Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire — stories of Celaeno and the Harpies — may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition ; but they were there before. They are transcripts, types, — the archetypes are in us, and eternal. Essays of Elia - Página 74por Charles Lamb - 1835 - 412 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William James Linton - 1883 - 396 páginas
...the Pouke, nor other evil sprights, Ne let mischievous witches with their charms, Ne let hobgoblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not ! Let not the screech-owl nor the stork be heard, Nor the night-raven that still deadly yells, Nor... | |
| 1884 - 536 páginas
...are tranquility. Gorgone and Hydras and Chimseras dire — stories of Celseno and the Harpies — may may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition...types — the archetypes are in us, and eternal." Another remarkable circumstance in the superstitious impressions which affect those who have no real... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1885 - 424 páginas
...tired, and kave fallen into a very dismal and fantastic mood. Whence and what are we, " that things whose sense we see not, fray us with things that be not?" If I had the heart of that wondrous bird in the Persian tales, which being pressed upon a human heart,... | |
| 1887 - 818 páginas
...invited him to dine at the Castle the next night, and to take Basil with him. CHAPTER VII. A LUCKY GHOST. "Names whose sense we see not Fray us with things that be not." "WKLL, and how 's the kitten?" .said Uncle Chayter. I did not think that my uncle had walked up, under... | |
| University of Nebraska (Lincoln campus) - 1918 - 596 páginas
...the Pouke nor other evill sprights, Ne let mischivous witches with theyr charmes, Ne let hob-Goblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not: Let not the shriech Oule nor the Storke be heard, Nor the night Raven that still deadly yels, Nor damned... | |
| Louise Imogen Guiney - 1888 - 184 páginas
...goat or a bat. Spenser has him : Ne let the Pouke, ne other evill spright, . . . Ne let hobgoblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not." " Fray," as you are likely to guess, means to frighten or to scare. THE IRISH POOKA WAS A HORSE TOO.... | |
| 1889 - 552 páginas
...the Pouke,1 nor other evil sprights, Ne let mischievous witches with their charms, Ne let hobgoblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not ! Let not the screech-owl nor the stork be heard, Nor the night-raven that still deadly yells, Nor... | |
| Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 páginas
...cell-damned murderer are tranquillity. Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimroras dire — stories of Celaeno and the Harpies — may reproduce themselves in the...recital of that, which we know in a waking sense to bo false, come to affect us at all ? — or Names, whose sense wo see not, Fray us with things that... | |
| C. J. T. - 1890 - 222 páginas
...that alludes to his name of Puck:— " Ne let the Pouke, nor other evill spright, Ne let Hob-goblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not." "In our childhood," says Reginald Scot, "our mothers' maids have so terrified us with an oughe divell... | |
| Charles Anderson Dana - 1890 - 976 páginas
...pouke, nor other evill sprights, Ne let mischievous witches with their charmes, Ne let hob-goblins, names whose sense we see not, Fray us with things that be not : Let not the shriech-owle, nor the storke, be heard ; Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells... | |
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