Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire — stories of Celaeno and the Harpies — may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition ; but they were there before. They are transcripts, types, — the archetypes are in us, and eternal. Essays of Elia - Page 74by Charles Lamb - 1835 - 412 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...themselves in the brain of superstition—but they were there before. They are transcripts, types—the archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should...recital of that, which we know in a waking sense to be fn !:->•, come to affect us at all ?—or but, as it was, my imaginations took that form.—It is... | |
| Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1870 - 374 pages
...doubt. Let no deluding dreams, nor dreadful sights, Make sudden, sad affrights, Ne let hobgoblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not ; But let still silence true night-watches keep, That sacred peace may in assurance reigne, And timely... | |
| Joseph Ritson, William Carew Hazlitt - Dwarfs - 1875 - 444 pages
...that alludes to his name of Puck — " Ne let the Pouke^ nor other evil spright, Ne let Hob-goblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not." 1 "In^our jchildhqp_d^l says Reginald Scot, " our motrTers' maids have so terrified us with an oughe... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1878 - 648 pages
...Pouke, nor other evill sprights, Ne let mischivous witches with theyr charmes, Ne let hob-goblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not : Let not the shriech-owle, nor the storke, be heard, 346 Nor the night-raven, that still deadly yels,... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...cell-damned murderer are tranquillity. Gorgone, and Hydras, and Chimœras dire — stories of Celœno on lamplighters formerly de'lighted in, with a cap...could have anticipated. With his pale and frighted ui with things that be not? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from euch objecte, considered in... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 pages
...cell-damned murderer are tranquillity. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire — stories of Celaeno and the Harpies — may reproduce themselves in the...at all? — or Names, whose sense we see not. Fray ils with things that be not? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered... | |
| sir Edmund William Gosse - 1881 - 308 pages
...the pouke, nor other evil sprights, Ne let mischievous witches with their charms, Ne let hobgoblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not ; Let not the screech owl, not the stork, be heard ; Nor the night-raven, that still deadly yells ;... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1882 - 464 pages
...cell-damned murderer are tranquillity. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire — stories of Celaeno and the Harpies — may reproduce themselves in the...sense to be false, come to affect us at all ? — or Nanus, whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not ? Is it that we naturally conceive terror... | |
| 1882 - 668 pages
...terrors in children. They can at most give them a direction. The stories of the Chimaeras and Gorgons may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition,...transcripts, types : the archetypes are in us, and eternal." May it not be that those archetypes are the prowling ferae of the tropical forests ? There is a story... | |
| Felix Leopold Oswald - Animals - 1882 - 278 pages
...terrors in children. They can at most give them a direction. The stories of the Chimaeras and Gorgons may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition,...transcripts, types : the archetypes are in us, and eternal." May it not be that those archetypes are the prowling ferce of the tropical forests ? There is a story... | |
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