 | Encyclopaedia - 1855 - 400 pages
...which Sir W. Scott very aptly describes as " a succinct and business-like memorandum of a ghost seer." "Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester was an apparition...finierat: tenues secessit in auras: Mansit odor; posses scire fuisse Deam." In England, under the real magic of the Elizabethan poets, a milder tone has been... | |
 | Albert Smith - English essays - 1860 - 430 pages
...is, perhaps, better known than most of Aubrey's collection: " Anno 1670, not far from Cyrencester, was an Apparition ; being demanded whether a good...most melodious twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a farie." This is certainly unsatisfactory ; the locality is hazily defined, and the detail not well... | |
 | Scottish border - 1869 - 624 pages
...these beings, if we may judge from the following succinct and business-like memorandum of a ghost-seer. "Anno 1670. Not far from Cirencester was an apparition....with a curious perfume, and most melodious twang. MW Lilly believes it was a fairie. So Propertius, ' Omnia finierat ; tenues secessit in auras, Mansit... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1873 - 838 pages
...these beings, if we may judge from the following succinct and business-like memorandum of a ghost-seer. "Anno 1670. Not far from Cirencester was an apparition....with a curious perfume, and most melodious twang. MW Lilly believes it was a fairie. So Propertius, ' Omnia finierat ; tonnes secesait in auras, Mansit... | |
 | English literature - 1875 - 644 pages
...which forces you to laugh, while you are supposed to be horrified. Scott has taken one of the best. " Anno 1670. Not far from Cirencester, was an apparition : being demanded whether a good spirit or bad, it returned no answer, but instantly disappeared with a curious perfume, and a most melodious... | |
 | Gloucestershire (England) - 1881 - 556 pages
...following is in Aubrey's Miscellanies (ed. 1857), p. 81, and must be taken for what it is worth : — "Anno 1670, not far from Cirencester, was an apparition...believes it was a fairy. So Propertius. Omnia finierat ; temies secessit in auras : Mannit odor ; pauses scircfuiase Dcarn. Here, her speech ending, fled... | |
 | John Aubrey, Sir Thomas Browne - Authors, English - 1890 - 334 pages
...but at last would be restored." This Lord Middleton had a great friendship with the Laird Bocconi, and they had made an agreement, that the first of...: being demanded, whether a good spirit, or a bad 1 returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious twang. Mr. W. Lilly... | |
 | English periodicals - 1891 - 900 pages
...visitor from another world in the same happy fashion as did an "apparition at Cirencester in 1670," who, being demanded whether a good spirit or a bad ? returned...disappeared with a curious perfume and most melodious twang " ; to the amazement of the famous astrologer, Mr. W. Lilly, who believed it was a fairy, though Aubrey... | |
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Anno 1670. Not far from Cirencester was an apparition. Being demanded whether a good spirit or a bad, returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume, and most melodious twang. 
