Les champignons du diable; or, Imperial mushrooms, a mock-heroic poem, by the editor of Salmagundi |
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Les Champignons Du Diable; Or, Imperial Mushrooms, a Mock-Heroic Poem, by ... George Huddesford No preview available - 2019 |
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Adoni-bezek Ægis æra Ampulla anoint antient ASHTAROTH Belial Bishop blood Bonaparte Bonaparte's CANTO carnal Cassoc Catholic Charlemagne chitterlings Chrism Church Citizen First Consul consecrated Consul Grand Court crown Cyrnian Dæmon DAGON damn'd dev'lish Devil divine Drake ecclesiastical Emperor Equality ev'ry fam'd farce favour France French FRENCH CONSULATE Frenchmen friends Gallic Genariello glory Government Grace happiness head Hell Hell's heretic heroes Holiness's Holy honour imperial infernal institutions int'rest Januarius Judge Jeffreys King kraken Liberty Mahomet Majesty Millennarians Naples Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte Nation ne'er Nebuchadnezzar neck nose o'er Panurge papal Paris pate Pawnbroker Pope Pope's princes Rabbin reign Republic rev'rend Rheims rogues Rome Rome's sackbut sacred Saint Saintly SATAN says SENATE CONSERVATEUR Senate's senatorial Serv'd sing social pact Sov'reign swear Tabarders tail tell thought Thumbs and toes Tipstaffs turn'd tutelary dispositions twas Unction РОРЕ
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Page 19 - A person of quality came to my chamber in the Temple, and told me he had two devils in his head (I wondered what he meant), and just at that time, one of them bid him kill me (with that I begun to be afraid, and thought he was mad); he said he knew I could cure him, and therefore entreated me to give him something, for he was resolved he would go to nobody else.
Page 20 - I perceiving what an opinion he had of me, and that 'twas only melancholy that troubled him, took him in hand, warranted him, if he would follow my directions, to cure him in a short time. I desired him to let me be alone about an hour, and then to come again, which he was very willing to. In the...
Page 20 - I went to dinner to his house, and asked him how he did. He said he was much better, but not perfectly well, for, in truth, he had not dealt clearly with me ; he had four devils in his head, and he perceived two of them were gone, with that which I had given him, but the other two troubled him still.
Page 132 - You shall see a monkey sometime, that has been playing up and down the garden, at length leap up to the top of the wall, but his clog hangs a great way below on this side. The bishop's wife is like that monkey's clog; himself is got up very high, takes place of the temporal barons, but his wife comes a great way behind.
Page 19 - I began to be afraid, and thought he was mad. He said he knew I could cure him, and therefore entreated me to give him something, for he was resolved he would go to nobody else. I perceiving what an opinion he had of me, and that...
Page 20 - So I gave him another thing to hang about his neck. Three days after he came to me to my chamber, and professed he was now as well as ever he was in his life, and did extremely thank me for the great care I had taken of him. I fearing lest he might relapse into the like distemper, told him that there was none but myself and one physician more in the whole town that could cure the devils in the head, and that was Dr.
Page 106 - To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
Page 53 - I feel more and more, that in a circumstance as new as it is important, the councils of your wisdom and experience were necessary to enable me to fix my ideas. I request you then to make known to me the whole of your thoughts. The French people can add nothing to the honour and glory with which...
Page 20 - I defired him to let me be alone about an hour, and then to come again, which he was very willing to. In the mean time I got a Card, and...
Page 20 - ... drinking, but eat very little of " supper, and say his prayers duly when he went to bed; and I " made no question but he would be well in three or four days.