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 waggon-spokes... Dictionary of Quotations (English) - Seite 185von Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1908 - 510 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Laconics - 1829 - 358 Seiten
...words.—Lord Bacon, DCCCCXXXIII. Mer. O, then I see; queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fames' midwife; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an aldennan, Drawn with a team of little atomics Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon-spokes... | |
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1831 - 302 Seiten
...the exercise of pure Fancy, as contradistinguished from Imagination. " O, then, I see, Queen Mab has been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she...little atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 Seiten
...use—/ am dont, for, it it over with me. Rem. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She...is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bi^er Uian an agate-stone On the fore-linger of an old alderman, Drawn with a team uf Utile atomic:)1... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 Seiten
...fairies' midwife ; and «he comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an old alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies' Athwart...as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wing« of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web... | |
| Thomas Keightley - 1833 - 396 Seiten
...of credit and renown in Faery. " I dreamed a dream to-night," says Romeo. " O then," says Mercutio : O then, I see queen Mab hath been with you ; She is...little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : * " Mab," says Voss, one of the German translators of Shakspeaje, " is not the Fairy-queen, the same... | |
| James Hedderwick - 1833 - 232 Seiten
...in one red burial blent ! QUEEN MAE. OH, then, I see Queen Mab has been with you, She is the fancy's midwife: and she comes In shape no bigger than an...as they lie asleep: Her waggon-spokes, made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest spider's web;... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1835 - 334 Seiten
...had an eye to Virgil's thunderbolts. Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fancy's midwife ; and she comes, In shape no bigger than an...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her wagon-spokes made of long spinner's leg* ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
| Oxonian - 1835 - 386 Seiten
...has been with you. 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...atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces of... | |
| Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1835 - 380 Seiten
...has been with you. 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...atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces uf... | |
| BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836 - 648 Seiten
...ours? Mer. That dreamers often lie. Rorn. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. Oh then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is...as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the smallest spider's web;... | |
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