| Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 486 páginas
...Why, may one ask ? Rom. I dreamt a dream to-night. Mer. Ha ! ha ! a dream ? O, then, I see, Queen Mah 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,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 448 páginas
...description, which hath been much celebrated, one sees he has had an eye to Virgil's thunderbolts. O, then I see queen Mab hath been with you. She is the...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 páginas
...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...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; . Her waggon-spokes made of long spinner's 4egs ; The coverj of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces;, of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 páginas
...She Is the fairies' midwife ; and ehe comea In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-lluger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies • Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wing» of grasshoppers ; The trace»,... | |
| John Bull - 1825 - 782 páginas
...Kugland. QUECN »AB. She i . the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bisrcer than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, * Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's nosos as thev lie asleep : 1 1er waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The jover, of the win^s... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 páginas
...superfluous actions in general, occurs again in The Merry Wives of Windsor. See vol. ip 208. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife 13 ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman ]4 , Drawn... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 páginas
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 páginas
...208. " The quarto of 1597 reads, ' Three times a day;' and right wits instead of five. wits. Mer. O , then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife I3 ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman '*, Drawn... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 páginas
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 páginas
...superfluous actions in general, occurs again in The Merry Wives of Windlor. See vol. ip 208. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife13; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman14,... | |
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