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" 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 made of long spinners... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ... - Page 56
by William Shakespeare - 1813
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors

J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...alderman. Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover of the wings...smallest spider's web ; The collars of the moonshine's watery beams ; Her whip of cricket's bone ; the lash of lilm : Her wagoner a small grey-coated gnat,...
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The Fairy Mythology, Volume 2

Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828 - 392 pages
...is very uncertain. Is it a contraction of Habundia, who, Heywood tells us, ruled over the Fairies? Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The...grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collar, of the moonshine's watery beams : Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film : Her waggoner,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...atomies' Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of lone spinners' leg« ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces,...Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, Not half so biz as a round little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty nazle-nut,...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings...Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film; Her wagonner, a small grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...aldennan, Drawn with a team of little atomics Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings...Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film; Her wagonner, a small grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger...
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The Gallery of Shakspeare, Or, Illustrations of His Dramatic Works: Romeo ...

1829 - 48 pages
...of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep i Her waggon-spokes made of long-spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The...smallest spider's web; The collars , of the moonshine's watery beams : Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lasb , of film : Her waggoner, a small grey-coated...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...spinner's legs : The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; 21 The collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams : Her...cricket's bone ; the lash, of film ; Her waggoner, a small gray coated gnat ; Her chariot is an empty hazle nut, Made by the joiner Squirrel, or old Grub, Time...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...this nocturnal agency.— On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies 1 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes...grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel,...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 8

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 638 pages
...nocturnal agency. — T. WABTOK. On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies1 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes...grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel,...
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Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets: Designed ..., Part 1

Henry Nelson Coleridge - Greek poetry - 1830 - 262 pages
...no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes...grey-coated gnat, Not half so big as a round little worm Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel,...
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