPTER XI. " By dimpled brook, and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs, decked with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep— What hath night to do with sleep '" MILTON. AI/THOCGH the comrades of Blackbeard had so readily undertaken to aid him in the accomplishment... | |
| George Field - 1835 - 310 pages
...paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom, extracting liquid sweets. MILTON. A IK! on tin: tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. Contrasted, &c. No ivory work my halls infold, Nor arched ceilings gleaming gold ; Nor bear Hymettian... | |
| British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move; And on the Uwuy sands and shelves, Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves; By dimpled brook, and fountain-brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep." How... | |
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