Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft: Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq |
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... poor optimist , and would indeed have confounded most bons vivans , — " He was curious , " he said , " in his table , choice in his selection of cooks , had every day a dinner of three regular courses and a dessert ; and yet , somehow ...
... poor optimist , and would indeed have confounded most bons vivans , — " He was curious , " he said , " in his table , choice in his selection of cooks , had every day a dinner of three regular courses and a dessert ; and yet , somehow ...
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... poor man sighed , and shook his head negatively . " Well , " said the doctor , " we will try the experiment other- wise . " Accordingly , he rose from his chair by the bedside , and placing himself between the two half- drawn curtains ...
... poor man sighed , and shook his head negatively . " Well , " said the doctor , " we will try the experiment other- wise . " Accordingly , he rose from his chair by the bedside , and placing himself between the two half- drawn curtains ...
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... poor mad people were not brought to capital punishment for their blasphemous extravagances ; and imputed it as a fresh crime to the Duke of York , that , though he could not be often accused of toleration , he considered the discipline ...
... poor mad people were not brought to capital punishment for their blasphemous extravagances ; and imputed it as a fresh crime to the Duke of York , that , though he could not be often accused of toleration , he considered the discipline ...
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... poor madman as their superior : and , in general , that the magic , or powahing , of the North American Indians , was not of a nature to be much ap- prehended by the British colonists , since the natives themselves gave honour and ...
... poor madman as their superior : and , in general , that the magic , or powahing , of the North American Indians , was not of a nature to be much ap- prehended by the British colonists , since the natives themselves gave honour and ...
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... poor conception of a being who ought not , even in that lowest degrada- tion , to have seemed so unworthy an antagonist . Neither has Tasso been more happy , where he re- presents the divan of darkness , in the enchanted forest , as ...
... poor conception of a being who ought not , even in that lowest degrada- tion , to have seemed so unworthy an antagonist . Neither has Tasso been more happy , where he re- presents the divan of darkness , in the enchanted forest , as ...
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Page 62 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 62 - 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 62 - In consecrated earth And on the holy hearth 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...
Page 52 - 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 149 - 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.
Page 148 - 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 149 - Churne of Staffordshire Give laud and praises due, Who every meal can mend your cheer With tales both old and true : To William all give audience, And pray ye for his noddle, For all the fairies' evidence Were lost, if it were addle.
Page 117 - Lucken-hare, as the place where, at twelve o'clock at night, he should receive the price. He came, his money was paid in ancient coin, and he was invited by his customer to view his residence. The trader in horses followed his guide in the deepest astonishment through several long ranges of stalls, in each of which a horse stood motionless, while an armed warrior lay equally still at the charger's feet. ' All these men," said the wizard in a whisper, ' will awaken at the battle of Sheriffmuir.
Page 42 - The mountain's height, and all the ridges round, Yet not one trace of living wight discerns, Nor knows, o'erawed, and trembling as he stands, To what, or whom, he owes his idle fear, To ghost, to witch, to fairy, or to fiend; But wonders, and no end of wondering finds.
Page 149 - 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.