 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...  History of English literature, tr. by H. van Laun - Page 92by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1873Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...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 - 554 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...sleep. SHAKSPEARECHAP. XXIV. QUEEN MAB. O THEN I see queen Mab has been with you. She is the fancy's midwife, and' she comes In shape no bigger than an...Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs •The traced, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams ; Her whip, of... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. ON DREAMS. 0, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies'...an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies* J Athwart men's noses as thev lie asleep: Her wagon-spokes made of long spinner's legs; The cover,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. ON DREAMS. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath heen with yon. She is the Fairies' midwife; and she comes In shape...atomies* Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : • Her wagon-spokes made of long spinner's legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces of the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 416 pages
...plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite. She leaves it to Fancy to describe Queen Mab as coming, " In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an Alderman." a 6 Having to speak of stature, she does not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as Pompey's... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...for these vile guns He would himself hare been a soldier." HENRT 4Ui. ", O then I see queen Mab has 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pages
...often lie. Rom. In hed asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. O, then, I see queen Mah hath heen with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no higger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...words. — Lord Bacon. DCCCCXXXIII. Horn. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. Her. O, then I see; queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies'...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the... | |
 | 1829 - 48 pages
...« the fairies' midwife » and of her vagaries — the subject of the second design : « О , then , I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies'...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... | |
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