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Pagina 7
... poor persons in Pendle Forest , accused of witchcraft , in 1633 , describing mi- nutely the manner in which she was made a witch . In the Relation of the Swedish Witches , at the end of Glanvil's Sadducismus Triumphatus , we are told ...
... poor persons in Pendle Forest , accused of witchcraft , in 1633 , describing mi- nutely the manner in which she was made a witch . In the Relation of the Swedish Witches , at the end of Glanvil's Sadducismus Triumphatus , we are told ...
Pagina 13
... poor son . ' The first circuit his lordship went westward , Mr. Justice Rainsford , who had gone former cir- cuits there , went with him ; and he said that the year before a witch was brought to Salisbury , and tried before him . Sir ...
... poor son . ' The first circuit his lordship went westward , Mr. Justice Rainsford , who had gone former cir- cuits there , went with him ; and he said that the year before a witch was brought to Salisbury , and tried before him . Sir ...
Pagina 16
... poor woman is so severely injured , that the sheriff has deemed it necessary to take a precognition of the facts . " Coles , in his Art of Simpling , p . 67 , observes that , " if one hang misletoe about their neck , the witches can ...
... poor woman is so severely injured , that the sheriff has deemed it necessary to take a precognition of the facts . " Coles , in his Art of Simpling , p . 67 , observes that , " if one hang misletoe about their neck , the witches can ...
Pagina 20
... poor old woman . He applied to a person called a wise man , who pretends to lay these malignant wretches , and who has , no doubt , made pretty good inroads upon the farmer's pocket , but without having the desired effect . The ...
... poor old woman . He applied to a person called a wise man , who pretends to lay these malignant wretches , and who has , no doubt , made pretty good inroads upon the farmer's pocket , but without having the desired effect . The ...
Pagina 28
... poor woman , who happened to be very ugly , was almost drowned in the neighbourhood of Worcester , upon a supposition of witchcraft ; and had not Mr. Lygon , a gentleman of singular humanity and influence , interfered in her behalf ...
... poor woman , who happened to be very ugly , was almost drowned in the neighbourhood of Worcester , upon a supposition of witchcraft ; and had not Mr. Lygon , a gentleman of singular humanity and influence , interfered in her behalf ...
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Pagina 396 - 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 303 - 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 242 - O' th' compass in their bones and joints, Can by their pangs and aches find All turns and changes of the wind, And better than by Napier's bones Feel in their own the age of moons...
Pagina 153 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Pagina 312 - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch and one to pray And two to bear my soul away.
Pagina 315 - There's fennel for you, and columbines; there's rue for you; and here's some for me; we may call it herb of grace o' Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference.
Pagina 73 - Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nature, Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres ; Thy...
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