 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1824 - 486 pages
...Why, may one ask ? Rom. I dreamt a dream to-night. Mer. Ha ! ha ! a dream ? O, then, I see, Queen Mah hath been with you. 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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 440 pages
...description, which hath been much celebrated, one sees he has had an eye to Virgil's thunderbolts. O, then I see queen Mab hath been with you. She is...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pages
...She Is the fairies' midwife ; and ehe comea In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-lluger 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' legs ; The cover, of the wing» of grasshoppers ; The trace»,... | |
 | John Bull - English wit and humor - 1825 - 782 pages
...Kugland. QUECN »AB. She i . the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bisrcer than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, * Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's nosos as thev lie asleep : 1 1er waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The jover, of the win^s... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...to superfluous actions in general, occurs again in The Merry Wives of Windsor. See vol. ip 208. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife 13 ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman ]4 , Drawn... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 642 pages
...ip 208. " The quarto of 1597 reads, ' Three times a day;' and right wits instead of five. wits. Mer. O , then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife I3 ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman '*, Drawn... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...tears: What is it else? a madness most discreet, A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. ON DREAMS. 0, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is...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* J Athwart men's... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - Elocution - 1828 - 314 pages
...for these vile guns He would himself hare been a soldier." HENRT 4Ui. ", O then I see queen Mab has been with you, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1828 - 448 pages
...hath heen with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no higger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...man's words. — Lord Bacon. DCCCCXXXIII. Horn. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. Her. O, then I see; queen Mab hath been with you. She is...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... | |
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Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the smallest spider's web, The collars of the moonshine's watery beams... 
