 | Daniel Defoe - 1908 - 382 pages
...makes some mention of this — OF GREAT BRITAIN " And on sweet St Agnes' night Please you with the promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers. Which an empty dream discovers." Now what can be more infinitely profane than to use the prayer of our Lord instituted in such a way... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 pages
...following lines from Ben Jonson are quoted : " And on sweet St. Agnes' night, Please you with promis'd sight — Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." De Selincourt (Poems of Keats, 1905) thinks the "subject was more probably suggested to Keats by a... | |
 | 1915 - 488 pages
...can start our Franklins' daughters, In their sleep, with shrieks and laughters: And on sweet Saint Anna's night Feed them with a promised sight, Some...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Ben Jonson [1573?-1637] THE PALACE OF THE FAIRIES From "Nymphidia" Tms palace standeth in the air,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1913 - 206 pages
...all this mocking stir us ? Sat. She can start our Franklin's daughters In their sleep, with shrieks and laughters ; And on sweet St. Anna's night, Feed...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. i Fal. Satyr, vengeance near you hovers. Sat. And in hope that you would come here Yester-eve, the... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...can start our Franklins' daughters, In their sleep, with shrieks and laughters: And on sweet Saint Anna's night Feed them with a promised sight, Some...husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Ben Jonson [1573^1637! THE ELF AND THE DORMOUSE UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain,... | |
 | Amy Lowell - 1925 - 708 pages
...probably familiar to Keats. They are: "And on sweet St. Anna's1 night Please you with the promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." To see one's love in a dream, and know that however many ups and downs the waking course of true love... | |
 | Norman Ault - 1928 - 566 pages
...start our franklin's daughters In their sleep with shrieks and laughters, And on sweet Saint Anne's night Feed them with a promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. Jonson. A Particular Entertainment of the Queen and Prince their Highnen to Althrope, 1603.* On my... | |
 | Boston Symphony Orchestra - 1916 - 1272 pages
...Agnes to discover their future husbands : And on sweet St. Agnes' night , Please you with the promis'd sight. Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. John Aubrey gave this direction: "Upon St. Agnes's Night you take a row of pins, and pull out every... | |
 | John Nichols - 1828 - 690 pages
...our Franklin's daughters, In her sleep, with shrieks and laughters ; And on sweet St. Anna's night3, Feed them with a promised sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers. 1 Fai. Satyr, vengeance near you hovers. 1 This Fairy Mythology, which has been copied by Milton, and... | |
 | 442 pages
...their ' sleep, with shrieks and laughters, And on sweet St Anne's night, Feed them with a promis'd sight, Some of husbands, some of lovers, Which an empty dream discovers." Fairies, they tell you, have frequently been heard and seen, nay, that there are some living who were... | |
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