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The pages of Keightley's work contain instances of hill-inhabiting fairies in Scandinavia, Denmark, the Isle of Rugen, Iceland, Germany, and Switzerland. It is not only in Europe, however, that this form of habitation is to be met with; we find it also in America.
If I were a man, I wouldn't stay here a day longer than I had to." Peter was silent as they went in at the gate and opened the door, for on this festive occasion they were provided with a latchkey. He turned up the light in the hall to behold a transformation quite as wonderful as any contained in the "Arabian Nights" or Keightley's "Fairy Mythology."
He is also not always careful to give chapter and verse for his statements. VII. Thomas Keightley's papers On the Life and Writings of Henry Fielding in Fraser's Magazine for January and February 1858. These, prompted by Mr. Lawrence's book, are most valuable, if only for the author's frank distrust of his predecessors. They are the work of an enthusiast, and a very conscientious examiner.
Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," ii. 81-2. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," iii. 266. See "The Phytologist," 1862, p. 236-8. "Folk-lore of Shakespeare," p. 15. See Friend's "Flower Lore," i. 34. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," iii. 266. Friend's "Flower Lore," i. 27. See Keightley's "Fairy Mythology," p. 231. Grimm's "Teut. Myth.," 1883, ii. 451; "Asiatic Researches," i. 345.
The delight with which Pope, when a schoolboy, read Ogilvy's 'Homer' was, most probably, the origin of the English 'Iliad; as the 'Percy Reliques' fired the juvenile mind of Scott, and stimulated him to enter upon the collection and composition of his 'Border Ballads. Keightley's first reading of 'Paradise Lost, when a boy, led to his afterwards undertaking his Life of the poet.
If I were a man, I wouldn't stay here a day longer than I had to." Peter was silent as they went in at the gate and opened the door, for on this festive occasion they were provided with a latchkey. He turned up the light in the hall to behold a transformation quite as wonderful as any contained in the "Arabian Nights" or Keightley's "Fairy Mythology."
Keightley's Fairy Mythology says he is only our old friend Robin Good-fellow, Milton's lubber fiend, the Hob Goblin. You know, Rupert, and Robert, and Hob, are all the same name, Rudbryht, bright in speech. 'And a hobbish fellow means a gentleman as clumsy as the lubber fiend, said Elizabeth. 'No doubt he wore hob-nails in his shoes, said Rupert.
See Keightley's "Fairy Mythology," p. 173. Thorpe's "Northern Mythology," i. 251-3. Plants have always been largely used for testing the fidelity of lovers, and at the present day are still extensively employed for this purpose by the rustic maiden.
Keightley's personal inquiries, circa 1858, elicited the information that the family, now extinct, was highly respectable, but not of New Sarum's best society.
Keightley's other points namely, that the "tolerably respectable farm-house," in which he is supposed to have lived, was scarcely adapted to "splendid entertainments," or "a large retinue of servants;" and that, to be in strict accordance with the family arms, the liveries should have been not "yellow," but white and blue must be taken for what they are worth.
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