 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1883 - 536 pages
...either death as a person or a skeleton. See King John, act iii. sc. 4, Twelfth NiyliA, act iii. sc. 2. " Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep." Romeo and Juliet, act i. scene 4. See also 2 Henry IV. act v. sc. 4, As You Like It, act iii. scs.... | |
 | 1927 - 924 pages
...She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs," etc., etc. SHAKESPEARE THE GAEL Maeve's ethics were in... | |
 | 442 pages
...She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...She is ihe fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger icks it with her tongue. I sha'n't be gone long. — You come too. (1. 5-8) Provide, Provide 88 waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs. The cover of the wings of grasshoppers, The traces of the... | |
 | Simon LeVay - 1994 - 196 pages
...She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs, The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; Her traces, of the... | |
 | Matthew C. Field - 1995 - 372 pages
...She is the Fairies' midwife; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman. Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep." — Act I, scene 4. pine and scrubby oak formed a singularly pleasing contrast to the lofty and majestic... | |
 | J. W. Wickwar - 1996 - 178 pages
...then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with yon. She . . . conies in shape no biyger than an agatestone. Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's...as they lie asleep: Her waggon spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers; Her traces, of the smallest spider's web;... | |
 | Anne Ludlum - 1998 - 84 pages
...She is the fairies' midwife and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs; The cover, the wings of grasshoppers; The traces, of the... | |
 | Susan J. Wolfson - 2001 - 324 pages
...atomies were born of Shakespeare and of Mercutio, a team now joined by Keats in team-work, dream-work: Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. (Romeo and Juliet 1.4.57-8) Dreams are real but do not present realities exactly; the same is true... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...Queen Mab : She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone . . . Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleepThen, for 20 more lines, he tells the kinds of dream Mab brings to various persons. teme: dark,... | |
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She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners... 
