Author: Francis Oscar MannPublisher:
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The Devil in a Nunnery
Author: Francis Oscar MannThe Devil in a Nunnery, and Other Medieval Tales
Author: Francis Oscar MannPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781356486656
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Devil in a Nunnery
Author: Francis Oscar MannPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331835882
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Excerpt from The Devil in a Nunnery: And Other Mediaeval Tales Buckingham is as pleasant a shire as a man shall see on a seven days' journey. Neither was it any less pleasant in the days of our Lord King Edward, the third of that name, he who fought and put the French to shameful discomfiture at Crecy and Poitiers and at many another hard-fought field. May God rest his soul, for he now sleeps in the great Church at Westminster. Buckinghamshire is full of smooth round hills and woodlands of hawthorn and beech, and it is a famous country for its brooks and shaded waterways running through the low hay meadows. Upon its hills feed a thousand sheep, scattered like the remnants of the spring snow, and it was from these that the merchants made themselves fat purses, sending the wool into Flanders in exchange for silver crowns. There were many strong castles there too, and rich abbeys, and the King's Highway ran through it from North to South, upon which the pilgrims went in crowds to worship at the Shrine of the Blessed Saint Alban. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Devil in a Nunnery, and Other Mediaeval Tales
Author: Francis Oscar MannPublisher: Trieste Publishing
ISBN: 9780649561537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Devil in a Nunnery
Author: Francis Oscar MannThe Devil in a Nunnery
Author: Francis Oscar MannPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781976251047
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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The Devil in a Nunnery by Francis Oscar Mann According to a German legend, the devil is master of all arts, and certainly he has given sufficient proof of his musical talent. Certain Church Fathers ascribed, not without good reason, the origin of music to Satan. "The Devil," says Mr. Huneker in his diabolical story "The Supreme Sin" (1920), "is the greatest of all musicians," and Rowland Hill long ago admitted the fact that the devil has all the good tunes. Perhaps his greatest composition is the Sonata del Diavolo, which Tartini wrote down in 1713. This diabolical master-piece is the subject of G�rard de Nerval's story La Sonate du Diable (1830). While the devil plays all instruments equally well, he seems to prefer the violin. Satan appears as fiddler in the poem "Der Teufel mit der Geige," which has been ascribed to the Swiss anti-Papist Pamphilus Gengenbach of the sixteenth century. In Leanu's Faust (1836) Mephistopheles takes the violin out of the hands of one of the musicians at a peasant-wedding and plays a diabolical czardas, which fills the hearts of all who hear it with voluptuousness. An opera Un Violon du Diable was played in Paris in 1849. The Devil's Violin, an extravaganza in verse by Benjamin Webster, was performed the same year in London. In his story "Les Tentations ou Eros, Plutus et la Gloire" Baudelaire presents the Demon of Love as holding in his left hand a violin "which without doubt served to sing his pleasures and pains."
Nunnery Tales, written by a Young Nobleman, and translated from his French manuscript into English
Author: Devil Stories
Author: Maximilian J. RudwinPublisher: E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
ISBN: 6155565554
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Of all the myths which have come down to us from the East, and of all the creations of Western fancy and belief, the Personality of Evil has had the strongest attraction for the mind of man. The Devil is the greatest enigma that has ever con-fronted the human intelligence. So large a place has Satan taken in our imagination, and we might also say in our heart, that his expulsion therefrom, no matter what philosophy may teach us, must for ever remain an impossibility. As a character in imagi-native literature Lucifer has not his equal in heaven above or on the earth beneath. In contrast to the idea of Good, which is the more exalted in proportion to its freedom from anthropomor-phism, the idea of Evil owes to the presence of this element its chief value as a poetic theme. The discrowned archangel may have been inferior to St. Michael in military tactics, but he cer-tainly is his superior in matters literary. The fair angels—all frankness and goodness—are beyond our comprehension, but the fallen angels, with all their faults and sufferings, are kin to us. There is a legend that the Devil has always had literary aspi-rations. The German theosophist Jacob Böhme relates that when Satan was asked to explain the cause of God's enmity to him and his consequent downfall, he replied: "I wanted to be an author." Whether or not the Devil has ever written anything over his own signature, he has certainly helped others compose their greatest works. It is a significant fact that the greatest im-aginations have discerned an attraction in Diabolus. What would the world's literature be if from it we eliminated Dante's Divine Comedy, Calderón's Marvellous Magician, Milton's Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, Byron's Cain, Vigny's Eloa, and Lermon-tov's Demon? Sorry indeed would have been the plight of litera-ture without a judicious admixture of the Diabolical. Without the Devil there would simply be no literature, because without his intervention there would be no plot, and without a plot the story of the world would lose its interest. Even now, when the belief in the Devil has gone out of fashion, and when the very mention of his name, far from causing men to cross themselves, brings a smile to their faces, Satan has continued to be a puissant personage in the realm of letters. As a matter of fact, Beelzebub has perhaps received his greatest elaboration at the hands of writers who believed in him just as little as Shake-speare did in the ghost of Hamlet's father.
A Devil in Nun's Veiling and Other Stories
Author: Francis Charles PhilipsPublisher: Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN: 9781230009148
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...worked in connection with the young lady may be gathered by a dialogue which occurred coincidently with the conference between the barristers. Miss Minnie was at home in the morning-room upstairs, and a visitor, whose name was Captain Archibald, or "Archie," Franklin, was sitting on a very uncomfortable chair in front of her. Captain Franklin had his hat in his hand, and was fingering it nervously, while it was apparent that his hostess was not entirely at her ease either. "Mamma will be so sorry she was out," she said. "May I give you some tea?" "Er--no thank you, Miss Liddington. I--er--in point of fact I was hoping I might find you alone." "I don't understand, Captain Franklin." "I have come to say good-bye," he stammered. He was a good-looking young fellow of about thirty, and if ever a man adored a girl in this world, it was plain that /e adored the one he was trying to talk to. "I have come to say 'good-bye.' I am going out to India, and--I shan't see you any more, Miss Liddington." "Your regiment is ordered out to India?" The colour had sunk from her face, and she spoke in a kind of gasp. "No, the regiment isn't going. I--I intend to exchange, that's all." "Oh?" she said. "You are tired of England?" "No--not tired. I--I think it better I should go." There was a pause while they both watched the canary that flapped its wings against its cage. She turned, and her eyes met his own. "Miss Liddington, Minnie," he exclaimed, "don't you know w/zy I'm going? Pm, going because--I haven't the least right to say it, and I...
The Devil's Other Storybook
Author: Natalie BabbittPublisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613523578
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The further exploits of the Devil in his own realm and in the world above are recounted in ten more tales.