Myth-landS. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886 - 243 страница |
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... poisonous ; these he is mov- ing aside with his horn , and above is the motto , " I expel poisons " -he , d'Alviano , of course , being the lordly and potent unicorn , his foes the creeping things to be driven from his face . * In the ...
... poisonous ; these he is mov- ing aside with his horn , and above is the motto , " I expel poisons " -he , d'Alviano , of course , being the lordly and potent unicorn , his foes the creeping things to be driven from his face . * In the ...
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... poisonous blood of the creature was shed . We learn , however , in the Saxon annals that Cedric , the West - Saxon monarch , overthrew and slew here the pen - dragon Naud , with five thousand of his men . The name of the hill ...
... poisonous blood of the creature was shed . We learn , however , in the Saxon annals that Cedric , the West - Saxon monarch , overthrew and slew here the pen - dragon Naud , with five thousand of his men . The name of the hill ...
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Frederick Edward Hulme. but in respect of the Infection of his pestiferous and poisonous Aspect wherewith he poisoneth the Air . Not unlike those devillish Witches that do work the Destruc- tion of silly Infants , as also of the Cattel ...
Frederick Edward Hulme. but in respect of the Infection of his pestiferous and poisonous Aspect wherewith he poisoneth the Air . Not unlike those devillish Witches that do work the Destruc- tion of silly Infants , as also of the Cattel ...
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... poisonous nature — a nature that , according to later writers , is so noxious that the mere climbing of the tree by the animal poisons all the fruit , so that all who afterwards eat thereof perish without remedy , and that if one enters ...
... poisonous nature — a nature that , according to later writers , is so noxious that the mere climbing of the tree by the animal poisons all the fruit , so that all who afterwards eat thereof perish without remedy , and that if one enters ...
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... poisonous nature of the salamander in the following graphic way : " A man bit by a salamander should have as many physicians to cure him as the salamander has spots . " The salamander is the well - known device of Francis I. of France ...
... poisonous nature of the salamander in the following graphic way : " A man bit by a salamander should have as many physicians to cure him as the salamander has spots . " The salamander is the well - known device of Francis I. of France ...
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Страница 74 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Страница 91 - Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile; And cry, content, to that which grieves my heart ; And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face to all occasions.
Страница 154 - O LORD, how manifold are thy works ! In wisdom hast THOU made them all : The earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts.
Страница 178 - No sooner had the Almighty ceased, but all The multitude of angels, with a shout Loud as from numbers without number, sweet As from blest voices, uttering joy...
Страница 35 - OLD stories tell, how Hercules A dragon slew at Lerna, With seven heads, and fourteen eyes, To see and well discern-a : But he had a club, this dragon to drub, Or he had ne'er done it, I warrant ye : But More of More-hall, with nothing at all, He slew the dragon of Wantley.
Страница 131 - The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.
Страница 184 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Страница 5 - I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
Страница 170 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace, or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out ; and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill : in short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowl bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose...
Страница 5 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, Or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?