 Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough brier, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire, I do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners...  The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page 220by William Shakespeare - 1803Full view - About this book
 | 1853 - 574 pages
...Bottom. ACT II. SCENE I. P. 404. The Fairy, soon after meeting Puck, says, speaking of Titania, — " The cowslips tall her pensioners be ; In their gold...fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours." There seem several objections to this passage as it has stood in all editions. First, cowslips are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1854 - 424 pages
...wander every where, Swifter than the mooncs sphere ; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbsi upon the green : The cowslips tall her pensioners...hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. Farewell, thou lob2 of spirits, I'll be gone; Our queen and all her elves come here anon. Puck. The king doth keep... | |
 | Robert Bell - English drama - 1854 - 290 pages
...orbs* upon the green ; The cowslips tall her pensioners be ; In their gold coats spots you see, These be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their...dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. TITANIA IN THE WOOD. X YOU spotted snakes, with double tongue, Thorny hedge-hogs, be not seen; Newts,... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Animals - 1855 - 170 pages
...do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moone's sphere ; And 1 serve the fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green; The cowslips tall her pensioners be...favours, In those freckles live their savours. I must go and seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear." Midsummer Night's Dream. NOTE... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 966 pages
...easy task. It is not easy in the case of the following passage, which I will deal with more briefly : The cowslips tall her pensioners be ; In their gold...fairy favours. In those freckles live their savours ; (A Midsummer Night's Dream, II., i., 10-13). Here, surely, in spite of the rhymes, we have Shakespeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2014 - 228 pages
...do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be,...their savours. I must go seek some dew-drops here, 15 And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone; Our queen... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...representing itself, as it were, through the discourse of what in effect are its secret parts: Fairy. The cowslips tall her pensioners be, In their gold...those freckles live their savours. I must go seek some dew-drop here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. (2. 1. 10-15) The illusion created by the delicately... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...do wander everywhere, Swifter than the moones sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs GE WASHINGTON DOANE (1799-1859) Evening Contemplation 1 Softly now (II, ii) E1L; FaPON; GN; InvP; NOBE; OBEY; OBSC; TrGrPo 127 The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1994 - 692 pages
...everywhere Swifter than the moon's sphere, And I serve the Fairy Queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. 10 The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold...dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. (stage direction) at one door . . . at monly played by a young woman in anotbtr (a common direction... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...do wander every where, Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen. To dew her orbs is cheek looks pale, and with A rising sigh he wisheth...as oft as he hears Owen Glendower spoke of. OWEN lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon. PUCK. The king doth keep... | |
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