Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomJ. Murray, 1903 - English literature |
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... woman from a mountain - ash . Both trees are still believed to be endowed with mystic properties . On May Eve , withes made of the branches of the mountain- ash are tied round the horns of cows ; temporary hoops , formed in the same way ...
... woman from a mountain - ash . Both trees are still believed to be endowed with mystic properties . On May Eve , withes made of the branches of the mountain- ash are tied round the horns of cows ; temporary hoops , formed in the same way ...
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... woman doth say that at the age of thirteen or thereabouts she did with her bodily eyes see St. Michael and St. Gabriel , in bodily form . Since then she hath seen a multitude of angels , and St. Catherine and St. Margaret have shown ...
... woman doth say that at the age of thirteen or thereabouts she did with her bodily eyes see St. Michael and St. Gabriel , in bodily form . Since then she hath seen a multitude of angels , and St. Catherine and St. Margaret have shown ...
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... women desiring off- spring lay at their foot fruit and flowers , besides performing still more curious acts of propitiation . ( Worsfold , The French Stonehenge , ' pp . 13-15 . ) St. Boniface , with an ardour as keen as that of the ...
... women desiring off- spring lay at their foot fruit and flowers , besides performing still more curious acts of propitiation . ( Worsfold , The French Stonehenge , ' pp . 13-15 . ) St. Boniface , with an ardour as keen as that of the ...
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... women who of necessity bear the totem name of the ' churinga ' from which they came . The tradition of the natives is that when the spirit - child goes inside a woman , the ' churinga ' is dropped . When the child is born , the mother ...
... women who of necessity bear the totem name of the ' churinga ' from which they came . The tradition of the natives is that when the spirit - child goes inside a woman , the ' churinga ' is dropped . When the child is born , the mother ...
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... woman , and a child has , as a result , been born , then that living child is the reincarnation of that particular ... women who may chance to pass near , and it is firmly believed that visiting the stone will result in conception . If ...
... woman , and a child has , as a result , been born , then that living child is the reincarnation of that particular ... women who may chance to pass near , and it is firmly believed that visiting the stone will result in conception . If ...
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Page 175 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England; This nurse, this teeming womb of royal...
Page 199 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities : For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 187 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ; But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steeled The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 193 - And so I was; which plainly signified That I should snarl and bite and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another And not in me: I am myself alone.
Page 201 - tis true, I must be here confin'd by you, Or sent to Naples. Let me not, Since I have my dukedom got, And pardon'd the deceiver, dwell In this bare island by your spell; But release me from my bands With the help of your good hands.
Page 181 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 90 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Page 193 - Peace to his soul, if God's good pleasure be ! — Lord cardinal, if thou think'st on heaven's bliss, Hold up thy hand, make signal of thy hope. — He dies, and makes no sign : O God, forgive him ! War.
Page 190 - Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and learn'd and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.
Page 167 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.