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Thus , in Gerinany , the nightmare , or " night - hag , " is popularly known as the " alp , ” i.e. elf . Among , too , its provincial names is “ mahrt , " or “ mahr , ” different forms of a word which has no relation whatever to the ...
Thus , in Gerinany , the nightmare , or " night - hag , " is popularly known as the " alp , ” i.e. elf . Among , too , its provincial names is “ mahrt , " or “ mahr , ” different forms of a word which has no relation whatever to the ...
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Scott , F there are any three “ birds , " as they call them , which poets are rude tn , they are “ the night raven , bat , and owl . ” The preposterous conjunction of a myth , a mammal , and a harmless bird , as typifying the horrific ...
Scott , F there are any three “ birds , " as they call them , which poets are rude tn , they are “ the night raven , bat , and owl . ” The preposterous conjunction of a myth , a mammal , and a harmless bird , as typifying the horrific ...
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Poets may argue that it is an allowable exercise of poetical licence to extend to Darkness the abuse they really mean for Night only , but I contend that they are not , in the first place , justified in making Night the abominable ...
Poets may argue that it is an allowable exercise of poetical licence to extend to Darkness the abuse they really mean for Night only , but I contend that they are not , in the first place , justified in making Night the abominable ...
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Birds The Poets By Phil ROBINSON | 1 |
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Library The By Rev M G WATKINS M | 89 |
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| Title | The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 252 Volumes 133-158; Volumes 357-394 of Early English newspapers |
| Publisher | F. Jefferies, 1967 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 25 Sep 2012 |
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