"Robin goodfellow" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he was sometimes called, Robin Goodfellow) was a shrewd and knavish sprite, that used to play comical pranks in the neighboring villages; sometimes getting into the dairies and skimming the milk, sometimes plunging his light and airy form into the butter-churn, and while ...
— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb
... we not think him happy in having a lovely wife, happy in her decorating his paper-baskets so charmingly? The colors are red and black, like Robin Goodfellow. If ever I marry, I only hope that twelve years after, my wife's embroidered baskets may still ...
— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac
... most charming story, from an author of reputation in this department, both in England and America. The machinery of Fairy Land is employed with great ingenuity; the style is beautiful, imaginative, yet simple. The frolics of Robin Goodfellow are rendered with the ...
— Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions • George S. Boutwell
... its radical sense shrew-ed, malicious, like a shrew. Comp. M. N. D. ii. 1, "That shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow." Chaucer has the verb shrew to curse; the ...
— Milton's Comus • John Milton
... to commend them to the fancy. They are among the last traces, in these matter-of-fact days, of the motley population of former times; and are whimsically associated in my mind with fairies and witches, Robin Goodfellow, Robin Hood, and the other ...
— Bracebridge Hall • Washington Irving |
