Observations on popular antiquities: including the whole of mr. Bourne's Antiquitates vulgares. revised by sir H. Ellis, Volume 31855 |
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... DEATH , AND BIBLE CUTS ; upwards of 150 wood engravings . 2 vols . in 1. 7s . 6d . 54. JESSE'S ANECDOTES OF DOGS , with Additions and Woodcuts 5s - Or , with the addition of 34 steel Engravings , 7s . 6d . 55. STARLING'S ( MISS ) NOBLE ...
... DEATH , AND BIBLE CUTS ; upwards of 150 wood engravings . 2 vols . in 1. 7s . 6d . 54. JESSE'S ANECDOTES OF DOGS , with Additions and Woodcuts 5s - Or , with the addition of 34 steel Engravings , 7s . 6d . 55. STARLING'S ( MISS ) NOBLE ...
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... Death - Watch 223 225 Pillory ib . • • Death Omens peculiar to Fami- OMENS 110 • lies • . 227 Child's Caul , or Silly How 114 • Corpse Candles , & c .. . 237 Sneezing 119 Omens among Sailors . 239 Dreams 127 Weather Omens 241 The Moon ...
... Death - Watch 223 225 Pillory ib . • • Death Omens peculiar to Fami- OMENS 110 • lies • . 227 Child's Caul , or Silly How 114 • Corpse Candles , & c .. . 237 Sneezing 119 Omens among Sailors . 239 Dreams 127 Weather Omens 241 The Moon ...
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... Death 373 Basilisk , or Cockatrice Unicorn . Mandrake Divination by Virgilian , Homeric , or Bible Lots Divination by the Speal , or Blade Bone · Divination by the erecting of Figures Astrological . Chiromancy , or Manual Divina- • tion ...
... Death 373 Basilisk , or Cockatrice Unicorn . Mandrake Divination by Virgilian , Homeric , or Bible Lots Divination by the Speal , or Blade Bone · Divination by the erecting of Figures Astrological . Chiromancy , or Manual Divina- • tion ...
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... death . Men doe commonly hate and spit at the damnifying sorcerer , as unworthie to live among them , whereas they flie unto the other in necessitie , they depend upon him as their God , and by this meanes thousands are carried away to ...
... death . Men doe commonly hate and spit at the damnifying sorcerer , as unworthie to live among them , whereas they flie unto the other in necessitie , they depend upon him as their God , and by this meanes thousands are carried away to ...
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... death deluded , say They have been wolves and dogs , and sailed in egge - shels ' Over the sea , and rid on fiery dragons , Pass'd in the air more than a thousand miles All in a night the enemy of mankind So pow'rfull , but false and ...
... death deluded , say They have been wolves and dogs , and sailed in egge - shels ' Over the sea , and rid on fiery dragons , Pass'd in the air more than a thousand miles All in a night the enemy of mankind So pow'rfull , but false and ...
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Page 396 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Page 303 - Himself best knows : but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Page 242 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind, And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
Page 153 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Page 312 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Page 315 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference.
Page 73 - Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy...
Page 192 - CALL for the robin-redbreast and the wren, Since o'er shady groves they hover And with leaves and flowers do cover The friendless bodies of unburied men. Call unto his funeral dole The ant, the field-mouse, and the mole To rear him hillocks that shall keep him warm And (when gay tombs are...
Page 159 - To see the phantom train their secret work prepare. (To monarchs dear, some hundred miles astray, Oft have they seen Fate give the fatal blow ! The seer, in Sky, shriek'd as the blood did flow, When headless Charles warm on the scaffold lay...
Page 292 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the losa of the use of the limb.