 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.  The Foreign Quarterly Review - Page 891827Full view - About this book
 | 1811 - 620 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride or in presumption. Some say no evil thing that walks by night In fog...or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghosts That breaks his magick chains at curfew time. No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...noble enthusiam of trot passage, that he has no less than, three imitations of it. Twice in Conms. ' Some say, no evil thing that walks by night, ' In...moorish fen, ' Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid "host ' That breaks his magick chains at curfeu time; '' No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, ' Hath... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with imblench'd majesty. 434 Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfeu tyne, 43 > No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine. Hath hurtful pow'r o'er true virginity.... | |
 | Mary Hill (novelist.) - 1813 - 464 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unbleuch'd majesty; Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night, In fog, or fife, by lake, or moorish feo, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, Thnt bi-ca'is bis m.igic... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...desolation dwells. By grots, and caverns sbagg'd with shades, 754 SENTIMENTAL, LYRICAL, AND LUDICROUS. Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfeu time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful pow'r o'er true virginity.... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 pages
...horrid shade?, She may pass on with uublench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing, that walks by night In fog...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfeu time, No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...horrid shadev She may pass on with unblench'd majesty; Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog...hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful pOM-er o'er true virginity.... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...horrid shades. She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. h volant touch Traverse loquacious strings, whose solemn notes Provoke to harmless revel meager hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at Curfeu time, No gobliu, or swart... | |
 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1821 - 330 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night, In fog...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."... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...horrid shades, She may pass on with unblench'd majesty, Be it not done in pride, or in presumption. Some say, no evil thing that walks by night In fog...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.... | |
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