...Persecution, and the Covenant—Times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour! And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...half-told the preternatural tale, Romance of Giants, chronicles of Fiends, Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures...

...persecution, and the Covenant — times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour ! And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...With long and ghostly shanks — forms which once Could never be forgotten ! In his heart, Where Fear sate thus, a cherished visitant, Was wanting yet...

...persecution, and the covenant, times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour; And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ancled too, With long and ghastly shanks—forms which once seen Could never be forgotten. In...

...persecution, and the covenant, times Whoso echo rings through Scotland to this hour; And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...preternatural tale, Romance of giants, chronicle of tiends, Profuse in garniture of wooden cuts Strange and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd,...

...persecution, and the covenant, times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour; And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume, torn and incomplete. That left bvf-told the preternatural tale, Romance of giants, chronicle of fiends, Profuse in garniture of wooden...

...persecution, and the Covenant — times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour ! And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume, torn and incomplete, That left lialf-told the preternatural tale, Romance of giants, clirouicle of fiends, Profuse in garniture of...

...seventeenth century, and are adorned with rude woodcuts, probably copies of the original ones — " wooden cuts Strange, and uncouth ; dire faces, figures dire, Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean ancled too, With long and ghostly shanks, forms which once seen, Can never be forgotten !" —...

...persecution, and the Covenant—times Whose echo rings through Scotland to this hour ! And there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume,...sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks—forms which once seen Could never be forgotten ! In his heart, Where Fear sate thus, a cherished...

...there, by lucky hap, had been preserved A straggling volume, torn tmd incomplete, That le!l hilf-told in feats of art, Far beyond in joy of heart Were...Standers-by, Clapping hands with shout and stare, What Sharp-knec'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too, With long and ghostly shanks — forms which once...

...may produce " Romance of giants, chronicle of fiends," and may " body forth " " dire faces, figurée dire, Sharp-kneed, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled...— forms which, once seen, Could never be forgotten !" Goethe's Mephistopheles is the most unholy creation of powerful imagination in all literature. If...