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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... Giants , Ogres , and Cyclops • 155 • • 170 188 206 • 231 • 252 260 284 292 The True Enjoyment of Splendor • 299 Gog and Magog , and the Wall of Dhoulkarnein Aeronautics , Real and Fabulous . On the Talking of Nonsense A Rainy Day ...
... Giants , Ogres , and Cyclops • 155 • • 170 188 206 • 231 • 252 260 284 292 The True Enjoyment of Splendor • 299 Gog and Magog , and the Wall of Dhoulkarnein Aeronautics , Real and Fabulous . On the Talking of Nonsense A Rainy Day ...
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... giants ' tempesting " among a parcel of mice . The less they were seen , the less the dignity on either side was compromised ; for their effect might be as gigantic as possible . - 66 The truest grandeur is moral . When there is a ...
... giants ' tempesting " among a parcel of mice . The less they were seen , the less the dignity on either side was compromised ; for their effect might be as gigantic as possible . - 66 The truest grandeur is moral . When there is a ...
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... giant mentioned in Beaumont and Fletcher's ' Knight of the Burning Pestle , ' Act iii , Sc . I. vol . vi . p . 411 , edit . 1751. " There is a pretty tale of a witch that had the devil's mark about her , God bless us , that had a giant ...
... giant mentioned in Beaumont and Fletcher's ' Knight of the Burning Pestle , ' Act iii , Sc . I. vol . vi . p . 411 , edit . 1751. " There is a pretty tale of a witch that had the devil's mark about her , God bless us , that had a giant ...
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... Giant Ymer , that they were engendered and first began to move and live . At first they were only worms ; but by order of the gods they at length partook both of human shape and reason ; nev- ertheless , they always dwell in ...
... Giant Ymer , that they were engendered and first began to move and live . At first they were only worms ; but by order of the gods they at length partook both of human shape and reason ; nev- ertheless , they always dwell in ...
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... giant . The dwarfs at first were only the maggots , engendered by its putre- faction : afterwards the gods bestowed upon them under- standing and cunning . By this fiction the northern warriors justified their contempt of them ; and at ...
... giant . The dwarfs at first were only the maggots , engendered by its putre- faction : afterwards the gods bestowed upon them under- standing and cunning . By this fiction the northern warriors justified their contempt of them ; and at ...
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