 Pastorals," gives a picture of the kind of scenery to which I allude :— "A pleasant mead Where fairies often did their measures tread ; Which in the meadows makes such circles green As if with garlands it had crowned been. Within one of these rounds...  English country gentlemen - Page 125by Washington Irving - 1835Full view - About this book
 | John Brand, Henry Bourne - Christian antiquities - 1777 - 466 pages
...them. A pleafant Mead, Where Fairies often did their Meafures tread, Which in the Meadow made fuch Circles green, As if with Garlands it had crowned been. Within one of thefe Rounds was to be feen A Hillock rife, where oft the Fairy-Queen At Twilight fat, and did command... | |
 | John Evans - Wales, North - 1804 - 440 pages
...their measures tread, Which in the meadow made such circles green* As if with garlands it had crownded been. Within one of these rounds was to be seen, A...hillock rise, where oft the fairy queen At twilight sate, and did command those elves, To pinch those maids that had not swept the shelves ; And further... | |
 | John Brand - Great Britain - 1810 - 508 pages
...in them. •A pleasant Mead, Where Fairies often did their Measures tread, Which in the Meadow made such Circles green, As if with Garlands it had crowned...Rounds was to be seen A Hillock rise, where oft the Fairy-Queen At Twilight sat, and did command her Elves To pinch those Maids that had not nt'ept their... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1810 - 510 pages
...in them, •A pleasant Mead, Where Fairies often did their Measures tread, \\hich in the Meadow made such Circles green, As if with Garlands it had crowned been. Within one of these Rounds was to be seenA Hillock rise, where oft the Fairy-S.ueen At Twilight sat, and did command her Elves To pinch... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1812 - 1070 pages
...measures tread, Which in the meadow made such circles giecn, A> if with garlands it had crowned bcrn. Within one of these rounds was to be seen, A hillock rise, where oft the fairy queen As twilight sate, and did commune! those elves, To pinch those mnids that had not swept the shelves;... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 418 pages
...gives a picture of the kind of scenery to which I allude : • A pleasant mead Where fairies often did their measures tread ; Which in the meadows makes...poem ascribed to Ben Jonson. " By wells and rills in meadowes green, We nightly dance our hey-day guise, And to our fairy king and queen We chant our moonlight... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1822 - 416 pages
...gives a picture of the kind of scenery to which I allude : • A pleasant mead Where fairies often did their measures tread ; Which in the meadows makes...had crowned been. Within one of these rounds was to he seen A hillock rise, where oft the fairy queen At twilight sat." And there is another picture of... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - Folklore - 1822 - 670 pages
...those notions of cleanliness, that in early times recommended them to the notable English housewife : " Within one of these rounds was to be seen, A hillock rise, where oft the Fairie Queen At twilight sate, and did command her elves To pinch those maids that had not swept their... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...describes — A pleasant Mead, Where Fairies often did their measures tread, Which in the Meadows made such circles green As if with Garlands it had crowned...Hillock rise, where oft the Fairy Queen At twilight sat. ". They had fine music always among themselves," says the author of ' Round about our Coal Fire,' "... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1828 - 386 pages
...pleasant mead, Where fairies often did their measures tread, Which in the meadows made such circlets green, As if with garlands it had crowned been. •...these rounds was to be seen A hillock rise, where oft die Fairy-Queen At twilight sate. TBS FAIRY MYTHOLOGY. INTRODUCTION. ORIGIN OF T1IE BELIEF IN FAIRIES.... | |
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