Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 4Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1851 - Anecdotes |
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... devil whose nose was a trum- pet . Laver ; how it was ambrosia , which when Jupiter came for Europa was evolved through all the intestinal government . Pharmaceutic ode - over - reaching , mov- ing the bowels , getting at the bottom of ...
... devil whose nose was a trum- pet . Laver ; how it was ambrosia , which when Jupiter came for Europa was evolved through all the intestinal government . Pharmaceutic ode - over - reaching , mov- ing the bowels , getting at the bottom of ...
Page 28
... devil , is hungry and thirsty after the blood of souls who goes to and fro upon the earth , and is always doing among strangers what he cannot do amongst his own countrymen ; who ranges like a roaring lion , always seeking whom he may ...
... devil , is hungry and thirsty after the blood of souls who goes to and fro upon the earth , and is always doing among strangers what he cannot do amongst his own countrymen ; who ranges like a roaring lion , always seeking whom he may ...
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... devils . 66 Sarcophagus , the stone of which the an- cients built their monuments , so called from its effects , for it consumes a human body that is placed in it , insomuch that in forty days the very teeth are gone , so that no- thing ...
... devils . 66 Sarcophagus , the stone of which the an- cients built their monuments , so called from its effects , for it consumes a human body that is placed in it , insomuch that in forty days the very teeth are gone , so that no- thing ...
Page 69
... Devil standing in the corner like a black man , and seized him and threw him down . St. Petronilla . ST . PETRONILLA was daughter of the Apostle Peter . The exceeding beauty of the maid alarmed the Apostle , and he suffered from her bed ...
... Devil standing in the corner like a black man , and seized him and threw him down . St. Petronilla . ST . PETRONILLA was daughter of the Apostle Peter . The exceeding beauty of the maid alarmed the Apostle , and he suffered from her bed ...
Page 85
... Devils , when they should after Sunday evensong come to fetch him again , which for that time Brandon granted and performed . " - Ibid . The Bitterness of Death . " THE Angel of Death , " say the Rabbis , " holdeth his sword in his hand ...
... Devils , when they should after Sunday evensong come to fetch him again , which for that time Brandon granted and performed . " - Ibid . The Bitterness of Death . " THE Angel of Death , " say the Rabbis , " holdeth his sword in his hand ...
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