 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 582 pages
...dream things true. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate- stone ", On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawa with a team of little atomies >Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : $ao Her waggon spokes... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...Mab hath been with She is the Fancy's midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman ; Drawn by a team...little atomies , Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her wagon spokes made of long spinner's leg's ; The cover of the wings of grasshoppers 5 The traces—... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...dream things true. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife;5 and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate- stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies6 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon-spokes made of long... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...Fr. achates, Lat.] A precious stone of the lowest class, often clouded with beautiful variegations. In shape no bigger than an agate stone, On the forefinger of an alderman. Sbaljfrarc. Agatci are only varieties of the flint Kind ; they have a grey horny ground, clouded, lineated,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...accumulation of the images attending it, that I ever met with, is in Shakspeare's description of queen Mab. She comes, In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman ; Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses, as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes made of long... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...VII.— Description of Mab, Queen of the Fairies.— SHAKESPEARE. SHE is the fancy's midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone, On the fore finger of an Alderman ; Drawn by a team of little atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite. She leaves it to Fancy to describe Queen Mab as coming, " In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the fore-finger of an Alderman." Having to speak of stature, she does not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as PomVOL. i.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite. She leaves it to Fancy to describe Queen Mab as coming, "In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the fore-finger of an. Alderman." Having to speak of stature, she does not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as PomVOL. i.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...her equipage, one of the most exquisite pictures of frolic imagination, is thus minutely drawn : " O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She comes...agate stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies : — Her waggon-spokes made of long spinner's legs ; The cover, of the... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...i« the fancy's midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger lhan an tgate stone, On the fore finger of an Alderman ; Drawn by a team of little atomies, Athwart men's noses as the) lie asleep ; Her wagon s.poktSj made of long spinner's legs: •" , - ' • The cover, of the... | |
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She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her waggon spokes made of long spinners... 
