 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...You acquainted with. The best Account I know of them is in a French Book call'd Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its Title and Size is so like a Novel,...Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnomes, or Daemons of Earth, delight in Mischief; but the Sylphs, whose Habitation is in the Air, are the best-condition'd... | |
 | James Longenbach - 1991 - 348 Seiten
...of The Rape of the Lock. In his dedication to Mrs. Arabella Fermer he describes Le Comte as a book "which both in its Title and Size is so like a Novel,...of the Fair Sex have read it for one by mistake." Yeats read the book at Stone Cottage in his effort to correlate Lady Gregory's folklore with the literature... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown - 1989 - 532 Seiten
...baroque prose romances, but condemns ' Pope's dedication to The rape of the lock says one of his sources 'both in its Title and Size is so like a Novel, that...of the Fair Sex have read it for one by Mistake'. The book, Le Comte de Gabalis, is eighty-eight pages. It is evident that Pope used the term for what... | |
 | Health Research - 1993 - 148 Seiten
...you acquainted with. The best account I know of them is in a French book called Lc Gomtc de Gabalis, which, both in its title and size, is so like a novel,...spirits, which they call sylphs, gnomes, nymphs and * Hist. of Pliilnsnphy, ii. 462. salamanders. The gnomes, or demons of earth, delight in mischief ;... | |
 | Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 Seiten
...you acquainted with. The best account I know of them is in a French book call'd Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its title and size is so like a Novel,...many of the fair Sex have read it for one by mistake. ("To Miss Arabella Fermor," 217) The episode described in The Rape is the material of the novel. As... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 Seiten
...best account I know of them is in a French book called Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its tide and size is so like a novel, that many of the fair...have read it for one by mistake. According to these gendemen, the four elements are inhabited by spirits, which they call sylphs, gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders.... | |
 | Christopher McIntosh - 1998 - 208 Seiten
...You acquainted with. The best account 1 know of them is in a French book call'd Le Comte de Gabalis. According to these Gentlemen, the four Elements are...Spirits, which they call Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs and Salamanders."2 These creatures hover over events in Pope's poem. The Sylphs, for example, are whimsically... | |
 | J. McLaverty - 2001 - 286 Seiten
...was 'a French Book call'd Le Comte de Gabalis, which both in its Title and Size is so like a \ocel, that many of the Fair Sex have read it for one by Mistake'. Even in jest Pope is aware that the appearance of a book influences the way it is read; the members... | |
 | Christopher Fox - 2003 - 306 Seiten
...Sciences Secretes (Paris, 1671), a popularization of Rosicrucian lore which, according to Alexander Pope, "both in its Title and Size is so like a Novel, that many of the Fair Sex have read it for one by mistake."11 Virtually everything Swift needed to know about the alchemists and the mystics he could... | |
 | Bb N De Montfaucon De Villars - 2005 - 389 Seiten
...Ga&a/u, which both in its title and size read it for one by mistake. According to these Geutiernen, the four Elements are Inhabited by Spirits, which...call Sylphs, Gnomes, Nymphs, and Salamanders. The Gnumes or Demons of Edith delight in mjschief ; but the Sylphs, whose habitation '.& in the Air, are... | |
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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. 
