| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 730 pages
...was yours ? Mer. That dreamers often lie. Rom. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is...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... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...age Have left me naked to mine enemies. MERCUTIO'S DESCRIPTION OF QUEEN MAB. Romeo and Juliet. OH, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; Her traces, of... | |
| William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - Andronicus, Titus (Legendary character) - 1861 - 548 pages
...dreamers often lie. Rom. In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. O, then, I see, Queen Mah hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ;...of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Over men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1859 - 518 pages
...was yours ? Mer. That dreamers often lie. Rom. In bed, asleep, while they do dream things true. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She...atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; Her traces of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 182 pages
...took by the throat the circumcised dog, And smote him — thus. [Stabs filmse/f. ROMEO AND JULTET. ON DREAMS. O, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1860 - 186 pages
...him—thus. [Slabs himself. UOMEO AND JULIET. ON DREAMS. O, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with yon. She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes In shape...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... | |
| Thomas Keightley - Fairy tales - 1860 - 584 pages
...renown in Faery. " I dreamed a dream to-night," says Eomeo. " O then," says Mercutio : — 0 then, I sec Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies'...an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies, Over men's noses as they lie asleep : • Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...magic of his pencil has diffused over every other part of the visionary world." — Drake. In shapo no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of...as they lie asleep : Her wagon-spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; The traces, of the smallest spider's web... | |
| Natural history - 1860 - 306 pages
...leaflets of such exquisite form and texture, as to suggest its special dedication to Queen Mab, who " Comes, In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the...atomies, Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep." 34 Taking advantage of a favourable position at the point for embracing at one view the many beauties... | |
| William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler - 1861 - 914 pages
...Iii bed, asleep,while they do dream things true. [with you. Mer. O, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been nd, Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away, Richer...unused to the melting mood, [eyes, Drop tears as fas IT Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon -spokes made of long spinners' legs ; The cover,... | |
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