...over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on tlmir mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his...ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduc'd their shapes immense, and were at large, 790 Though...

...Critias, kis dearest fictamy. IEID. BELATED, late, tardy. Milton uses it to signify benighted. • Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest .side Or fountain some belated peasant sees. PAR. LOST, BELATED, laid over or adorned. All in a woodman's jacket he was elad, Of Lincolnc greene,...

...peasant saw, Or dreamed he saw, while overhead the moon Sat arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheeled her pale course — they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charmed his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Small circles marked the grass in solitary...

...Critias, his dearest belamn. I8IB. •« BELATED, late, tardy. Milton uses, it to signify benighted. i • Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some Mated peasant sees. PAH. LOST. BELAYED, laid over or adorned. All in a woodman's jacket he was clad,...

...peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while over head the moon Sits arhitress, and nearer to the earth 7H5 Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and...charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rehounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense, and were at large,...

...dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or...sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Siis arbiiress, and nearer to the eanh Wheels her pale course : they, on their mirth and dance Intent,...

...dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that Pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or...ear : At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense, and were ai large, Though...

...and Wieland's Oberon. Milton, too, — even the sublime Milton — has stooped to celebrate - Those fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side,...he sees ; while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Collins has exercised the powers of his fancy on subjects of this sort, and has celebrated many a witch-told...

...petits nains, s'entassent sans nombre dans un espace étroit : ils Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or...sees, Or dreams he sees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitrées, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course : they, on their mirth and dalice Intent,...

...one of his prettiest passages; for prettiness can be applied to him as well as sublimity. He talks of fairy elves— ' Whose midnight revels by a forest...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees.' At eighteen I could not bear this ' dreams;' I wanted reality; and I believe I was fully thirty before,...