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... Sneezing . Dreams • The Moon Second Sight Salt Falling . The Spilling of Wine Shoe Omens Looking - Glass Omens Tingling of the Ears . Itching of the Right Eye . Neck . Side Omens relating to the Cheek , Nose , and Mouth Head Omens ...
... Sneezing . Dreams • The Moon Second Sight Salt Falling . The Spilling of Wine Shoe Omens Looking - Glass Omens Tingling of the Ears . Itching of the Right Eye . Neck . Side Omens relating to the Cheek , Nose , and Mouth Head Omens ...
Pagina 59
... SNEEZING . NOTES TO SNEEZING . clxiii . , cites. sceptre fell out of the King's hand , in plaister , in the hall . At his Majesty's trial the head of his cane fell off . And before Cromwell's death a great whale came to Greenwich . He ...
... SNEEZING . NOTES TO SNEEZING . clxiii . , cites. sceptre fell out of the King's hand , in plaister , in the hall . At his Majesty's trial the head of his cane fell off . And before Cromwell's death a great whale came to Greenwich . He ...
Pagina 62
John Brand sir Henry Ellis. SNEEZING . NOTES TO SNEEZING . clxiii . , cites Scot ,. I am of opinion that the vulgar ... sneeze has without doubt been derived to the Christian world , ( 3 ) where it generally pre- 69 62 NOTES TO CHILD'S CAUL.
John Brand sir Henry Ellis. SNEEZING . NOTES TO SNEEZING . clxiii . , cites Scot ,. I am of opinion that the vulgar ... sneeze has without doubt been derived to the Christian world , ( 3 ) where it generally pre- 69 62 NOTES TO CHILD'S CAUL.
Pagina 63
... sneeze of the Emperor of Mono- motapha , there passed acclamations through the city . And as remarkable an example there is of the same custom in the remotest parts of the East , in the Travels of ... sneeze but once NOTES TO SNEEZING . 63.
... sneeze of the Emperor of Mono- motapha , there passed acclamations through the city . And as remarkable an example there is of the same custom in the remotest parts of the East , in the Travels of ... sneeze but once NOTES TO SNEEZING . 63.
Pagina 64
... Sneezing . " The year 750 is commonly reckoned the era of the custom of saying God bless you , to one who happens to sneeze . It is said that , in the time of the pontificate of St. Gregory the Great , the air was filled with such a ...
... Sneezing . " The year 750 is commonly reckoned the era of the custom of saying God bless you , to one who happens to sneeze . It is said that , in the time of the pontificate of St. Gregory the Great , the air was filled with such a ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 91 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Pagina 213 - Lead then, said Eve. He leading swiftly roll'd In tangles, and made intricate seem straight. To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapour, which the night Condenses, and the cold environs round, Kindled through agitation to a flame, Which oft, they say, some evil spirit attends, Hovering and blazing with delusive light, Misleads the amazed night-wanderer from his way To bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool, There swallow'd...
Pagina 38 - I am thy father's spirit ; Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night ; And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Pagina 155 - ... ineffectual. Having occasion to enlarge my garden not long since, I cut down two or three such trees, one of which did not grow together. We have several persons now living in the village, who, in their childhood, were supposed to be healed by this superstitious ceremony, derived down perhaps from our Saxon ancestors, who practised it before their conversion to Christianity.
Pagina 216 - This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, Still walking like a ragged colt, And oft out of a bush doth bolt, Of purpose to deceive us ; And, leading us, makes us to stray, Long winters nights out of the way, And when we stick in mire and clay, He doth with laughter leave us.
Pagina 149 - Himself best knows . but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Hanging a golden stamp about their necks, Put on with holy prayers : and, 'tis spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction.
Pagina 39 - Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence, with a stilly sound. In such a place as this, at such an hour, If ancestry can be in aught believed, Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the world unknown.
Pagina 107 - Is it not ominous in all countries, When crows and ravens croak upon trees ?§ The Roman senate, when within The city walls an owl was seen, Did cause their clergy, with lustrations, Our Synod calls humiliations, The round-faced prodigy t' avert From doing town or country hurt.
Pagina 170 - And they, who to be sure of Paradise, Dying, put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguised.
Pagina 76 - mind upon the eye, or by the eye upon the mind, by which " things distant and future are perceived and seen as if they