Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the MarvellousE. Churton, 1835 - 362 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... answering these difficult ques- tions , it may be resolved into a good argument , as an excellent allegory to represent the struggle in the mind of man between good and evil inclinations . But to take them as they actually are , and ...
... answering these difficult ques- tions , it may be resolved into a good argument , as an excellent allegory to represent the struggle in the mind of man between good and evil inclinations . But to take them as they actually are , and ...
Pàgina 45
... answers of the dead were not so easily understood ; the priests , therefore , and the magicians made it their business to ... answer the dreams which most affected them ; or opened a certain book appointed for that purpose , and gave the ...
... answers of the dead were not so easily understood ; the priests , therefore , and the magicians made it their business to ... answer the dreams which most affected them ; or opened a certain book appointed for that purpose , and gave the ...
Pàgina 46
... answer of the oracle . The ancients also made use of dice , drawing tickets , etc. , in casting or deciding results . In the Old Testament we meet with many standing and perpetual laws , and a number of particular commands , prescribing ...
... answer of the oracle . The ancients also made use of dice , drawing tickets , etc. , in casting or deciding results . In the Old Testament we meet with many standing and perpetual laws , and a number of particular commands , prescribing ...
Pàgina 55
... answered , that the death of Philip was revenged , but that the father of Alexander was immortal . This oracle gave occasion to Lucan to put great sentiments in the mouth of Cato . After the battle of Pharsalia , when Cesar began to be ...
... answered , that the death of Philip was revenged , but that the father of Alexander was immortal . This oracle gave occasion to Lucan to put great sentiments in the mouth of Cato . After the battle of Pharsalia , when Cesar began to be ...
Pàgina 56
... answer worthy of an oracle : On what account , Labrenus , would you have me consult Jupiter ? Shall I ask him whether it be better to lose life than liberty ? Whether life be a real good ? We have within us , Labrenus , an oracle that ...
... answer worthy of an oracle : On what account , Labrenus , would you have me consult Jupiter ? Shall I ask him whether it be better to lose life than liberty ? Whether life be a real good ? We have within us , Labrenus , an oracle that ...
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Pàgina 107 - ... we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars : as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ; knaves, thieves and treachers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, liars and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence ; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on...
Pàgina 159 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut , Made by the joiner squirrel , or old grub , Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love: On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight: O'er lawyers' fingers , who straight dream on fees : O'er ladies...
Pàgina 107 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behaviour — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars...
Pàgina 162 - Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell. When nature rests Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Pàgina 160 - Tickling a parson's nose as a' lies asleep: Then dreams he of another benefice! Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two, And sleeps again.
Pàgina 170 - Or, one dream pass'd, we slide into a new ; So close they follow, such wild order keep, We think ourselves awake, and are asleep ; So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
Pàgina 161 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Pàgina 145 - But with more lucky hit than those That use to make the stars depose, Like Knights o
Pàgina 307 - Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years...
Pàgina 159 - She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...