Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens: With Stories of Witchcraft, Life-in-death, and MonomaniaC. Ollier, 1848 - 251 էջ |
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Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens: With Stories of Witchcraft, Life-in ... Charles Ollier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1848 |
Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens: With Stories of Witchcraft, Life-in ... Charles Ollier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1848 |
Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens: With Stories of Witchcraft, Life-in ... Charles Ollier Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1848 |
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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 ghost gloomy hand Haselhurst haunted hear heard Hippocrates hour HUDIBRAS human voice 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 passed phantasm phantom poor present writer racter Reginald Scot replied returned rienced seemed seen sense servants side silence Sir William sleep sound spectre spirits Squire Babstock story strong sudden supernatural superstition talk terror thief thing thought tion told uttered visions voice walk wife wild Wiltshire wind witch witchcraft wonder words young Doughty
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Էջ 149 - Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire ; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw? Alack, alack! 'Tis wonder, that thy life and wits at once Had not concluded all.
Էջ 235 - 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.
Էջ 45 - 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...
Էջ 46 - ... 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.
Էջ 217 - The sculptured dead, on each side, seem to freeze, Emprison'd in black, purgatorial rails : 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.
Էջ 116 - 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.
Էջ 92 - 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...
Էջ 32 - In our sect, Brutus, we have an opinion that we do not always feel or see that which we suppose we do both see and feel, but that our senses being credulous and therefore easily abused (when they are idle and unoccupied in their own objects) are induced to imagine they see and conjecture that which in truth they do not.
Էջ 46 - Thus it is observed, that men sometimes, upon the hour of their departure, do speak and reason above themselves; for then the soul, beginning to be freed from the ligaments of the body, begins to reason like herself, and to discourse in a strain above mortality.
Էջ 206 - METHOUGHT I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from Death by force, though pale and faint.