 Some say no evil thing that walks by night. In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.  Comus: A Mask - Seite 31von John Milton - 1791 - 66 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins - 1836 - 530 Seiten
...dwells, By grots, and caverns shaeged with horrid shade*, She may pass on with unUenched majesty ; Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say,...fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubl<orn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837
...simple mountaineers, both in Scotland and Wales, believe that in the neighbourhood of this tree • " No evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire,...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, — No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power." This superstitious... | |
 | John Mitford - 1838
...dwells, By grots, and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say...night, In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, 435 No goblin, or... | |
 | ...writings, to have moved in a charmed circle, near which " No evil thing that walks by night In fog or flre, by lake or moorish fen — Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks Ms magic chains at Curfew time — No goblin, or swart fair}1 of the mine Hath hurtful pow'r." When... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839
...dwells By grots, and caverns shagged with horrid shades, Slie may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride or in presumption. Some say,...night, In fog, or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagei hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost. That breaks his magic chains at curfeu lime ; No goblin, or swart... | |
 | John Milton - 1839
...dwells, By grots, and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say...night, In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, 435 No goblin, or... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 716 Seiten
...dwells, By grots, and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No gobliu or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 807 Seiten
...Desolalion dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at Curie» time, 435 No goblin, or... | |
 | John Milton - 1843
...desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say,...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1843 - 11 Seiten
...noble enthusiasm of this passage, that he has no less than three imitations of it. Twice in Comus : ' Some say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog...stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time ; No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity : ' [v.... | |
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