...entertainment is protracted through the cool and stilly hours of the night, . . . . while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course. : If a visit to Tnnisfallen happen to be made for the first time under favourable circumstances, when...

...Eclog. viii. 69. Wheels her pale courfe ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, "with jocund mufick charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal Spirits to fmalleft forms Reduc'd their (hapes immenfe, and were at large, Though...

...narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elvesj Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some...they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund musick charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal Spirits to smallest...

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...numberless, like that Pygmean rate Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by :> forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-bead the Moo» Set arbitress, and nearer to earth Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth...

...Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitress, aud-iicarcr to the earth 785 Wheels hi r pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once w itli joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spi'rits to smallest forms Keduc'd thtir shapes...

...Milton, in conformity with these passages, describes his fairy night-scene : — " Faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some...they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund musick charm his ear." Todd's Milton, 2d edit. vol. ii. pp. 368, 3G9. The music here alluded to is...

...narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some...ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds." I can only give another instance , though I have some difficulty in leaving off. " Round he surveys...

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...numberless ; like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount, or fairy elves, 780 Whose midnight revels, br a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he see?, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale corse, they,...