Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares. revised by sir H. Ellis, 第 3 巻1842 |
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... friends worthy a Roman matron , being asked why she did not make a better defence on her trial , answered , My persecutors have de- stroyed my honor , and my life is not now worth the pains of defending . ' The last instance of national ...
... friends worthy a Roman matron , being asked why she did not make a better defence on her trial , answered , My persecutors have de- stroyed my honor , and my life is not now worth the pains of defending . ' The last instance of national ...
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... friends . On this account they are frequently called White Witches . " ( a ) Ady , in his " Candle in the Dark , " p . 29 , speaking of common jugglers , that go up and down to play their tricks in fayrs and mar- kets , says : " I will ...
... friends . On this account they are frequently called White Witches . " ( a ) Ady , in his " Candle in the Dark , " p . 29 , speaking of common jugglers , that go up and down to play their tricks in fayrs and mar- kets , says : " I will ...
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... friend , that he who first died should appear to the survivor . " Glanvil tells us of the Ghost of a person who had lived but a disorderly kind of life , for which it was condemned to wander up and down the earth , in the company of ...
... friend , that he who first died should appear to the survivor . " Glanvil tells us of the Ghost of a person who had lived but a disorderly kind of life , for which it was condemned to wander up and down the earth , in the company of ...
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... friends as coming towards them , was , with his companions , violently thrown down , and sorely bruised . We further learn , by Relation 16th , that the hand of a Ghost is ' as cold as a clod . ' " The usual time at which ghosts make ...
... friends as coming towards them , was , with his companions , violently thrown down , and sorely bruised . We further learn , by Relation 16th , that the hand of a Ghost is ' as cold as a clod . ' " The usual time at which ghosts make ...
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... friends and means , is treated with humanity , in spite of the grisly bristles which adorn her mouth : and , in the minds of the young , cultivated by education , a steady pursuit of the arts of life has banished the chimeras of fancy ...
... friends and means , is treated with humanity , in spite of the grisly bristles which adorn her mouth : and , in the minds of the young , cultivated by education , a steady pursuit of the arts of life has banished the chimeras of fancy ...
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91 ページ - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
213 ページ - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
38 ページ - I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
155 ページ - ... ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did not grow together. We have several persons now living in the village, who, in their childhood, were supposed to be healed by this superstitious ceremony, derived down perhaps from our Saxon ancestors, who practised it before their conversion to Christianity.
216 ページ - This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, Still walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And, leading us, makes us to stray, Long winters nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us.
149 ページ - Himself best knows . but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and, 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
39 ページ - Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence, with a stilly sound. In such a place as this, at such an hour, If ancestry can be in aught believed, Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the world unknown.
107 ページ - Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and ravens croak upon trees ?§ The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, Our Synod calls humiliations, The round-faced prodigy t' avert From doing town or country hurt.
170 ページ - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
76 ページ - mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which " things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they