Hudibras . oked certain wicked spirits in the year 1608, in the parish ofSt. George, Southwark, particularly one such spirit called Heavelon,another called Faternon, and a third called Cleveton. Metonymy is a figure of speech, whereby the cause is put for theeffect, the subject for the adjunct. - Terms of second intention, among the schoolmen, denote ideaswhich have been arbitrarily adopted for purposes of science, in opposi-tion to those which are connected with sensible objects. •* The knight has no faith in astrology; but wishes the conjurer toown plainly that he deals with the devil, and t
Hudibras . oked certain wicked spirits in the year 1608, in the parish ofSt. George, Southwark, particularly one such spirit called Heavelon,another called Faternon, and a third called Cleveton. Metonymy is a figure of speech, whereby the cause is put for theeffect, the subject for the adjunct. - Terms of second intention, among the schoolmen, denote ideaswhich have been arbitrarily adopted for purposes of science, in opposi-tion to those which are connected with sensible objects. •* The knight has no faith in astrology; but wishes the conjurer toown plainly that he deals with the devil, and then he will hope for somesatisfaction from him. To shew what may be done in this way, he re-counts the great achievements of sorcerers. ?* So the witch Canidia boasts of herself in Horace : PoloDeripere lunam vocihus possim meis. The ancients frequently introduced this fiction. See Virgil, Eclogueviii. 69. Ovids Metamorphoses, vii. 207. Propertius, book. i. elegy and TibuUus, book i. elegy ii. M
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