10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOBGOBLINRY»
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hobgoblinry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hobgoblinry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Bible in Spain, Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and ...
175 mean by this foolish hobgoblinry ? If you have any thing to communicate do
so at once, and go about your business. I am unwell, and you are depriving me of
my repose." " By the virtue of this staff," said the old man, " and the authority ...
George Henry Borrow, 1843
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The Bible in Spain; Or the Journeys, Adventures and ...
175 mean by this foolish hobgoblinry ? If you have any thing to communicate do
so at once, and go about your business. I am unwell, and you are depriving me of
my repose." " By the virtue of this staff," said the old man, " and the authority ...
George Henry Borrow, 1843
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The Bible in Spain: Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and ...
Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an
Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow. Ch. X.]
STAFF OF OFFICE. 175 mean by this foolish hobgoblinry ? If you have any thing
to ...
George Henry Borrow, 1843
4
The young painter's story: The student of the Vatican. The ...
But what in the name of the Pretender and all his abettors, put you in the humour
to ask questions about Lady Blanche and the hobgoblinry of Castle Trowley?"
Rupert looked very blank, not to say foolish, and curled his short silky moustache
...
Henry Noel Humphreys, 1856
In those sweet stanzas, and in plenty of others in this first book and afterwards,
there is nothing of hobgoblinry, corruption, or the charnel-house, there is only the
healthiest out-door feeling. But in the next edition of the poems, published in
1888 ...
George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1873
6
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Not a step, —not even to the threshold,” said Conrad, “ thou hast irrevocably
broken our bargain by thy cursed hobgoblinry. All that I can do for thee is to pay
thy full wages—There it is, and get thee gone.” “ Full wages !” said the spirit,
laughing ...
7
The History of Our Lord as Exemplified in Works of Art: With ...
... into the joys of these Blessed, and the despair of these Rejected, with an
interest and sympathy not affected by the flight of time and the passing of this
world's fashion ; but who was ever edified, or even frightened, at the hideous
hobgoblinry ...
Mrs. Jameson (Anna), Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, 1864
8
The Islands of the Blessed
Jack remembered how dangerous hobgoblins could be, and he wasn't sure he
wanted to involve them. “You wouldn't do anything drastic, would you?” “Of
course not,” scoffed the Nemesis. “Only a harmless bit of hobgoblinry, no worse
than ...
9
The Parterre of fiction, poetry, history [&c.].
Ay, ay," said mine uncle, as one of the guests concluded a narrative replete with
hobgoblinry — "that's nothing to what we have in this village, on the anniversary
of this very night. You must know, gentlemen, that in the time of the civil wars ...
10
The Heavens, the Earth, and the Sea, Or, The Hand of God in ...
Gigantic shadows of men and of moving things at great elevations have been
taken by the superstitious as sanction for their notions about “wraiths,” demons in
the air, and all sorts of hobgoblinry. Some localities are remarkable for both the ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOBGOBLINRY»
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hobgoblinry is used in the context of the following news items.
In praise of Tony Windsor
... replace a good one, but the lesson you taught by your example, that democracies need not be governed by hobgoblinry, is much less likely to be learnt. «The Monthly, Jul 13»
