Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens: With Stories of Witchcraft, Life-in-death, and MonomaniaC. Ollier, 1848 - 251 σελίδες |
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Anatomy of Melancholy apparition appeared awake belief BEN JONSON body Caleb chamber coffin comfort corpse credulity dark dead dear death Dick Pittock dismal door dreadful dreamer dreams ejaculated Esther exclaimed eyes face Faery Queene fancy fear felt ghastly ghost gloomy hand Haselhurst haunted hear heard Hippocrates hour HUDIBRAS husband hushed imagination lady length Leonard light living long watch looked master Maude and Amie mind Mister Yare MONOMANIA morning mother mystery nature never Newnham night noise NORTHBROOKE old Maude old woman Olivia ominous passed phantasm phantom poor present writer racter Reginald Scot replied returned seemed seen sense servants side silence Sir William sleep sound spectre spirits Squire Babstock story strong sudden supernatural superstition talk terror thing thought tion told uttered visions voice walk wife wild William Harrison Ainsworth wind witch witchcraft wonder words young Doughty
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Σελίδα 33 - Art after Art goes out, and all is Night: See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense!
Σελίδα 35 - At my Nativity my Ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the Planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that Leaden Planet in me. I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company...
Σελίδα 225 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants.
Σελίδα 36 - ... assume, wherein they seem to hear, see, and feel, though indeed the organs are destitute of sense, and their natures of those faculties that should inform them. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves. For then the soul begins to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Σελίδα 81 - Ne let hob-goblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not...
Σελίδα 106 - I love and commend a true good fame, because it is the shadow of virtue ; not that it doth any good to the body which it accompanies, but it is an efficacious shadow, and, like that of St. Peter, cures the diseases of others.
Σελίδα 207 - Knights, ladies, praying in dumb orat'ries, He passeth by, and his weak spirit fails To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails.
Σελίδα 82 - First, that men mark when they hit, and never mark when they miss ; 1 as they do, generally, also of dreams. The second is, that probable conjectures, or obscure traditions, many times turn themselves into prophecies; while the nature of man, which coveteth divination, thinks it no peril to foretell that which indeed they do but collect...
Σελίδα 49 - Whereupon they became further enemies than ever they were; insomuch that both of them made friends of either side to gather together all the old...