A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto UncollectedIncludes papers on Heathen mythology, Genii of antiquity, Genii and fairies of the East, etc. |
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... angel . But he has another name for him better than either . Hear how he rolls the harmony of his vowels . 66 Nor was his name unheard , or unador'd In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber ; and how he fell From ...
... angel . But he has another name for him better than either . Hear how he rolls the harmony of his vowels . 66 Nor was his name unheard , or unador'd In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men call'd him Mulciber ; and how he fell From ...
Page 60
... angels of the Christian system but a little more allied to their superiors . " What other philosophers called demons , " says the devout platonical Jew Philo , " Moses usually called angels . " * Next to * There is good reason to ...
... angels of the Christian system but a little more allied to their superiors . " What other philosophers called demons , " says the devout platonical Jew Philo , " Moses usually called angels . " * Next to * There is good reason to ...
Page 61
... angels themselves to Plato , nor indeed how far the Christian and Jewish angel and the demon of the Greeks are not one and the same spirit ; for it is impossible to say how much of the Jewish Cabala is not Alexandrian . On the other ...
... angels themselves to Plato , nor indeed how far the Christian and Jewish angel and the demon of the Greeks are not one and the same spirit ; for it is impossible to say how much of the Jewish Cabala is not Alexandrian . On the other ...
Page 62
... angels , were not incapable of a little aberration . The supposed visits , for instance , of Jupiter down to earth , when he came— " Now , like a ram , fair Helle to pervert , Now , like a bull , Europa to withdraw , " were the work of ...
... angels , were not incapable of a little aberration . The supposed visits , for instance , of Jupiter down to earth , when he came— " Now , like a ram , fair Helle to pervert , Now , like a bull , Europa to withdraw , " were the work of ...
Page 68
... angel that told him not to go that way . Had it been Jeremy Taylor - Jeremy the amiable and the handsome , the Sir Charles Grandison of Christianity , who , with equal comfort to his security , pronounced a pane- gyric upon a wedding ...
... angel that told him not to go that way . Had it been Jeremy Taylor - Jeremy the amiable and the handsome , the Sir Charles Grandison of Christianity , who , with equal comfort to his security , pronounced a pane- gyric upon a wedding ...
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