 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1882
...the Rosicrucians : "The best account I know of them is in a French book called Le Comic de Gabalis, which, both in its title and size, is so like a novel,...gnomes, nymphs, and salamanders. The gnomes, or demons oi the earth, delight in mischief ; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882
...skies. The Heu of the sylphs was suggested to Pope by a French book called The Count de Gahalis, " which both in its title and size is so like a novel, that many of the :'air sex have read it for one by mistake." fancy, invention, and keeping, it has never been surpassed.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1883
...the Rosicrucians : " The best account I know of them is in a French book called Le Camte de Gabalis, which, both in its title and size, is so like a novel,...nymphs, and salamanders. The gnomes, or demons of the earth, delight in mischief ; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best-conditioned... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 518 Seiten
...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,...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-conditioned... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885
...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,...the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best conditioned creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885
...spirits of the air ; the Gnomes the elemental spirits of the earth. " The gnomes, or demons of the earth, delight in mischief ; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best conditioned creatures imaginable." — (Pope, Hape of the Lock, Preface.)— ED. 154 HAPPY THE... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885
...elemental spirits of the air; the Gnomes the elemental spirits of the earth. "The gnomes, or demons of the earth, delight in mischief ; but the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best conditioned creatures imaginable." — (Pope, Rape of the Lock, Preface.)— ED. Trust, angry... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 552 Seiten
...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...the Sylphs, whose habitation is in the Air, are the best conditioned creatures imaginable. For they say any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities... | |
 | William Langland - 1886 - 216 Seiten
...fire, the nymphs in the water; and as Pope says, in his Introduction to the Rape of the Lock—'The gnomes, or demons of earth, delight in mischief; but the sylphs, whose habitation is the air, are the best-conditioned creatures imaginable.' 125. Pult out, put out, put forth, exhibited.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871
...you acquainted with. The best account I know of them is in a French book, called Le Comte dc Gabalis, which both in its title and size is so like a novel,...the sylphs, whose habitation is in the air, are the best conditioned creatures imaginable. For they say, any mortals may enjoy the most intimate familiarities... | |
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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. 
