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"Well," said Miss Letitia, "I should think that that poor little weird child of Mrs. Follingsbee's, with the great red bow on her back, had been brought up on this system. Yesterday afternoon I saw her in the garden, with that maid of hers, apparently enjoying a free fight. They looked like a pair of goblins, an old and a young one. I never saw any thing like it."
Wee Willie Winkie had once been read to, out of a big blue book, the history of the Princess find the Goblins a most wonderful tale of a land where the Goblins were always warring with the children of men until they were defeated by one Curdie.
But the question seems to turn not so much upon whether Spohr or Weber were first in the field, as whether Spohr is actually a romantic composer at all. If the subjects which he treated were all that need be taken into account, the matter could easily be decided. No composer ever dealt more freely in the supernatural than Spohr. His operas are peopled with elves, ghosts, and goblins.
"You promised to run the ferry, and you left it." "No, I didn't, Lawry. Don't you talk so to me. You know too much," added Ben angrily. "You never will raise that steamer in two thousand years." "There she is," replied Lawry quietly, as he pointed in the direction of the Goblins. Ben looked at her; he did not seem to be pleased to find her on the top of the water.
It is in this place extraordinarily deep, and the floor is all covered with the bones of men, and in the holes of this part gods and goblins keep their habitation. The flow of the sea is to the north, stronger than a shark can swim, and any man who shall here be thrown out of a ship it bears away like a wild horse into the uttermost ocean.
He would think it a grim little grotesque of rustic diablerie, a quaint tale of goblins, neither less nor more improbable than hundreds of psychic fantasies or farces for which there is really a good deal of evidence. He would be ready to entertain the idea if he found it anywhere except in the New Testament.
Four, five, six Shovels, mattocks, picks! Seven, eight, nine Light your lamp at mine. Ten, eleven, twelve Loosely hold the helve. We're the merry miner-boys, Make the goblins hold their noise. 'I wish YOU would hold your noise, said the nurse rudely, for the very word GOBLIN at such a time and in such a place made her tremble.
In the stone remained the impression of where he had sat; the hard stone had been softer than the hearts of the rebellious people. Funen is especially rich in such relations. "That cairn elevates itself at Christmas upon four red posts, and one can then see the dance and merriment of the goblins within.
Pigafetta originally estimated them at twelve feet. In the time of Commodore Byron, they had already grown downward; yet he said of them that they were "enormous goblins," seven feet high, every one of them.
Every species of hospitality was gladly and respectfully extended to the distressed travellers, and they were kindly requested to stay as long at Glendearg as their circumstances rendered necessary, or their inclination prompted. Ne'er be I found by thee unawed, On that thrice hallow'd eve abroad. When goblins haunt from flood and fen, The steps of men. COLLINS'S Ode to Fear.
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