 | George Gregory Smith - 1898 - 316 halaman
...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... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - 1905 - 366 halaman
...churchyards 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 Gay : — "Those tales of vulgar spirites, Which frighten'd boys relate on winter nights, How... | |
 | William Temple - 1909 - 102 halaman
...Language has been fetcht as far as Ysland it self. How much of this Kind and of this Credulity remained 10 even to our own Age may be observed by any Man that Reflects, so far as Thirty or Forty Years, how often Avouched, and how generally Credited, were the Stories of Fairies,... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1909 - 392 halaman
...Language has been fetcht as far as Fs/awrfitself. How much of this Kind and of this Credulity remained 10 even to our own Age may be observed by any Man that Reflects, so far as Thirty or Forty Years, how often Avouched, and how generally Credited, were the Stories of Fairies,... | |
 | William Temple - 1909 - 108 halaman
...Language has been fetcht as far as Ysland it self. How much of this Kind and of this Credulity remained 10 even to our own Age may be observed by any Man that Reflects, so far as Thirty or Forty Years, how often Avouched, and how generally Credited, were the Stories of Fairies,... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1909 - 678 halaman
...Language has been fetcht as far as Ysland it self. How much of this Kind and of this Credulity remained 10 even to our own Age may be observed by any Man that Reflects, so far as Thirty or Forty Years, how often Avouched, and how generally Credited, were the Stories of Fairies,... | |
 | William Temple - 1909 - 108 halaman
...Language has been fetcht as far as Ysland it self. How much of this Kind and of this Credulity remained 10 even to our own Age may be observed by any Man that Reflects, so far as Thirty or Forty Years, how often Avouched, and how generally Credited, were the Stories of Fairies,... | |
 | Henry Thew Stephenson - 1910 - 564 halaman
...churchyards were all haunted; every large common circles of fairies belonging to it; and there was scarce a shepherd to be met with who had not seen a spirit." Two other quotations arc added from more recent writers that will help to fix in mind the generality... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 halaman
...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... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1911 - 190 halaman
...all haunted, 3 every " large common had a circle of fairies belonging to it, 4 " 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. 
