 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1850 - 472 էջ
...mischievous principle of all evil in the domestic economy of the ' world's people,' known in all its Protean shapes by the name of ' bad luck;' the modern successor...with all the spite, but without the genius of that frolick-loving little spirit, he who " Frights the maidens of the villagery, Skims milk, and sometimes... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 էջ
...quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite, Call'd Ptobin Good-fellow. Are you not he, That Christian courtesy ;• —let him look to his bond. Salar. Why, I am sure, if he forfe 8 , And bootless makes the breathless housewife churn ; And sometimes makes the drink to bear no barm... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 էջ
...mischievous principle of all evil in the domestic economy of the " world's people," known in all its Protean shapes by the name of " bad luck;" the modern successor...frolic-loving little spirit, he who Frights the maidens of the vllliurery, Skims milk, and sometimes labors in the qtlcm, And bootless makes the breathless honbtjwife... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 էջ
...people." known in all its Protean shape* by the i anie of " bad luck ;" the modern successor of H»bin Goodfellow, with all the spite, but without the genius of that frolic-loving little spirit, he who Friphls the maldeno of the THhgerr, Skims inlik, aiid Minn-times labors In the quern. And bootless... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 490 էջ
...quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite, Call'd Robin Good fellow : are you not he, That frights the maidens of the villagery ; Skims milk ; and sometimes labours in the quern,9 And bootless makes the breathless housewife churn ; And sometime makes the drink to bear no... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 618 էջ
...for fear, Creep into acorn-cups, and hide them there. Call'd Robin Goodfellow : are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery ; Skims milk, and sometimes labours in die quern, And bootless makes the breathless housewife churn ; And sometime makes the drink to bear... | |
 | John Milton, John Hunter - 1864 - 110 էջ
...quite, Or else yon are that shrewfl and knavish sprite Called Kobin Goodfellow. Are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery, Skims milk, and sometimes labours in the queru, And bootless makes the breathless housewife churn, And sometimes makes (he drink to bear no... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 էջ
...mischievous principle of all evil in the domestic economy of the " world's people," known in all its Protean shapes by the name of " bad luck ;" the modern successor...that frolic-loving little spirit, he who Frights the mnldene of the тШадот, Skims milk, and sometimes boon in the quern. And bootless makes the breathless... | |
 | Swynfen Jervis - 1868 - 386 էջ
...operate Most vilely ; for my vantage, excellent. Cymbeline, v. 5. QUERN. A handmill. Are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery ; Skims milk, and sometimes labours in the quern i Midsummer-Niyht's Dream, iL 1. QUEST. Suit ; courtship ; a searcher ; an inquirer ; a jury. What,... | |
 | Swynfen Jervis - 1868 - 390 էջ
...operate Most vilely ; for my vantage, excellent. Cymbeline, v. 5. QUEEN. A handmitt. Are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery; Skims milk, and sometimes labours in the quern t Midsummer-Night's Dream, ii 1. QUEST. Suit ; courtship ; a searcher ; an inquirer ; a jury. . What,... | |
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It might be curious to ascertain by what magical process these felicitous sisters have expelled from their thrifty housewifery that busy mischievous principle of all evil in the domestic economy of the 
