| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 582 pages
...; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate- stone ", On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawa with a team of little atomies >Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : $ao Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grashopper,s ; The... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. 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... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...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 wagon spokes made of long spinner's leg's ; The cover of the wings of grasshoppers 5 The traces—... | |
| 1805 - 456 pages
...midwife, and she comes, In shape no higger than an agate stone On the fore -finger of an alderman, 't' Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's...waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover ef the wings of grasshoppers; The traces of the smallest spider's web ; The collar of the moonshine's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...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 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... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...She is the fancy's midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agat-su.ne 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 of long spinner's legsj. The cover, ot the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1807 - 374 pages
...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 spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grashoppers ; The traces, of... | |
| Elizabeth Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 418 pages
...she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore finger of an alderman, Drawn with the team of little atomies, Athwart men's noses, as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinner's legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
| Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 416 pages
...she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore finger of an alderman, Drawn with the team of little atomies, Athwart men's noses, as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinner's legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of... | |
| John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...accumulation of the images attending it, that I ever met with, is in Shakspeare's description of queen Mab. She comes, In shape no bigger than an agate stone...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... | |
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