Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the MarvellousE. Churton, 1835 - 362 páginas |
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... lived . She became perfectly furious , she tore her hair , gnashed her teeth , and repeated incessantly the name of the youth , who had been drawn from her presence by the violence of her despairing passion . In this situation she was ...
... lived . She became perfectly furious , she tore her hair , gnashed her teeth , and repeated incessantly the name of the youth , who had been drawn from her presence by the violence of her despairing passion . In this situation she was ...
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... lived there . His curiosity also led him in , and Duncan Campbell likewise told him that he must beware of a white horse . It was somewhat extraordinary that two fortune - tellers , one at Venice and the other in London , with- out any ...
... lived there . His curiosity also led him in , and Duncan Campbell likewise told him that he must beware of a white horse . It was somewhat extraordinary that two fortune - tellers , one at Venice and the other in London , with- out any ...
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... lived about the commencement of the fifth century , and who has a treatise express upon it , called , " The divine art of making gold and silver , " in manuscript , and is , as formerly , in the library of the King of France . As ...
... lived about the commencement of the fifth century , and who has a treatise express upon it , called , " The divine art of making gold and silver , " in manuscript , and is , as formerly , in the library of the King of France . As ...
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... lived in the seventh century . In that author's work , entitled the " Philosopher's stone , " mention is made of medicine that cures all leprous diseases . This passage , some authors sup- pose , to have given the first hint of the ...
... lived in the seventh century . In that author's work , entitled the " Philosopher's stone , " mention is made of medicine that cures all leprous diseases . This passage , some authors sup- pose , to have given the first hint of the ...
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... lived in continual dread of their occult powers . With anxious countenance and attentive ears , they listened to the cantrip effusions of these pretended oracles , which prognosticated the bright or gloomy days of futurity . Even ...
... lived in continual dread of their occult powers . With anxious countenance and attentive ears , they listened to the cantrip effusions of these pretended oracles , which prognosticated the bright or gloomy days of futurity . Even ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 145 - But with more lucky hit than those That use to make the stars depose, Like Knights o
Página 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...
Página 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...