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... court - dress , with bag and sword , tamboured waistcoat , and chapeau- bras , glided beside me like the ghost of Beau Nash ; and whether in my own house or in another , as- cended the stairs before me , as if to announce me in the ...
... court - dress , with bag and sword , tamboured waistcoat , and chapeau- bras , glided beside me like the ghost of Beau Nash ; and whether in my own house or in another , as- cended the stairs before me , as if to announce me in the ...
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... Court of Berlin . " It is necessary to premise that M. Gleditsch , to whom the circumstance happened , was a botanist of eminence , holding the professorship of natural philosophy at Berlin , and respected as a man of an habitually ...
... Court of Berlin . " It is necessary to premise that M. Gleditsch , to whom the circumstance happened , was a botanist of eminence , holding the professorship of natural philosophy at Berlin , and respected as a man of an habitually ...
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... court of Verona . * Such possession of supernatural wisdom is still imputed , by the natives of the Orkney and Zetland islands , to the people called Drows , being a corrup- tion of Duergar or dwarfs , and who may , in most other ...
... court of Verona . * Such possession of supernatural wisdom is still imputed , by the natives of the Orkney and Zetland islands , to the people called Drows , being a corrup- tion of Duergar or dwarfs , and who may , in most other ...
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... - though their gifts were sometimes valuable , they were usually wantonly given , and unexpectedly resumed . The employment , the benefits , the amusements of the Fairy court , resembled the aerial people them- selves 112 LETTERS ON.
... - though their gifts were sometimes valuable , they were usually wantonly given , and unexpectedly resumed . The employment , the benefits , the amusements of the Fairy court , resembled the aerial people them- selves 112 LETTERS ON.
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... court together . Their pageants and court entertainments comprehended all that the imagination could conceive of what was , by that age , accounted gallant and splendid . At their processions , they paraded more beautiful steeds than ...
... court together . Their pageants and court entertainments comprehended all that the imagination could conceive of what was , by that age , accounted gallant and splendid . At their processions , they paraded more beautiful steeds than ...
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Page 146 - Farewell, rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they ; And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late for cleanliness Finds sixpence in her shoe ? " Lament, lament, old abbeys, The fairies' lost command ; They did but change priests...
Page 204 - How have I sat, when piped the pensive wind, To hear his harp by British Fairfax strung ! Prevailing poet ! whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung...
Page 49 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 42 - The doubling storm roars thro' the woods, The lightnings flash from pole to pole, Near and more near the thunders roll, When, glimmering thro' the groaning trees, Kirk-Alloway seem'd in a bleeze, Thro' ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil ; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
Page 60 - The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar power foregoes his wonted seat.
Page 147 - Their dances were Procession. But now, alas, they all are dead ; Or gone beyond the seas ; Or farther for Religion fled ; Or else they take their ease.
Page 35 - Their sitting-room opened into an entrance-hall rather fantastically fitted up with articles of armor, skins of wild animals, and the like. It was when laying down his book, and passing into this hall, through which the moon was beginning to shine, that the individual of whom I speak saw right before him, and in a standing posture, the exact representation of his departed friend, whose recollection had been so strongly Drought to his imagination.
Page 60 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 326 - I was only nineteen or twenty years old, when I happened to pass a night in the magnificent old baronial castle of Glammis, the hereditary seat of the Earls of Strathmore. The hoary pile contains much in its appearance, and in the traditions connected with it, impressive to the imagination. It was the scene of the murder of a Scottish king of great antiquity ; not, indeed, the gracious Duncan, with whom the name naturally associates itself, but Malcolm II. It contains also a curious monument of the...
Page 147 - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.