 The Rosicrucians are a People I must bring You acquainted with. The best Account I know of them is in a French Book called Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its Title and Size is so like a Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read it for one by Mistake....  The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope - Page 112by Alexander Pope - 1717 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these Gentlemen the four Elements are inhabited by Spirits, which they...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes or Demons of Earth delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the Air, are the best conditioned... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the four elements are inhabited by spirits which they...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes, or demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the four elements are inhabited by spirits, which they...sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders. The gnomes, or demons of earth, delight in mischief: but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the rious dye. Salamandera. The Gnomen, or demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1831 - 384 pages
...novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the four elements are inhabited by spirits, which they...sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders. The gnomes, or demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 568 pages
...novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the four elements are inhabited by Spirits, which they...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes, or Demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1835 - 610 pages
...novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the four elements are inhabited by Spirits, which they...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes, or Demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the four elements are inhabited by spirits, which they...sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders : the gnomes or demons of earth delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the four elements are inhabited by spirits, which they...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes, or demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, arc the best... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...novel, that many of the fair sex have read it for one by mistake. According to these gentlemen, the aws eternal to the aerial kind. Some in the fields...ether play, And hask and whiten in the hlaze of da demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best... | |
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