Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed by Them, as it was Generally Held During the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding; with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Works |
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... creed of witchcraft . " — C . LAMB . ' But I will say , of Shakspere's works generally , that we have no full impress of him there , even as full as we have of many His works are so many windows , through which we see a glimpse of the ...
... creed of witchcraft . " — C . LAMB . ' But I will say , of Shakspere's works generally , that we have no full impress of him there , even as full as we have of many His works are so many windows , through which we see a glimpse of the ...
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... creed . The most ordinary events of the savage's every - day life do not admit of a natural solution ; his whole existence is bound in , from birth to death , by a net- work of miracles , and regulated , in its smallest details , by ...
... creed . The most ordinary events of the savage's every - day life do not admit of a natural solution ; his whole existence is bound in , from birth to death , by a net- work of miracles , and regulated , in its smallest details , by ...
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... creed . It is a demonstrable fact that the primitive religions now open to observation attribute specific events and results to distinct supernatural beings ; and there can be little doubt that this is the initial step in every creed ...
... creed . It is a demonstrable fact that the primitive religions now open to observation attribute specific events and results to distinct supernatural beings ; and there can be little doubt that this is the initial step in every creed ...
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... creed of the Western Church , and popular- ized in Elizabethan times by Dekker's " Hierarchie . " The subject was one which , from its nature , could not be settled ex cathedrâ , and consequently the subject had to grow up as best it ...
... creed of the Western Church , and popular- ized in Elizabethan times by Dekker's " Hierarchie . " The subject was one which , from its nature , could not be settled ex cathedrâ , and consequently the subject had to grow up as best it ...
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... creed of the majority , was a dangerous sceptic ; his book was publicly burnt by the common hang- man ; 2 and not long afterwards a royal author wrote a treatise " against the damnable doctrines of two principally in our age ; whereof ...
... creed of the majority , was a dangerous sceptic ; his book was publicly burnt by the common hang- man ; 2 and not long afterwards a royal author wrote a treatise " against the damnable doctrines of two principally in our age ; whereof ...
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Page 73 - Turk; false of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand; hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. Let not the creaking of shoes nor the rustling of silks betray thy poor heart to woman; keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy the foul fiend.
Page 111 - Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be...
Page 59 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 98 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 57 - Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane, O, answer me!
Page 58 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 90 - But afterwards the common opinion was that these women were either the weird sisters, that is (as ye would say) the goddesses of destinie, or else some nymphs or feiries, indued with knowledge of prophesie by their necromanticall science, bicause everie thing came to passe as they had spoken.
Page 107 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me : Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up ; Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down ; Though castles topple on their warders...
Page 114 - ... and that in the night following the said cat was conveyed into the midst of the sea by all these Witches...