 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 ページ
...Rosicrucian doctrine of Spirits. ... The Rosicrucians are a people I must bring you acquainted with. ... According to these Gentlemen, the four Elements are...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes or Daemons of Earth delight in mischief ; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the Air, are the best-condition... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1901 - 120 ページ
...I know of them is in a French book call'd Le. Comte de Odbalis, which both in its title and size is so like a novel that many of the fair sex have read...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes, or djemons of Earth, delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1902 - 90 ページ
...I know of them is in a French Book called Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its Title and Size is so like a Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes, or Daemons of Earth, delight in Mischief; but the Sylphs, whose Habitation is in the Air, are the best-conditioned... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 ページ
...machines I determined to raise on a very new and odd foundation, the Rosicrucian doctrine of spirits According to these gentlemen the four elements are...air, are the best conditioned creatures imaginable The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones; and the character of Belinda, as it is now managed,... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 422 ページ
...I know of them is in a French book called Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its title and size is so like a novel that many of the fair sex have read...the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned creatures imaginable. For, they say, any mortal may enjoy the most intimate familiarities... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1909 - 132 ページ
...I know of them is in a French book call'd Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its title and size is so like a Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes or Djjnons of Earth delight in mischief : but the jaylphs, whose habitation is in the Air, are the best-condition'd... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 ページ
...I know of them is in a French book call'd Le Comte de Gajbalii, which both m its title and size is so like a Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read...the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the Air, are the best-condition' d Creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities... | |
 | Villars (abbé de, Nicolas-Pierre-Henri) - 1913 - 412 ページ
...I know of them is in a French book call'd Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its title and size is so like a Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read...the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the Air, are the best-condition'd Creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate. familiarities... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 ページ
...know of them is in a French book called IM Comte de Gabalis, which, both in its title and size, is Salamander». The Gnomes, or Diemons of earth, delight in mischief ; but the Sylphs, whose habitation... | |
 | Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 952 ページ
...know of them is in a French liook called La Comte de Uabalis, which, both in its title and size, is the flitter- winged verse must tell, For truth's...afterwards befell, T would humour many a heart to leave th ate inhabited by Spirits, which they call Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes, or Daemons... | |
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Gabalis," which, both in its title and size, is so like a novel that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. 
