...his prettiest passages; for prettiness can be applied to him as well as sublimity. He talks of fairy elves— ' Whose midnight revels by a forest side...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees.' At eighteen I could not bear this ' dreams;' I wanted reality; and I believe I was fully thirty before,...

...his prettiest passages ; for prettiness can be applied to him as well as sublimity. He talks of fairy elves — ' Whose midnight revels by a forest side...fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees.' At eighteen I could not bear this ' dreams;' I wanted reality ; and I believe I was full thirty before,...

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...following Sfakian story also has a resemblance to the legends of our northern mythology, with its ' fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or...sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitresa ; — they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear." " Two men...

...in the Danish book, and not a whit less marvellous than such as I have already told — " . of fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side, Or...some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees; while over head the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course." My tales, however,...

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...earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees ; while over head the moon Sits...

...frolics and gambols, instead of devouring him. ' Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund...