Nightmare AbbeyT. Hookham ... and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818 - 218 sider A satire on Byronism and pessimism in general. A gathering of eccentric characters in a country house, including Mr Glowry, his son Scythrop and Mr Toobad, leads to a series of absurd incidents. |
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Ahrimanes Aquarius Asterias astonished ballast is old called Celinda CHAP cheerful Childe Harold cousin Marionetta Crow Cypress darkness daughter dear Miss O'Carroll delightful dinner disappointment Don Giovanni door dream etta evil eyes fashionable Fatout fens FLOSKY genius gentleman ghastly ghosts Glowry Glowry's grey friar hand happy heard heart Hilary HONORABLE hope human illuminati LARYNX leave liberty light Lincolnshire LISTLESS living locked looked lover Madeira Marion melancholy mermaid merry maid metaphysics mind misanthropy Miss Toobad Mogul morning mystery nerves never Nightmare Abbey old wine passion philosopher pistol pleasure quarrelled Raven reading Dante renounce REVEREND romantic round Sackbut Saint Scythrop's tower secret seems shew silent sitting smile society sound spirit Stella stranger sure table d'hôte terrace thing thought threw throp tion took tragedy transcendental Triton voice whole words wrath young lady
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Side 17 - Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea ! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
Side 168 - Whither in your bowl so free ? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim, the moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine ; And you ballast is old wine.
Side 133 - The neck that made that white robe wan, Her stately neck, and arms were bare; Her blue-veined feet unsandal'd were, And wildly glittered here and there The gems entangled in her hair.
Side 22 - He built many castles in the air, and peopled them with secret tribunals, and bands of illuminati, who were always the imaginary instruments of his projected regeneration of the human species.
Side 73 - Sir, the great evil is, that there is too much commonplace light in our moral and political literature; and light is a great enemy to mystery, and mystery is a great friend to enthusiasm. Now the enthusiasm for abstract truth is an exceedingly fine thing, as long as the truth, which is the object of the enthusiasm, is so completely abstract as to be altogether out of the reach of the human faculties; and, in that sense, I...
Side 26 - Seven copies," he thought, "have been sold. Seven is a mystical number, and the omen is good. Let me find the seven purchasers of my seven copies, and they shall be the seven golden candlesticks with which I will illuminate the world.
Side 168 - Old Care. Here on board we will thee lift. No: I may not enter there. Wherefore so? 'Tis Jove's decree, In a bowl Care may not be; In a bowl Care may not be. Fear ye not the waves that roll ? No : in charmed bowl we swim. What the charm that floats the bowl ? Water may not pass the brim. The bowl goes trim. The moon...
Side 192 - Marionetta," said Mr. Glowry, "whom you profess to love— whom you profess to love, sir " "The internal canal of the ear," said Scythrop, "is partly bony and partly cartilaginous. This internal canal is — " "Is actually in the house, sir; and, when you are so shortly to be —as I expect " "Closed at the further end by the membrana tympani— " "Joined together in holy matrimony—" "Under which is carried a branch of the fifth pair of nerves — " "I say, sir, when you are so shortly to be married...
Side 16 - Richard,' to shelter themselves, from its delusive radiance in the obscure haunt of Old Philosophy. This word Old had great charms for him. The good old times were always on his lips; meaning the days when polemic theology was in its prime, and rival prelates beat the drum ecclesiastic with Herculean vigour, till the one wound up his series of syllogisms with the very orthodox conclusion of roasting the other.