Thaumaturgia, Or, Elucidations of the MarvellousE. Churton, 1835 - 362 |
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... serpent Python with which it was covered . It is uncertain after what manner these oracles were delivered , though Cicero supposes the Pythoness was inspired , or rather intoxicated by certain vapours which ascended from the cave . Some ...
... serpent Python with which it was covered . It is uncertain after what manner these oracles were delivered , though Cicero supposes the Pythoness was inspired , or rather intoxicated by certain vapours which ascended from the cave . Some ...
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... serpent that had just been hatched . The next day , very early in the morning , he came quite naked into the street , having only a scarf about his middle , holding in his hand a scythe , and tossing about his hair as the priests of ...
... serpent that had just been hatched . The next day , very early in the morning , he came quite naked into the street , having only a scarf about his middle , holding in his hand a scythe , and tossing about his hair as the priests of ...
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... serpent's egg , as the ensign of his order ; his temples were encircled with a wreath of oak - leaves , and he waved in his hand the magic rod . As regards the Druid sacrifice there are vague and contradictory representations . It is ...
... serpent's egg , as the ensign of his order ; his temples were encircled with a wreath of oak - leaves , and he waved in his hand the magic rod . As regards the Druid sacrifice there are vague and contradictory representations . It is ...
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... serpent exercised , in the most curious manner , the invention of the Druids . To the famous anguinum they attributed high virtues . The anguinum or serpent's egg , was a congeries of small snakes rolled together , and incrusted with a ...
... serpent exercised , in the most curious manner , the invention of the Druids . To the famous anguinum they attributed high virtues . The anguinum or serpent's egg , was a congeries of small snakes rolled together , and incrusted with a ...
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... serpent pursues the ravisher of its young , even to the brink of the next river . Pliny , from whom this account is taken ( lib . 29. C. 3. ) proceeds with an enumeration of other absurdities re- lating to the anguinum . This anguinum ...
... serpent pursues the ravisher of its young , even to the brink of the next river . Pliny , from whom this account is taken ( lib . 29. C. 3. ) proceeds with an enumeration of other absurdities re- lating to the anguinum . This anguinum ...
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Strona 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...
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Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
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Strona 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...