Witch, Warlock, and Magician: Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and ScotlandChatto & Windus, 1889 - Počet stran: 428 |
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Strana 42
... lived hee some two years space in that * Hermes Trismegistus ( ' thrice great ' ) , a fabulous Chaldean philosopher , to whom I have already made reference . The numerous writings which bear his name were really composed by the Egyptian ...
... lived hee some two years space in that * Hermes Trismegistus ( ' thrice great ' ) , a fabulous Chaldean philosopher , to whom I have already made reference . The numerous writings which bear his name were really composed by the Egyptian ...
Strana 43
... lived most part of his life a Magician , and dyed a true Penitent Sinner and Anchorite . ' Upon this popular romance Greene , one of the best of the second - class Elizabethan dramatists , founded his rattling comedy , entitled ' The ...
... lived most part of his life a Magician , and dyed a true Penitent Sinner and Anchorite . ' Upon this popular romance Greene , one of the best of the second - class Elizabethan dramatists , founded his rattling comedy , entitled ' The ...
Strana 45
... lived and reigned in Rome , With all the legions Europe doth contain , They should not touch a grass of English ground : The work that Ninus reared at Babylon , The brazen walls framed by Semiramis , Carved out like to the portal of the ...
... lived and reigned in Rome , With all the legions Europe doth contain , They should not touch a grass of English ground : The work that Ninus reared at Babylon , The brazen walls framed by Semiramis , Carved out like to the portal of the ...
Strana 48
... lived and had his hundred eyes , They could not over - watch Phobetor's * night . Now , Miles , in thee rests Friar Bacon's weal : The honour and renown of all his life Hangs in the watching of this Brazen Head ; Therefore I charge thee ...
... lived and had his hundred eyes , They could not over - watch Phobetor's * night . Now , Miles , in thee rests Friar Bacon's weal : The honour and renown of all his life Hangs in the watching of this Brazen Head ; Therefore I charge thee ...
Strana 55
... lived in poverty and died in poverty ( 1477 ) . 6 The Ordinall of Alchemy ' is a tedious panegyric of the science , interspersed with a good deal of the vague talk about white and red stones and the philo- sophical magnesia in which the ...
... lived in poverty and died in poverty ( 1477 ) . 6 The Ordinall of Alchemy ' is a tedious panegyric of the science , interspersed with a good deal of the vague talk about white and red stones and the philo- sophical magnesia in which the ...
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Strana 102 - (quoth she) ' bury you or no?' ' Oh Trunco,' for so he called her, 'thou wilt bury me, but thou wilt much repent it.' 'Yea, but how long first?' 'I shall die,' said he, 'ere Thursday night.
Strana 406 - The displaying of supposed Witchcraft wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of Deceivers and Impostors, and divers persons under a passive delusion of Melancholy and Fancy. But that there is a corporeal league made betwixt the Devil and the Witch...
Strana 33 - England, bethought himselfe how he might keepe it hereafter from the like conquests, and so make himselfe famous hereafter to all posterities. This (after great study) hee found could be no way so well done as one ; which was to make a head of brasse, and if he could make this head to speake (and heare it when it speakes) then might hee be able to wall all England about with brasse.
Strana 205 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both, of the Old and New Testament...
Strana 172 - s but the twinkling of a star Between a man of peace and war, A thief and justice, fool and knave, A huffing officer and a slave...
Strana 25 - I'll have A whore, shall piss them out next day. Mam. Ha ! why ? Do you think I fable with you ? I assure you, He that has once the flower of the sun, The perfect ruby, which we call elixir, Not only can do that, but, by its virtue, Can confer honour, love, respect, long life ; Give safety, valour, yea, and victory, To whom he will. In eight and twenty days, I'll make an old man of fourscore, a child.
Strana 324 - The fearful abounding at this time in this country of these detestable slaves of the devil, the witches' or enchanters, hath moved me (beloved reader) to dispatch in post, this following treatise of mine...
Strana 165 - Sir Robert Brooke spoke to this purpose : — " ' Mr. Lilly, this Committee thought fit to summon you to appear before them this day, to know, if you can say anything as to the cause of the late fire, or whether there might be any design therein.
Strana 40 - Bacon. Now, masters of our academic state, That rule in Oxford, viceroys in your place, Whose heads contain maps of the liberal arts, Spending your time in depth of learned skill, Why flock you thus to Bacon's secret cell, A friar newly stall'd in Brazen-nose? Say what's your mind, that I may make reply. Burd. Bacon, we hear that...
Strana 400 - A Candle in the Dark, or a Treatise concerning the Nature of Witches and Witchcraft; being Advice to Judges, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and Grand Jurymen, what to do before they passe sentence on such as are arraigned for their lives as Witches.