| 1871 - 586 pages
...reason : "A rirtuous well, about whose flowery banks, Tbe nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds Br the pale moonshine, dipping oftentimes Their stolen...make them free From dying, flesh and dull mortality." Among the Scottish peasants it was believed that, when persons were afflicted with consumption, the... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...embraces, And ceremonious tying of ourselves. For to that holy wood is consecrate A Virtnons Well, the engines that I work by. 'Tis not alone The Lady...know they will be) Shall soon be mine ; but point : by this Fresh fountain many a blushing maid Hath crowned the head of her long-loved shepherd With... | |
| Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1876 - 768 pages
...— Conscious Lovers, p. 54. Fairies. " A VIRTUOUS well, about whose flowery banks The nimble footed fairies dance their rounds By the pale moonshine,...Their stolen children, so to make them free From dying псЛ, and dull mortality." BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Faithful Shepherdess, p. 112. Strange Conceit.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1880 - 390 pages
...streams and fountains : He tells us of " A virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble -footed Fairies dance their rounds, By the pale moonshine,...make them free From dying flesh and dull mortality." Faithful Shepherdess. It is sometimes accounted unlucky to pass such places, without performing some... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 558 pages
...lusty spring began. . . . For to that holy wood is consecrate A virtuous well, about whose fiow'ry banks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds,...many a chaste kiss given In hope of coming happiness: by this Fresh fountain many a blushing maid Hath crowned the head of her long-loved shepherd With gaudy... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...well, about whose flow'ry banks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds. By the pale moon-shiuc, dipping oftentimes Their stolen children, so to make...many a chaste kiss given In hope of coming happiness: by this ' Fresh fountain many a blushing maid Hath crowned the head of her long-loved shepherd With... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...virtuous well, about whose flow'ry banks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds, By the palu o lake such pains to inculcate, and whether I be really...falsehood, I should rt ply that this question in n chaste kiss given In hope of coming happiness: by this Fresh fountain many a blushing maid Hath crowned... | |
| William Minto - English poetry - 1885 - 436 pages
..." For in that holy wood is consecrate A virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble- footed fairies dance their rounds By the pale moonshine,...sworn And given away his freedom ; many a troth Been plighted, which nor Envy nor old Time Could ever break, with many a chaste kiss given, In hope of coming... | |
| Edward William Godwin - 1885 - 58 pages
...ceremonious tying of our souls : For to this holy wood is consecrate A virtuous well, about whose flow'ry banks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds,...free From dying flesh and dull mortality. By this fresh fountain, many a blushing maid Hath crown'd the head of her long-loved shepherd AMO. Thou hast... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1885 - 1108 pages
...consecrate A virtuous well, about whose flow'ry banki The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounda, By the pale moon-shine, dipping oftentimes Their stolen...make them free From dying flesh and dull mortality.' . , .' 'See the dew-drops, how they kiss Ev'ry little flower that is ; Hanging on their velvet heads,... | |
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