10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PETRIFIC»
Discover the use of
petrific in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
petrific and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Infernal Poetics: Poetic Structures in Blake's Lambeth ...
Fallen into this psychic condition he represents the aspect of mind that formulates
defenses, in this case the limitations of space as defenses against eternity. The
geological imagery of rifting winds, vast forests, petrific abominable chaos, and ...
2
The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with ...
... congealed “By contact with the cavern's nether deeps, Earth's secretest
foundation where, enswathed In dark and fear, primæval mystery sleeps— “
Petrific fount wherein my fancies bathed 515 And straight turned ice. My dreams
of good and ...
Robert Browning, Allan C. Dooley, David Ewbank, 2007
3
The Orphaned Imagination: Melancholy and Commodity Culture ...
Enormous work: he builded them anew / Labour of Ages in the Darkness & the
war of Tharmas / And Los formd Anvils of Iron petrific" (4.52.16-18 £335). Such
labor, even with the stolen hammer of Urthona, can neither destroy nor revive
Urizen ...
What the devils dredge up is viewed as merely "material" for the making of the
bridge, and just in case this soil is living, "The aggregated Soyle / Death with his
Mace petrific, cold and dry, / As with a Trident smote, and fix't as firm / As Delos ...
5
Blake: The Complete Poems
10 So Los spoke: but when he saw blue death in Albion's feet, Again he joined
the Divine Body, following, merciful; While Albion fled more indignant, revengeful,
covering Pl.34 [Design] (38) [Marginal Design] His face and bosom with petrific ...
6
Untrodden Regions of the Mind: Romanticism and Psychoanalysis
As Hazlitt remarked in the Examiner, Coleridge's "superficial, pretty, ornamental"
style is forced "into the service of a story which is petrific." Petrific (with its
suggestion of what one might call the paralytic sublime — frozen, as it were, by
fear) ...
7
Educational Inclusion As Action Research: An Interpretive ...
Getting. started: the. research. focus. and. issue;. finding. the. petrific. mace. Any
significant problem involves conditions that for the moment contradict each other.
Solution comes only by getting away from the meaning of terms that is already ...
O'Hanlon, Christine, 2003
8
The monthly review, or, literary journal
According therefore to the soil which these shells happened 1 to meet with, such
would be their fate ; if they were thrown * deep under ground, and not near a
quarry, or any petrific * matter, but where the soil was compact and close, so as to
...
9
Philosophical Transactions to the Year ____ Abridged and ...
Lastly, the petrific juices may happen to be so strongly impregnated with salts
and metal, or any other mineral Particles, that they will immediately swell and fill
the minutest pores of the wood, and, by a [Ed' en l l 1 w'den coalition, hinder their
...
Royal Society (Great Britain), 1756
10
Lectures on Shakspeare: In Two Volumes
The Furies are petrific to the senses, and pour all their terror at once upon the eye
; the Weird Sisters, almost ludicrous to the sight, are petrific to the thoughts, and
exhaust their terror only by exhausting the mind's power to contemplate them.
Henry Norman Hudson, 1848
