 Loke, say that she there possesses large apartments, strongly built, and fenced with gates of iron. Her hall is Grief; her table, Famine; Hunger, her knife; Delay, her servant; Faintness. her porch; Sickness and Pain, her bed; and her tent, Cursing and...  Northern Antiquities: Or, A Description of the Manners, Customs, Religion ... - Page 86by Paul Henri Mallet - 1770Full view - About this book
 | Paul Henri Mallet - 1770 - 420 pages
...diftributes thofe who are fenjt her; that is, all who die through ficknefs or old age (B). Here {he poiTefles vaft . apartments, ftrongly built, and fenced with...her bed ; and her tent *, CURSING and HOWLING. The one half of her body is blue ; the other half covered with fkin, and of the colour * Or perhaps, her... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 486 pages
...with grates of 'iron. Her hall is Grief; her table, Famine; Hunger, her knife ; Delay, her servant ; Faintness, her porch ; Sickness and Pain, her bed ; and her tent, Cursing and Howling.1 . ' Edcla Fab. xvi. Here we seem to have the assumption of the serpentine form and the dreadful... | |
 | 610 pages
...grates of iron. Her hall is grief; her table, famine ; hunger, her knife; delay, her servant; 227 230 faintness, her porch ; sickness and pain, her bed ; and her tent, cursing and bowling." Few descriptions equal this horrible sublimity. IV. 1. The Redeemer.— In the Gothic mythology,... | |
 | 1825 - 396 pages
...with grates of iron. Her hall is grief; her table, famine; hunger, her knife; delay, her servant ; faintness, her porch ; sickness and pain, her bed ; and her tent, cursing and howling-''4 Few descriptions equal this horrible sublimity. IV. 1. The Redeemer. — In the Gothic... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1831 - 458 pages
...grates of iron. Her hall is Grief; her table, Famine; Hunger, her knife; Delay, her servant ; Fainlness, q Holding. THE FLOOD OF NOAH. — Josephus, in his first book against Apion, states, that Berosus, the... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1833 - 346 pages
...the great serpent of Midgard, and the third is Hela, or Death." Of this Hela, the same fable says—" Her hall is GRIEF ; FAMINE is her table; HUNGER, her...her porch ; SICKNESS and PAIN, her bed; and her tent (or perhaps, her curtains) CURSING and HOWLING- The one half of her body is blue; the other half covered... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1834 - 348 pages
...idgard, ,and the third is Hela, or Death." Of this Hela, the same fable says—" Her hall is GKIEF ; FAMINE is her table; HUNGER, her knife ; DELAY, her valet; SLACKNESS, her maid; PRECIPICE, her gate ; PAINTNESS, her porch ; SICKNESS and PAIN, her bed; and her tent (or perhaps, her curtains) CURSING... | |
 | George Smith - 1846 - 562 pages
...given of her residence is at once poetic and terrible : " Here she possesses vast apartments, strongly built, and fenced with large grates. Her hall is Grief...Faintness, her porch ; Sickness and Pain, her bed ; and her curtains, "Cursing and Howling. The one half of her body is blue, the other half covered with skin,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1852 - 754 pages
...grates of iron. Her hall is grief ; her table famine ; hunger, her knife; delay, her servant ; faintm , her porch ; sickness and pain, her bed ; and her tent, cursing and howling." THE Fi.i'ori or NOAH. — Josephus, in his first book against Apion, states that Berosiu the Chaldean historian... | |
 | 1871 - 460 pages
...residence is spoken of in the following terrible language: "Here she possesses vast apartments, strongly built, and fenced with large grates. Her hall is Grief;...valet ; Slackness, her maid; Precipice, her gate; Paintness, her porch ; Sickness and Pain, her bed; and her curtains Cursing and Howling." Such was... | |
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