In every aesthetic sensation is the stirring of trillions of trillions of ghostly memories buried in the magical soil of the brain.
But long after the singer had gone that voice seemed still to stay,--making within me a sense of sweetness and of sadness so strange that I could not but try to explain to myself the secret of those magical tones.
The pictures on the cave-walls of France probably had a magical or religious purpose.
When we want horses or camels we have only to beat a small magical drum, and they instantly attend our call, ready caparisoned.
And therefore herein significations are natural and concluding upon the Infant, but not to be extended unto magical signalities, or any other person.
Some doubt many have of the Tarantula, or poisonous Spider of Calabria, and that magical cure of the bite thereof by Musick.
The ground whereof were the Magical rods in Poets that of Pallas in Homer, that of Mercury that charmed Argus, and that of Circe which transformed the followers of Ulysses.
On the right of the picture the magus, or magician, is seated, reading his grimoire; with a frame before him supporting the pot containing his magical ingredients.
Mambres entertained the company with his magical performances; and the other incidents of a mediaeval festival followed, throughout which the same tone of burlesque is continued; and so the story continues, to the end.
But this attractive spectacle is sometimes changed with magical rapidity!
Once I halted and watched, thinking that I saw two or three dark shapes dogging us not far behind, but concluded that I had been deceived by the black-art of magical Night, and hastened on after my crazy comrades.
And now that the tale is told, will it cease from bewildering the simple old men of the soil who with one hand grapple the magical past and with the other the realities of the present?
The scene-shifter worked with almost magical haste, with silence, and with supreme effect.
The magical sound caught them unprepared, my boy, and before there was time to remember where they were, they unanimously responded with: "Bully!
She remembered that magical moment by the White Tower when he had transcended his destiny and muttered hoarsely that he would go to hell for her.
To the right the shore curved in a semi-circular sweep to form the head of the great Gulf, while on their left the green waters, ruffled by the breeze and given a magical lustre by the rays of the setting sun, stretched away into the distance.
And they considered that her return to the fight was nothing less than magical and fear gripped their hearts.
When Sir Bedivere approached the shore of the mysterious lake, which lay not far from the spot where Arthur had been wounded, his heart misgave him at throwing away so beautiful and magical a sword.
The law is still in force which requires the destruction of their magical books, and of their churches, and the punishment of all who refuse to sacrifice unto the gods.
The youth drew forth from his clothing the Gospel written by John, saying: "Here is one of the magicalbooks of the Christians which no reasonable man understandeth.
But it is a crime to own or read any magical book of the Christians, and this book is Am-nem-hat's!
In sharp contrast with these valley scenes is the view from Glacier Point down into the Merced and Tenaya Canyons, and out over the magical park landscape to the snow-capped mountains of the High Sierra.
The rapidity and the variety of change in the appearance of the water is nothing to that in the appearance of these magical walls and mountains.
So terrified was an onlooker that he crushed to death the living birds which he held in his hands for some ritual or magical purpose.
Or did you think it a particularly clever invention on your part to pretend that I had sought out these two fish for the purpose of using them as magical charms?
Beauty and virginity are insisted on in various passages in the magical papyri (see Abt op.
For the elucidation of the magical portions of the Apologia I am specially indebted to Abt's commentary (Apologie des Apuleius, Giessen, 1906).
Magical objects were concealed in the cloth, and for that reason I took little care for its safe custody, but left it about anyhow for any one to examine and inspect, if he liked, or even to carry it away!
Apuleius does not say so, as a magical instrument.
But now, if it please you, we will assume with Aemilianus that fish are useful for making magical charms as well as for their usual purposes.
Moses appears as a magician in the magicalpapyri (Griffiths Thompson pap.
For this we know is the prize of magical incantations, namely divination and prophecy.
I give you full leave; invent what you like, rack your memory and your imagination to discover something that might conceivably seem to be of a magical nature.
Nay, since every action must necessarily have some motive, answer me this, you who say that Apuleius tried to influence Pudentilla's heart by magical charms, answer me this!
And yet, you fool, if this very day you had succeeded in getting that handkerchief into your hands, I should deny themagical nature of whatever you might produce from it.
Reluctant and dispirited the truants turned out to fight for a sovereign whom they were scheming to dethrone, and for plunder which had already by some magical process melted away to half the original value.
For an example ofmagical transition of tone I turn to Intermède.
I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word.
Even in crises of graver difficulty, where sterner assailants are to be encountered than Helen's magical smile or Florence's magnetic eyes, the invisible presence seems to inspire her lover with supernatural valiance.
The Professor stood silent still: he had no comfort to offer; indeed his magical wisdom had found none for the world.
And there the man stood holding his candle high, and the rays of the moon became moremagical still beside that little mundane, flickering thing.
And if there was no good in this magical man, then may it not have been he who in due course, long after he himself was safe from life, caused our inventions to be so deadly divulged?
The round horizon was brimming with a pale but magical colour, welling up to the tips of trees and the battlements of white towers.
Bababalouk, whose olfactory nerves were more familiarized tomagical odours, readily conjecturing that Carathis was engaged in her favourite amusements, strenuously exhorted them not to be alarmed.
The circle, the emblem of eternity, and the symbol of the sun, was held sacred in the most ancient ceremonies of incantations; and the whirling round deemed as a necessary operation in magical mysteries.
There is a bold union of magical romanticism and sensuous passion in the poem beginning: I met her in the leafy woods, Early a summer's night; I saw her white teeth in the dark, There was no better light.
