 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.  Comus: A Mask - Page 31by John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...dwells, By grots, and caverns shaeged with horrid shade*, She may pass on with unUenched majesty ; Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say,...fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubl<orn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...simple mountaineers, both in Scotland and Wales, believe that in the neighbourhood of this tree • " No evil thing that walks by night In fog or fire,...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, — No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power." This superstitious... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...dwells, By grots, and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say...night, In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, 435 No goblin, or... | |
 | Fashion - 738 pages
...writings, to have moved in a charmed circle, near which " No evil thing that walks by night In fog or flre, by lake or moorish fen — Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks Ms magic chains at Curfew time — No goblin, or swart fair}1 of the mine Hath hurtful pow'r." When... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...dwells By grots, and caverns shagged with horrid shades, Slie may pass on with unblenched majesty, Be it not done in pride or in presumption. Some say,...night, In fog, or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagei hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost. That breaks his magic chains at curfeu lime ; No goblin, or swart... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...dwells, By grots, and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, 430 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say...night, In fog, or fire, by lake, or moorish fen, Blue meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, 435 No goblin, or... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...dwells, By grots, and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say...meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No gobliu or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Desolalion dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at Curie» time, 435 No goblin, or... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...desolation dwells, By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say,...meagre 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.... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1843 - 592 pages
...noble enthusiasm of this passage, that he has no less than three imitations of it. Twice in Comus : ' Some say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog...stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time ; No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity : ' [v.... | |
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