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...time or a little later, the Devil too began to show some improvement. In Dante we see little of him. But where he does appear at the close of the "Inferno," he is no longer the spiteful imp of human or even less than human size, going about the earth to play practical jokes and catch the souls of the unwary. He is now a super-human monster, vague, mysterious and terrible...
...have become such a very active mover in the world, that he inspired a number of very similar poems among English poets. Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley all wrote short satires on English society founded on the same idea, that of the Devil visiting "his nice little farm the earth to see how his stock gets on," in which it is taken for granted that the earth, especially England, and still more especially the individual objects of the writer's personal dislike, belong to the Devil without any kind of doubt. He is also found in other poems of this...
...flooring of the cage in the gymnasium is nearly done. It will have trap room to allow men to stand on the earth while practicing pitching...
...ministers of Christ with large incomes, living in finely furnished houses, with wives and families, and stately butlers, and servants in livery, giving dinners all in the best style, so descending and gracious, waving their hands, and mincing their words as if they were the cream of the earth, but without anything to make them clergymen but a black coat and white tie. And the bishops and deans come with women tucked under their arm; and they can't enter church but a fine powdered man runs first with a cushion for them to sit on and a warm sheepskin...
...friend said, "it is young you know." We enter the Chemical laboratory, but feel constrained by the size of the room and depart. We pass from room to room, hall to hall, gaze at this and wonder at that, until in sheer exhaustion, we descend to earth again. We pass out thro' the "Reception Room." We look about for the Amherst man, but with a shiver we become conscious of the gaze of a pair of stern eyes that bespeak the man of blue, and remember that we must hurry to the depot if we do not wish to miss...