"Fairy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... magic doorways Down into Fairy-land, Yet nobody, but only me, Has time to understand That if we knew the magic, If we could work it too, We could creep down to Fairy-town And ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. • Various
... crude sentimentalization of here and now that one finds in the popular novels of today. Fenimore Cooper filled his romances, not with the people about him, but with the Indians beyond the sky-line, and made them half-fabulous to boot. Irving told fairy tales about the forgotten Knickerbockers; Hawthorne turned backward to the Puritans of Plymouth Rock; Longfellow to the Acadians and the prehistoric Indians; Emerson took flight from earth altogether; even ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken
... verse adorn again Fierce War, and faithful Love, And Truth severe, by fairy Fiction drest. In buskin'd measures move Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain, With Horror, tyrant of the throbbing breast. A voice, as of the cherub-choir, Gales from blooming Eden bear; And distant warblings lessen on my ear, That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, thinks thou yon ...
— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education
... capped hills o'er rocks and rills, That proudly seem to stand, Now fade like gleams in passing dreams Of lovely fairy land. ...
— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin
... softly flowing gown, The love-light flashing from her eyes— With cheeks aglow like roses blown Beneath the ardent summer skies— No artist hand could fitly trace The wondrous charm that did beset her, When tripping with a fairy's grace O'er the waxen ...
— The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems • George W. Doneghy
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