...this latitude, on saturated bottom lands. From this surface arose during eight months of the year " As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen ; And all the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats." Within the past forty years...

...region as the Cambridgeshire Fens in his mind, when he placed in the mouth of Caliban the curse— As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed, With raven's feather from unwholesome ftn Drop on you both! But the prudent and energetic measures pursued in former times for the recovery...

...summer morning. Roses will no longer grow in our suburban garden, and the famous imprecation of Caliban, As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both, scarcely suggests a liquid To life less friendly or less cool to thirst than the dew which falls through...

...Roses will no longer grow in our suburban garden, and the famous imprecation of Caliban, As wicked clew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both, scarcely suggests a liquid To life less friendly or less cool to thirst than the dew which falls through...

...dwellings of the poor ? CHAPTER IV. " All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats " " As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed, With raven's feather from unwholesome fen." Shaltspeare. Malaria is a word in common use in the mouths of persons of all classes, the learned and...

...night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing." And in the Tempest, Act I., sc. ii, Caliban says— " As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen, Drop on you both !" To see one raven was accounted lucky, three the reverse. In MG Lewis's ballad of "Bill Jones," the...

...night Doth shake contagion from her sable wing." And ill the Tempest, Act I., sc. ii, Caliban says — "As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's feather from unwholesome fen, Drop on you both !" To see one raven was accounted lucky, three the reverse. In MG Lewis'sballad of " Bill Jones," the...

...her sable wings.' ' The sad presaging raven, that tolls e And Shakespeare : MARLOWE, Jew of Malta. ' As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's...from unwholesome fen Drop on you both!'— Tempest I. 2. Birds of the raven kind are most abundant in Palestine. Not only are there many species, but...

...silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings.' MARLOWE, Jew of Malta. And Shakespeare : ' As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed With raven's...from unwholesome fen Drop on you both!' — Tempest I. 2. Birds of the raven kind are most abundant in Palestine. Not only are there many species, but...

...beasts, vines, corn, cattle, plants," etc. 50. brush off the evil dew : comp. Tempest, i. 4 — ' ' As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed, With raven's feather, from unwholesome fen. ' 51. Another alliterative line, showing the same arrangement of adjectives as line 49 : see note,...