Thesaurus of Horror; Or, The Charnel House Explored ...Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1817 - 175페이지 |
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... rious moral duty by humanity ! A subject which , though many have taken in hand , none have had the firmness requisite to carry it into practical effect , ( without which all writings I are in vain , ) but , petrified by 5.
... rious moral duty by humanity ! A subject which , though many have taken in hand , none have had the firmness requisite to carry it into practical effect , ( without which all writings I are in vain , ) but , petrified by 5.
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... hand , yet determined that whatever he might write on this awful subject should never call up the blush of guilt on the other , or reproach him for vanity , in future , for writing it , he has taken the opinion and advice of others ...
... hand , yet determined that whatever he might write on this awful subject should never call up the blush of guilt on the other , or reproach him for vanity , in future , for writing it , he has taken the opinion and advice of others ...
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... hand to his heart the whole time of its being read , the nobles and bishops holding lighted tapers in their hands , to increase the solemnity . The moment they had obtained the royal assurance , upon oath , they threw down and ...
... hand to his heart the whole time of its being read , the nobles and bishops holding lighted tapers in their hands , to increase the solemnity . The moment they had obtained the royal assurance , upon oath , they threw down and ...
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... hands . And he will not feel himself angry at being eclipsed in the attempt to serve a world ! For his feelings throughout have rather been like those of Jonah , the prophet , when he was sent to preach to the Ninevites , than impelled ...
... hands . And he will not feel himself angry at being eclipsed in the attempt to serve a world ! For his feelings throughout have rather been like those of Jonah , the prophet , when he was sent to preach to the Ninevites , than impelled ...
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... hand ( or agitation rather than progress ) tend to make it somewhat heterogenous , though not incompatible . And the most fastidious censures that can be cast upon it , even by an enemy , will never dis- tress the Author more than his ...
... hand ( or agitation rather than progress ) tend to make it somewhat heterogenous , though not incompatible . And the most fastidious censures that can be cast upon it , even by an enemy , will never dis- tress the Author more than his ...
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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.