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Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a hornpipe upon the point of a needle. - Joseph Addison, The Drummer (act I, sc. 1) Some who are far from atheists, may make themselves merry with that conceit of thousands of spirits dancing at once upon a needle's point. - Ralph Cudworth, True Intellectual System of the Universe (vol. III, p. 497), (ed, 1829) A Corpse or a Ghost-- . . . I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present. - William de Morgan, Joseph Vance (ch. XXXIX) I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise. - Richard Watson Gilder, Ode I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (I, 3, 163) Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold. - Hesiod, Works and Days (l. 164) Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. - John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 678) Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. - Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock (I, 41)
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