Thesaurus of Horror; Or, The Charnel House Explored ...Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817 - 175페이지 |
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... darkness , and shoot their insidious arrows at their superiors . < 4 " Your Critics , should be men of some discerning ; sagacious , prudent , and discreet in thought and word ; not beardless boys , " who've barely learned to spell ...
... darkness , and shoot their insidious arrows at their superiors . < 4 " Your Critics , should be men of some discerning ; sagacious , prudent , and discreet in thought and word ; not beardless boys , " who've barely learned to spell ...
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... DARK AGES LAID OPEN , WHICH NOT ONLY DELUGED THE ROMAN EMPIRE , BUT TRIUMPHED OVER All Christendom for a Thousand Years ! ENTOMBING THE SCIENCES , AND SUBSEQUENTLY REVIVING ALL THE IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION OF GOTHIC BARBARITY ! BY ...
... DARK AGES LAID OPEN , WHICH NOT ONLY DELUGED THE ROMAN EMPIRE , BUT TRIUMPHED OVER All Christendom for a Thousand Years ! ENTOMBING THE SCIENCES , AND SUBSEQUENTLY REVIVING ALL THE IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION OF GOTHIC BARBARITY ! BY ...
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... dark ages , which , as shewn in the work , has involved the world in misery . Ad- ducing only a few cases of horror , out of a host that have transpired within the knowledge of man , where the defunct have been kept eight , ten , twelve ...
... dark ages , which , as shewn in the work , has involved the world in misery . Ad- ducing only a few cases of horror , out of a host that have transpired within the knowledge of man , where the defunct have been kept eight , ten , twelve ...
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... darkness , ( to which all men must one day submit , ) without a precursor , associate , or guide , regardless of the sentinel gorgon's horrid front , who lies athwart his path . Death , in a natural way , is the common lot of all ...
... darkness , ( to which all men must one day submit , ) without a precursor , associate , or guide , regardless of the sentinel gorgon's horrid front , who lies athwart his path . Death , in a natural way , is the common lot of all ...
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... dark mansions of supposed tran- quillity , where ignorance , unconsciously , con- signs its victims to the inexorable prison of a narrow grave ! and its dearest relatives are cram- med and stamped down into the dark , dank , and ...
... dark mansions of supposed tran- quillity , where ignorance , unconsciously , con- signs its victims to the inexorable prison of a narrow grave ! and its dearest relatives are cram- med and stamped down into the dark , dank , and ...
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Abracadabra animal antient appear arts Author awful barbarous Bermondsey blood body bottle breath buried alive Cæsar called Campania carbonic acid cause chemical affinities Christian confined consequence creatures cure dæmon dark ages dead death discovered disease divine dreadful effect Empedocles Encyclopædia Encyclopædia Britannica equally escape evil experiment fatal fearful feelings fluid former ghosts gorgon gothic custom grave Hagiography heart Herculaneum hope horrid horrors human mind ignorance imposture intellect Julius Cæsar knowledge least living lungs manuscripts matter means ment misery modern modes mortal mouth mysteries mystical Naples never oxygen persons Philodemus piece Pompeii premature interment present principle proof proved rational re-animate reader reason reptile respiration restoration Romans Royal Highness sciences shew shut solemn solicitude soul spirit stifling stone supposed syncope talismanic rings thing thought tion transpired tural ture victim Visigoths whole wonderful word writer
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57 페이지 - Greater than human kind she seem'd to look, And, with an accent more than mortal, spoke. Her staring eyes with sparkling fury roll ; When all the god came rushing on her soul. Swiftly she turn'd, and, foaming as she spoke,
1 페이지 - 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 knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
45 페이지 - Ne is there hauke which mantleth her on pearch, Whether high towring or accoasting low, But I the measure of her flight doe search, And all her pray and all her diet know...
149 페이지 - A large quantity of manuscripts was also found among the ruins; and very sanguine hopes were entertained by the learned, that many works of the ancients would be restored to light, and that a new mine of science was on the point of being opened ; but the difficulty of unrolling the burnt parchments, and of deciphering the obscure letters, has' proved such an obstacle, that very little progress has been made in the work.
75 페이지 - The bed clothes are immediately removed, and the body is exposed to the air. This, when cold, must extinguish any spark of life that may remain, and which, by a different treatment, might have been kindled into...
76 페이지 - ... established, that we can scarcely suppose undertakers capable of distinguishing an apparent from a real death. Animals which sleep during winter, show no signs of life ; in this case circulation is only suspended ; but were it annihilated, the vital spark does not so easily lose its action as the fluids of the body, and the principle of life, which long survives the appearance of death, may re-animate a body, in which the action of all the organs, seems to be at an end. But how difficult is it...
80 페이지 - All that saw her, looked upon her as dead, and the report was current through the whole place ; nay, a gentleman of the town actually wrote to his friend in the island of Scilly, that she was deceased. But one of those who were paying the last kind office of humanity to her remains perceived...
57 페이지 - Sibyllae. ventum erat ad limen, cum virgo, 'poscere fata tempus,' ait ; 'deus, ecce, deus ! ' cui talia fanti ante fores subito non vultus, non color unus, non comptae mansere comae ; sed pectus anhelum, et rabie fera corda tument ; maiorque videri nec mortale sonans, adflata est numine quando 50 iam propiore dei. ' cessas in vota precesque, Tros,' ait, ' Aenea, cessas ? neque enim ante dehiscent attonitae magna ora domus.
51 페이지 - I/ to the }) and let the Moone be in the Midheaven, if you can, and take * * * * of the powder of it in white •wine. If it be not thus gathered according to the rules of astrology, it hath little or no virtue in it.