A bigger kind there is of them, called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those superstitious times, grind corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work. Origins of English History - Seite 209von Charles Isaac Elton - 1890 - 450 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| LUDWIG HERRIC - 1864 - 980 Seiten
...neeze, and swear A merrier hour was never wasted there. — But room, Faery, he comes Oberon. [hat would in those superstitious times, grind corn for a mess of milk, cut •ood, or do any manner of drudgery work. They would mend old irons i" those Aeolian isles of Lipara,... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 Seiten
...1, subsect. i : "A bigger kind there is of them ["terrestrial devils "], called with us holgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would in those superstitious...grind corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any kind of drudgery work," &c. &c. Comp. Scotch "brownie." See Reginald Scott's Discoverie of Witckcrafte,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1877 - 184 Seiten
...do usually walk in little coats, some two foot long. A bigger kind there is of them, called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in...milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work . . . And so likewise those which Mizaldus calls Ambulones, that walk about midnight on great heaths... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1877 - 216 Seiten
...Burton (Anat. of Melancholy, i. 2) says : " A bigger kind there is of them [fairies], called with us Hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those...superstitious times, grind corn for a mess of milk," etc. Cf. " The Pranks of Puck," quoted " Yet now and then, the maids to please, I card, at midnight,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1877 - 202 Seiten
...Burton (Anat. of Melancholy, \. 2) says : " A bigger kind there is of them [fairies], called with us Hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in those...superstitious times, grind corn for a mess of milk," etc. Cf. "The Pranks of Puck," quoted "Yet now and then, the maids to please, I card, at midnight,... | |
| John Wesley Hales - 1878 - 772 Seiten
...Mel. I. ii. i, subsect. i; "A bigger kind there is of them ["terrestrial devils "], called with us hobgoblins and Robin Goodfellows, that would in those...grind corn for a mess of milk, cut wood, or do any kind of drudgery work," &c. &c. Comp. Scotch "brownie." See Reginald Scott's Discoverie of Witchcrafte,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1879 - 190 Seiten
...do usually walk in little coats, some two foot long. A bigger kind there is of them, called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would, in...milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work . . . And so likewise those which Mizaldus calls Ambulones, that walk about midnight on great heaths... | |
| Robert Burton - 1880 - 516 Seiten
...do usually walk in little coats, some two feet long. A bigger kind there is of them called with us hobgoblins, and Robin Goodfellows, that would in those...milk, cut wood, or do any manner of drudgery work. They would mend old irons in those .ZEolian isles of Lipari, in former ages, and have been often seen... | |
| Charles Isaac Elton - 1882 - 506 Seiten
...said his ancient authors, they had some such familiar spirits, and they were common in many places of France. " Paracelsus reckons up many places in Germany...Fortunes," whom Gervase of Tilbury professed to have known in England.1 They are described as little old men with patched coats, who help in the housework... | |
| Charles Isaac Elton - 1882 - 506 Seiten
...said his ancient authors, they had some such familiar spirits, and they were common in many places of France. " Paracelsus reckons up many places in Germany...Fortunes," whom Gervase of Tilbury professed to have known in England.1 They are described as little old men with patched coats, who help in the housework... | |
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