 | 1803 - 376 trang
...were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit. Among all the poets of this kind our English are much. the best, by what I have yet seen; whether it... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 trang
...were all haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit. Among all the poets of this kind, our English are much the best, by what I have yet seen, whether it... | |
 | 1804 - 412 trang
...haunted, every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, and there was p 2 scarce scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit. Among all the poets of this kind our English are much the best, by what I have yet seen i whether it... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 556 trang
...were injurious however, to consider New England as peculiar in this culpable credulity, with its / " a shepherd to be met with, who had not seen a spirit." ADDISON, SpecUCOT, »i. No. 419. Sir William Temple, in his Essay on Poetry, remarks : " Haw much of this credulity... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 trang
...were all haunted ; every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it; and there •was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit." It is somewhat remarkable, and a strong proof of an inherent love in human nature for the vast, the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 trang
...were all haunted ; every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it ; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit." It is somewhat remarkable, and a strong proof of an inherent love in human nature for the vast, the... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1807 - 572 trang
...were all haunted, every large corhmrn had a circle of fairies belonging to it; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit! The mind is overwhelmed in astonishment at the fact, that Sir Matthew Hale, the' most'pious, learned,... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 508 trang
...were all haunted — every Common had a Circle of Fairies belonging to it — and there was scarce a Shepherd to be met with who had not seen a Spirit. Hence Those Tales of vulgar Sprites, Which frighted Boys relate on Winter Nights, How cleanly Milk... | |
 | John Brand - 1810 - 510 trang
...were all haunted — every Common had a Circle of Fairies belonging to it — and there was scarce a Shepherd to be met with who had not seen a Spirit. Hence Those Tales of vulgar Sprites, Which frighted Boys relate on Winter Nights, How cleanly Milk... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 456 trang
...all haunted ; every large " common had a circle of fairies belonging to . " it ; and there was scarce a shepherd to be " met with, who had not seen a spirit." We are upon enchanted ground, my friend ; and you are to think yourself well used, that I detain you... | |
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There was not a village in England that had not a ghost in it; the churchyards were all haunted; every large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit. 
