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- Jesus Praefigured; Abbot, George (Literature of the Sacred) 1623
- An Historical, Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and other Magical Practices; Beaumont, John 1705
- The Castle of Otranto; Walpole, Horace 1764
- From an Anthology, Some Imagist Poets, of 1915; Aldington, Richard 1915
- From an Anthology, Some Imagist Poets, of 1916; Aldington, Richard 1916
NOTE: “Give me a Quill Pulled from that Eagles Wing” is a quotation from Jesus Praefigured
GIVE me a Quill pul’d from that Eagles vving,
VVho soaring in the bosome of his King,
Saw those deepe secrets, which his Books descrie,
And vve admire, but cannot looke so high.
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Fragment, Illustration, plate I, for The Castle of Otranto, printed in Berlin, 1794, by Horace Walpole. Illustration by Johann Wilhelm Meil (1733-1805), engraved by Johann Friedrich Bolt (1769-1836). *EC75 W1654 764cℓ, Houghton Library, Harvard University
