Lamia key themes and quotes

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Love

  • 'nor grew they pale, as mortal lovers do'
  • 'the ever smitten Hermes'
  • 'his eyes had drunk her beauty up'
  • happy in beauty, life, and love'
  • 'had fixed his eye, without a twinkle or stir'
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Appearance and Reality

  • 'he seems the ghost of folly haunting my sweet dreams'
  • 'philosophy will clip an Angel's wings'
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Death

  • 'she vanished, and Lycius' arms were empty of delight'
  • 'Lamia melt into a shade'
  • 'No pulse, or breath they found'
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Tragic Downfall

  • 'nothing but pain and ugliness were left'
  • 'let me once more have a woman's shape'
  • 'the serpent prison - house'
  • 'no pulse, or breath they found'
  • 'she vanished and Lycius' arms were empty of delight'
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Super-Natural

  • 'the serpent prison-house'
  • 'philosophy will clip and Angel's wings'
  • 'how to entangle...Your soul in mine'
  • 'she was a gordian shape of dazzling hue'
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Beauty

  • 'to see herself escaped from so sore ills'
  • 'let me once more have a woman's shape'
  • 'with all it's pearls complete'
  • 'his eyes had drunk her beauty up'
  • 'happy in beauty, life, and love'
  • 'had fixed his eye, without a twinkle or stir'
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Nature

  • 'the serpent prison-house'
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