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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Page 61
... body , and partaking still more of the soul of the world ; perhaps the souls of men who had been heroical on earth , or sent down to embody them to that end . And lastly came the souls of men , which were the faintest emanation of the ...
... body , and partaking still more of the soul of the world ; perhaps the souls of men who had been heroical on earth , or sent down to embody them to that end . And lastly came the souls of men , which were the faintest emanation of the ...
Page 62
... body only as an instrument . Nor was this soul the guardian angel or demon , though some- times called a demon by reason of its superiority , but man himself . It was immortal , pre - existent ; and the object of virtue was to restore ...
... body only as an instrument . Nor was this soul the guardian angel or demon , though some- times called a demon by reason of its superiority , but man himself . It was immortal , pre - existent ; and the object of virtue was to restore ...
Page 64
... body ; and what is remarkable , though he could not supply fate itself , he is said to have supplied things fortuitous ; that is to say , " to give us a chance , " as we phrase it , and put us in the way of shaping what we were to ...
... body ; and what is remarkable , though he could not supply fate itself , he is said to have supplied things fortuitous ; that is to say , " to give us a chance , " as we phrase it , and put us in the way of shaping what we were to ...
Page 80
... bodies out of the woods . The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving . Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine , With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving . No nightly trance ...
... bodies out of the woods . The oracles are dumb , No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving . Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine , With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving . No nightly trance ...
Page 90
... body of the 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 ...
... body of the 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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