...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that, among...

...augmentation; when it is lessened, we call it diminution. 0 Behold a wonder: they, but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless. Par. Lost, i. 777. Here we behold diminution. Parva mctu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras,...

...augmentation; when it is lessened, we call it diminution. 0 Behold a wonder: they, but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless. Here we behold diminution. Parva mctu primo ; mox scsc nttollit in auras, Ingrediturque...

...augmentation; when it is lessened, we call it diminution. 0 Behold a wonder: they, but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless. Par. Lost, i. 777. Here we behold diminution. Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras,...

...and were straiten'd ; till, the signal giv'n, Behold a wonder ! They hut now who seem'd In higness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room 780 Throng numherless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight...

...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! they but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs. A few examples will illustrate the mode in which this force operates. It is well known that, among...

...her sleeping Endymion. Hence, too, those delicate beings, the creation of modern romantic fiction, Whose midnight revels by a forest-side Or fountain,...overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course, who throw their peculiar charm over so much of early English literature and...

...crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder! They, but now who secni'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount: or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels,...

...beg to have A quiet passage to a welcome grave.' Fairy elves Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams...sees, while, overhead, the moon Sits arbitress.'' I know a bank, whereon the wild thyme blows, Where oxslip and the nodding violet grows, O'ercanopied...

...crowd Swarni'd and were straiten'd; till, the signal given, Behold a wonder ! They, but now w ho seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless, like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels,...