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| William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...LVI. Jïlab. 0, THEN, I see, Queen Mab hath heen 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, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses, as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...Мег. О ! then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes ! E ! Drawn with a team of little atomies Over men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...[Queen ¡fab.] 0 then, I see queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and »he comes e, and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring ti Drawn with a team of little atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her wagon-spokes made... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1849 - 668 pages
...the reverse of these, arc the desires and demands of the Imagination. She recoils from every thing but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite. She...fore-finger of an alderman.' Having to speak of stature, she docs not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as Pompey's Pillar ; much less that he was twelve... | |
| 1866 - 674 pages
..." Mercutio. О 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 forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes," &c.—Act... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...EXERCISE LXXVI. Description of Mab, Queen of the Fairies. 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 with a team of little atomies, 5 Athwart men's noses, as they lie asleep ; Her wagon spokes made... | |
| Brand - 1849 - 544 pages
...it into the mouth of Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet: " She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes I n shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon-spokes made... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...QUEEN MAI'.. OH, 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, Drawn by a team of little atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...BEN. I., 2. 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, drawn with a team of little atomies athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.—MER. I., 4. O, that I... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 602 pages
...judging reader. " 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, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her wagon-spokes made... | |
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