Headlong Hall: And, Nightmare AbbeyWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 172 páginas |
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... seem absurd to us of this day , yet if it was calculated to impress the minds of those for whom it was invented , and to whom it was told , its merit was great , and therefore deserving of due praise . A giant or a magician was as ...
... seem absurd to us of this day , yet if it was calculated to impress the minds of those for whom it was invented , and to whom it was told , its merit was great , and therefore deserving of due praise . A giant or a magician was as ...
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... seems not to have been aware of its existence in the Gesta Romanorum , content to translate it from the later ver- sion of Masenius , a German Jesuit , who lived at Cologne in 1657. " " Few subjects , " said Herbert , " seem more ...
... seems not to have been aware of its existence in the Gesta Romanorum , content to translate it from the later ver- sion of Masenius , a German Jesuit , who lived at Cologne in 1657. " " Few subjects , " said Herbert , " seem more ...
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... seem to partake of little levity to prefigure our Saviour's birth in that of Bacchus ; his sufferings and death in that of Acteon , or his resurrection in the legend of Hercules , as related by Lycophron ; as late as the thirteenth ...
... seem to partake of little levity to prefigure our Saviour's birth in that of Bacchus ; his sufferings and death in that of Acteon , or his resurrection in the legend of Hercules , as related by Lycophron ; as late as the thirteenth ...
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... seems another objection . The Romans adopted the le- gends of Greece , and naturalized them . With the mythology came the religious rites appendant to it . How did it happen that the Scalds adopted the one without falling into the other ...
... seems another objection . The Romans adopted the le- gends of Greece , and naturalized them . With the mythology came the religious rites appendant to it . How did it happen that the Scalds adopted the one without falling into the other ...
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... seems deficient . " " It is but a portion of my machinery . Much more was due to the clouds of monks , who , during the third and fourth centuries , wandered over the face of the habitable world . " " When Gibbon admits that the ...
... seems deficient . " " It is but a portion of my machinery . Much more was due to the clouds of monks , who , during the third and fourth centuries , wandered over the face of the habitable world . " " When Gibbon admits that the ...
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Página 104 - Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea ! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Página 47 - Though loud at first the pilgrim's passion grew, Sudden he gaz'd, and wist not what to do; Surprise in secret chains his words suspends, And in a calm his settling temper ends. But silence here the beauteous angel broke, The voice of music ravish'd as he spoke.
Página 98 - He now became troubled with the passion for reforming the world* He built many castles in the air, and peopled them with secret tribunals, and bands of illuminati, who were always the imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species.
Página 47 - Approach'd the careless guide, and thrust him in : Plunging he falls, and rising lifts his head ; Then flashing turns, and sinks among the dead ! Wild, sparkling rage inflames the Father's eyes, ^He bursts the bands of fear, and madly cries, 'Detested wretch...
Página 79 - He shakes his bag, he shows all fair : His fingers spread, and nothing there ; Then bids it rain with showers of gold ; And now his ivory eggs are told ; But when from thence the hen he draws, Amaz'd spectators hum applause.
Página 151 - Tis Jove's decree, In a bowl Care may not be ; In a bowl Care may not be. Fear ye not the waves that roll ? No : in charmed bowl we swim. What the charm that floats the bowl ? Water may not pass the brim. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine. And our ballast is old wine ; And your ballast is old wine.
Página 80 - By clean conveyance disappear; And now two bloody swords are there. A purse she to a thief exposed; At once his ready fingers closed. He opes his fist, the treasure's fled; He sees a halter in its stead.
Página 24 - Watch ye for ye know not the day nor the hour when the Son of Man cometh an impressive solemn discourse — [March] 14 Tuesday Evening [1848] Quite unwell last evening but about.
Página 90 - Oh, it's your only fine humour, sir; your true melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit, sir. I am melancholy myself, divers times, sir, and then do I no more but take pen and paper, presently, and overflow you half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting.
Página 147 - Cypress. Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife ; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country. I have written an ode to tell the people as much, and they may take it as they list.