Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine: I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.
Thy feast no orgy shows; Thy calm eyes never close, Thou soberest sprite to which the sun gives birth.
The following story of a fairy in the capacity of the benevolent sprite used to be told in one of the southern counties of England.
Even as the serpent marred the Eden of which the sacred legends of the Semites tell, so in the folk-thought does some evil sprite or phantom ever and anon intrude itself in the Paradise of childhood and seek its ruin.
In his interesting chapters on Fairy Births and Human Midwives, Mr. Hartland informs us that young girls have sometimes been called upon to go to fairy-land and usher into the world of elves some little sprite about to be born.
And the weltering surge and the spacious lands were all cleansed when the alien sprite gave up his life and this fleeting existence.
The blood was too hot, and so poisonous the alien sprite who died in that conflict.
After these words came the angry dragon, the terrible and hostile sprite yet once again, and decked in his various hues of whelmings of fire, against his enemies, the men that he hated.
And miserable should be his passing on the day of this life, and the hostile sprite should journey far into the power of devils.
They knew not his father, whether any secret sprite was formerly born of him.
Then it was that the powerful sprite who abode in darkness, scarce could brook for a while that daily he heard loud joy in the hall.
The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax.
The tricksy sprite and the candles (brought by Betty) need no explanatory words of mine.
My quaint Ariel," said Prospero to the little sprite when he made him free, "I shall miss you; yet you shall have your freedom.
Beside her moved a slender sprite of a girl, whose hair gleamed like spun gold above a dress of apple-green.
He says his orders are imperative--to allow no one to intrude on that space," and madam looked as though she would rather look anywhere than at the animated sprite above her.
The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for be owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Sycorax.
So hellish did the misery seem to him, that he was relieved by the prospect of lying a whole day long in loneliness with the sunshine of the woods, occasionally conjuring up the antidote face of the wood-sprite before he was to undergo it.
Pleasure in the scenery had gone, and the wood-sprite was a flitted vapour; he longed to be below there, observing Abrane and Potts and the philosopher confounded, and the legible placidity of Countess Livia.
Strangers," called Rabba, and as soon as he heard the word, the sprite darted swiftly off along the top of the wall.
They asked Rabba to try and kill this sprite who said that only a stranger to the land could do him harm, and so Rabba and his faithful Ali, mounted on horses, set forth on their adventures.
The lively little sprite Ariel had nothing mischievous in his nature, except that he took rather too much pleasure in tormenting an ugly monster called Caliban, for he owed him a grudge because he was the son of his old enemy Scyorax.
One little sprite pauses in its hunt for insects to raise its pretty head and trill a short and wiry song.
Many a bold youth glanced with eye of fear at the acknowledged haunt of the fay in the forest glade, and many a maiden held the household sprite in religious awe, as she swept her kitchen at early dawn.
Not a sprite is left to skim the cream from the bowl,--not a silver piece is now ever lent to the favoured maiden, without the rate of interest, and found by her at early dawn.
With which words Nettie went off like a little sprite to put away Freddy's coat, newly completed, along with the other articles of his wardrobe, at which she had been working all day.
She seemed only a featherweight when the bewildered doctor helped her to alight--an undoubted spriteand creature of romance.
He saw the sprite place herself between the husband and wife, a vain little Quixote, balancing these extremes of helplessness and ruin.
Yes, but a sprite who had decided otherwise was there.
I imagined that the sprite was going to triumph, and I wept those tears that were like a brook that runs on and on without ceasing.
Indeed, Prudence, I have seen no ghost, and goodman Wizard has failed me utterly; norsprite nor phantom has been near me.
Tis a rare beginning: the desert island, and the sprite that can work wonders, and the poor banished duke and his daughter.
She skipped about like the very sprite of mischief, exclaiming to herself: "Oh, shan't we have fun presently!
Five years had made very little alteration here, excepting in the case of Jacquelina, who had grown up to be the most enchanting sprite that ever bewitched the hearts, or turned the heads of men.
The wily sprite demands in guerdon for the cure the right hand of the mother, the sister's long hair, with the ribbons that bind it, the pearl necklace of the wife.
When a beautiful and healthy child sickens and dies, the Irish peasant infers that the genuine baby has been stolen by fairies, and this miserable sprite left in its place.
