...fire, Imitate the starry quire, Who, in their nighlly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny...morrice move ; And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip tlie pert faeries and the dapper elves, By dimpled brook awd fountain brim, Tho wood-nymphs, deck'd...

...reed,— How Nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom, extracting liquid sweets." " And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves." Contrasted, &c. " No ivory work my halls infold, Nor arched ceilings gleaming gold; MILTON. Idem. Nor...

...hideous. Alas I fear the 'mincing dryades' with high crowned hats, are all departed — and no more — " On the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert fairies, and the dapper elves." Albany appears at great advantage seated upon a side hill, presenting a mass of imposing buildings...

...the night, whilst those of regular dry climates are quite destitute of this wise provision of nature. BY dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs,...daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep. MILTON'S COMUS. in the spring and play-time of the year, That calls the unwonted villager abroad With...

...fire, Imitate the starry quire, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny...fairies and the dapper elves. By dimpled brook and fountain-brim, The wood-nymphs, deck'd with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What...

...fire, Imitate the starry quire, Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swifl round the months ory and renown, when God, Looking on the Earth, with approbation marks The just man, shrives, Trip the pert faeries and the dapper elves, By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs,...

...rushy brook, Or on the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind. ' * On the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert fairies,...By dimpled brook and fountain brim, The wood-nymphs deckt with daisies trim, Their merry wakes and pastimes keep, What has night to do with sleep ? ' 1...

...Now to the Moon in wavering morrice move ; And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert faeries turn, with lavish hand, Shower 120 Tlieir merry wakes and pastimes keep ; What hath night to do with sleep l Niglit hath better sweets...

...Imitate the starry quire, . . . Who In their nightly watchful spheres Lead In swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas with all their finny...move: And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pet fairies and the dapper elves." Was ever witchery more irresistible? It needed all Milton's own...

...roue, Along the fomy waves drilling hisyí/шу droue. Spenser. Faerie Qtteeite, book iii. can. 8. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move. Milton. Connu, L 115. It is palmipedous, or fin-f anted, like sw»ns and geese. Sir Thomas Urown. Vulgar...