Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the MarvellousE. Churton, 1835 - 362 pàgines |
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... figures in which imagination has embodied him . And as regards men themselves , it might be presumed that the devil could not by any means terrify them half so much , were they actually to meet and con- B verse with him face to face ...
... figures in which imagination has embodied him . And as regards men themselves , it might be presumed that the devil could not by any means terrify them half so much , were they actually to meet and con- B verse with him face to face ...
Pàgina 4
... figure . If we credit another story , he was be- gotten by " old nick " himself . To return , however , to the devil's agents being so infernally ugly , it need merely be remarked , that from time immemorial , he has invariably ...
... figure . If we credit another story , he was be- gotten by " old nick " himself . To return , however , to the devil's agents being so infernally ugly , it need merely be remarked , that from time immemorial , he has invariably ...
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... medecinæ in alma et antiquissimo univer- sitate professoris primarij , plurium eruditorium societatem socii , de magia liber . 8vo . Vienna . figures , engraved on a plate of brass , below ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOus . 23.
... medecinæ in alma et antiquissimo univer- sitate professoris primarij , plurium eruditorium societatem socii , de magia liber . 8vo . Vienna . figures , engraved on a plate of brass , below ELUCIDATIONS OF THE MARVELLOus . 23.
Pàgina 24
... figures to be searched for , till he had released the virgin , for fear he should seem to have intercourse with incantations in performing the cure or to believe that a devil could even speak truth . He observed only that demons are ...
... figures to be searched for , till he had released the virgin , for fear he should seem to have intercourse with incantations in performing the cure or to believe that a devil could even speak truth . He observed only that demons are ...
Pàgina 28
... figure , than could be supposed to make their way through these parts , without much greater demolition and delaceration of the passages ; in all these cases , the disease is unques- tionably magical . " The author proceeds to enquire ...
... figure , than could be supposed to make their way through these parts , without much greater demolition and delaceration of the passages ; in all these cases , the disease is unques- tionably magical . " The author proceeds to enquire ...
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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...