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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... means of illusion . 48. The common people stuck to the Catholic doctrine . Devils appear in likeness of an ordinary human being . 49. Even a living one , which was sometimes awkward . " The Troublesome Raigne of King John . " They like ...
... means of illusion . 48. The common people stuck to the Catholic doctrine . Devils appear in likeness of an ordinary human being . 49. Even a living one , which was sometimes awkward . " The Troublesome Raigne of King John . " They like ...
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... means encouraged.1 In addition to this , completion of a contract for marriage de futuro con- firmed by oath , if such a contract were not indeed indissoluble , as was thought by some , could at any rate be enforced against an unwilling ...
... means encouraged.1 In addition to this , completion of a contract for marriage de futuro con- firmed by oath , if such a contract were not indeed indissoluble , as was thought by some , could at any rate be enforced against an unwilling ...
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... means of suppressing a hated doctrine , unless it can be carried to the extent of extermination of its supporters ; and the more far - seeing leaders of the Catholic Church soon recognized that a slight surrender of principle was a far ...
... means of suppressing a hated doctrine , unless it can be carried to the extent of extermination of its supporters ; and the more far - seeing leaders of the Catholic Church soon recognized that a slight surrender of principle was a far ...
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... means of formulæ and rites . that are undeniably the remnants of a form of re- ligious worship . Incomprehensible in their jargon as these formulæ mostly are , and strongly tinctured as they have become with burlesqued Christian sym ...
... means of formulæ and rites . that are undeniably the remnants of a form of re- ligious worship . Incomprehensible in their jargon as these formulæ mostly are , and strongly tinctured as they have become with burlesqued Christian sym ...
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... mean- ingless miracles perpetrated under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church as evidence of divine inter- ference ; and they had not travelled far enough upon the road towards rationalism to be able to reject them , one and all ...
... mean- ingless miracles perpetrated under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church as evidence of divine inter- ference ; and they had not travelled far enough upon the road towards rationalism to be able to reject them , one and all ...
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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...