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... never abroad →→→ but then his habits were of a domestic and rather sedentary character . He did not see much company -but he daily received visits from the first characters in the renowned medical school of this city , and he could ...
... never abroad →→→ but then his habits were of a domestic and rather sedentary character . He did not see much company -but he daily received visits from the first characters in the renowned medical school of this city , and he could ...
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... never quits me . I in vain tell myself a hundred times over that it is no reality , but merely an image summoned up by the morbid acuteness of my own excited imagination , and deranged organs of sight . But what avail such reflections ...
... never quits me . I in vain tell myself a hundred times over that it is no reality , but merely an image summoned up by the morbid acuteness of my own excited imagination , and deranged organs of sight . But what avail such reflections ...
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... never occurred to his elder friend as likely to produce the sounds he had heard . It is scarce necessary to add , that the highly ima- ginative superstition of the Wild Huntsman in Ger- many seems to have had its origin in strong fancy ...
... never occurred to his elder friend as likely to produce the sounds he had heard . It is scarce necessary to add , that the highly ima- ginative superstition of the Wild Huntsman in Ger- many seems to have had its origin in strong fancy ...
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... never pretended to astrological know- ledge , yet could precisely inform such who desired his assistance , from whence goods stolen from them were gone , and whither carried , with many things of the like nature ; nor was he ever known ...
... never pretended to astrological know- ledge , yet could precisely inform such who desired his assistance , from whence goods stolen from them were gone , and whither carried , with many things of the like nature ; nor was he ever known ...
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... never killed or scalped any one , the English became convinced that they were not real Indians and Frenchmen , but that the Devil and his agents had assumed such an appearance , although seemingly not enabled effectually to support it ...
... never killed or scalped any one , the English became convinced that they were not real Indians and Frenchmen , but that the Devil and his agents had assumed such an appearance , although seemingly not enabled effectually to support it ...
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Page 61 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
Page 50 - There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, "Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
Page 147 - Witness those rings and roundelays Of theirs, which yet remain, Were footed in Queen Mary's days On many a grassy plain; But since of late, Elizabeth And, later, James came in, They never danced on any heath As when the time hath been.
Page 42 - Thro ilka bore the beams were glancing, And loud resounded mirth and dancing. Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi usquabae, we'll face the Devil!
Page 146 - FAREWELL rewards and fairies, Good housewives now may say, For now foul sluts in dairies Do fare as well as they. And though they sweep their hearths no less Than maids were wont to do, Yet who of late, for cleanliness, Finds sixpence in her shoe ? Lament, lament, old abbeys, The fairies lost command ; They did but change priests...
Page 136 - Subterranean and for the most part Invisible People heretofore going under the name of Elves, Fawnes, and Fairies, or the like."* In this discourse, the author,
Page 35 - Not long after the death of a late illustrious poet, who had filled, while living, a great station in the eye of the public, a literary friend, to whom the deceased had been well known, was engaged during the darkening twilight of an autumn evening in perusing one of the publications which professed to detail the habits and opinions of the distinguished individual who was now no more. As the reader had enjoyed the intimacy of the deceased to a considerable degree he was deeply interested in the publication,...
Page 303 - ... on his mind, to make a clear conscience as far as confession could do it. The criminal fetched a deep groan, and declared that he was unable longer to endure the life which he had led for years. He then confessed the murder of the drummer, and added, that as a considerable reward had been offered, he wished his comrade to deliver him up to the magistrates of Salisbury, as he would desire a shipmate to profit by his fate, which he was now convinced was inevitable.
Page 60 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 36 - Their sitting-room opened into an entrance-hall rather fantastically fitted up with articles of armor, skins of wild animals, and the like. It was when laying down his book, and passing into this hall, through which the moon was beginning to shine, that the individual of whom I speak saw right before him, and in a standing posture, the exact representation of his departed friend, whose recollection had been so strongly Drought to his imagination.