 | William Godwin - 1834 - 502 pages
...conceal it ; so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution : but the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid fright the necromancer was in. " The boy had placed his head between his knees ; and said, « In this attitude will I die ; for we shall all... | |
 | Benvenuto Cellini - 1845 - 544 pages
...terror I felt, so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution ; but the truth is, 1 gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid...told him, that all those demons were under us, and what he saw was smoke and shadow ; • so bid him hold up his head and take courage. No sooner did... | |
 | Benvenuto Cellini - 1847 - 524 pages
...terror I felt, so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution ; but the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid...told him that all those demons were under us, and what he saw was smoke and shadow*; so bid him hold up his head and take courage. No sooner did he look... | |
 | Benvenuto Cellini - 1850 - 526 pages
...terror I felt, so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution ; but the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid...told him that all those demons were under us, and what he saw was smoke and shadow*; so bid him hold up his head and take courage. No sooner did he look... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1851 - 370 pages
...terror I felt, so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution ; but the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid...told him that all those demons were under us, and what he saw was smoke and shadow ; so bid him hold up his head and take courage No sooner did he look... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1852 - 459 pages
...terror I felt, so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution ; but the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid...between his knees, and said, ' In this posture will 1 die ; for we shall all surely perish.' I told him that * A preservative against the power of demons.... | |
 | Charles W. Roback - 1854 - 246 pages
...terror I felt, so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution ; but the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid...under us, and that what he saw was smoke and shadow ; so bid him hold up his head and take courage. No sooner did he look up but he cried out " The whole... | |
 | Howard Williams - 1865 - 302 pages
...contributed to inspire the rest with resolution. But the truth is,' ingenuously confesses the amorous artist, 'I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid fright the necromancer was in.' — Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, chap, xiii., Roscoe's transl. — The information was verified,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 534 pages
...because the legions were now ' above a thousand more in number than he had designed ; and ' the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the ' horrid fright the necromancer was in.' Evidently these appearances were aerial images thrown by one or more concave mirrors upon the wreaths... | |
 | L. J. Marcy - 1877 - 342 pages
...terror I felt, so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution ; but the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid...for we shall all surely perish." I told him that all these demons were under us, and what he saw was smoke and shadow ; so bid him hold up his head and... | |
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I was as much terrified as any of them, I did my utmost to conceal the terror I felt, so that I greatly contributed to inspire the rest with resolution; but the truth is, I gave myself over for a dead man, seeing the horrid fright the necromancer was... 
