 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 582 pages
...true. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate- stone ", On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawa with a team of little atomies >Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : $ao Her waggon spokes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 486 pages
...true. Mer. O, then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife;5 and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate- stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies6 Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep: Her waggon-spokes made... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...Fr. achates, Lat.] A precious stone of the lowest class, often clouded with beautiful variegations. In shape no bigger than an agate stone, On the forefinger of an alderman. Sbaljfrarc. Agatci are only varieties of the flint Kind ; they have a grey horny ground, clouded, lineated,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Oratory - 1810 - 414 pages
...images attending it, that I ever met with, is in Shakspeare's description of queen Mab. 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...She recoils from every thing but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite. She leaves it to Fancy to describe Queen Mab as coming, "In shape no bigger...not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as PomVOL. i. c pey's Pillar ; much less that he was twelve cubits, or twelve hundred cubits high ; or... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...She recoils from every thing but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite. She leaves it to Fancy to describe Queen Mab as coming, " In shape no bigger...not tell you that her gigantic Angel was as tall as PomVOL. i. c pey's Pillar; much less that he was twelve cubits, or twelve hundred cubits high; or that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 378 pages
...She recoils from every thing but the plastic, the pliant, and the indefinite. She leaves it to Fancy to describe Queen Mab as coming, " In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an Alderman." Having to speak of stature, she does not tell you that... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...inimitable description of Queen Mab the Queen of Fairies : — 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...diminutive person, in allusion to the figures cut in agate for rings, &c. Queen Mab is described, ' In shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an alderman.' See note on K. Henry IV. Part ii. If speaking, why a vane blown with all winds : If silent, why a block... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 438 pages
...diminutive person, in allusion to the figures cut in agate for rings, &c. Queen Mab is described, ' In shape no bigger than an agate stone on the forefinger of an alderman.' See note on K. Henry IV. Part II. If speaking, why a vane blown with all winds : If silent, why a block... | |
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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... 
