...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...She recoils from every thing but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite. She leaves it to Fancy to describe Queen Mab as coming, "In shape no bigger...not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as PomVOL. i. c pey's Pillar ; much less that he was twelve cubits, or twelve hundred cubits high ; or...

...She recoils from every thing but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite. She leaves it to Fancy to describe Queen Mab as coming, " In shape no bigger...not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as PomVOL. i. c pey's Pillar; much less that he was twelve cubits, or twelve hundred cubits high; or that...

...She recoils from every thing but 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...

...inimitable description of Queen Mab the Queen of Fairies : — 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...

...diminutive person, in allusion to the figures cut in agate for rings, &c. Queen Mab is described, ' In shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an alderman.' See note on K. Henry IV. Part ii. If speaking, why a vane blown with all winds : If silent, why a block...

...diminutive person, in allusion to the figures cut in agate for rings, &c. Queen Mab is described, ' In shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an alderman.' See note on K. Henry IV. Part II. If speaking, why a vane blown with all winds : If silent, why a block...