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. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ... - Seite 45von Walter Scott - 1841Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Brand - 1849 - 544 Seiten
...qnoque mos ad capita virginum apponendi florum coronas," 4c. Casa. de Vet. Sac. Christi, p. 334. 3 " Some say no evil thing that walks by night, in fog...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."... | |
| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 Seiten
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd* majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at Curfeu time, No goblin, or swart... | |
| 1895 - 666 Seiten
...Milton : — No evil thing that walks by night In fo^ or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chain at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine. 'Comas.' In the third ode is the line : — Soothed, sweetly sad, Electra's... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 Seiten
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...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.... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night In fog...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.... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 508 Seiten
...{hades, She may pafs on with unblench't majefty, Be it not don in pride, or in prefumption. 430 Som fay no evil thing that walks by night In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorim fen, Blew meager Hag, or ftubborn unlaid ghoft, That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time,... | |
| 1856 - 412 Seiten
...errant spirit as probably reprobate and outcast. He introduces him into very equivocal society : — "Evil thing that walks by night In fog, or fire, by...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his mngic chains at curfew time; .... Goblin, or swart fairy of the miue." And he elsewhere implies, that... | |
| 1852 - 874 Seiten
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. or could it sure be such a sin to paint, But since, alas, frail beauty must decay ; meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at Curfeu time, 435 No goblin, or... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 420 Seiten
...a sentimental conversation. In short, the two young persons, without positively designing any thing wrong, are in a fair way of rendering themselves guilty...stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chain at rut hu time, No goblin, nor swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful pow«r o'er true virginity." What... | |
| John Milton - 1853 - 372 Seiten
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at Curfeu time, No goblin, or swart... | |
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