| The Salamandrine Contributor(s): MacKay, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0766188191 ISBN-13: 9780766188198 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2004 Annotation: 1842. The author derived the idea for his poem, The Salamandrine, from the following quote: Our fathers being true philosophers and speaking to God face to face, complained to Him of the wretched fate of these people; and God, whose mercy is illimitable, remembered Him that it was not impossible to find a remedy for this evil. He made known to them that in the same manner as man, by the alliance which he has contracted with God, has been made a participator of the divinity; so the Sylphs, the Gnomes, the Nymphs, and the Salamanders, by the alliance which they may contract with man, can be made participators of man's immortality. Thus a Nymph or a Sylphide becomes immortal and capable of the bliss to which we aspire, when she is happy enough to marry one of the wise; and a Gnome or a Sylph ceases to be mortal from the moment that he marries one of the daughters of men. See the other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.60 lbs) 152 pages |
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