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D, but let them bee writ by whom they will, he that writ them had a brave soul, and must needs be possest with happy thoughts at the time of their composure.

The Compleat Angler 2007

Than vulgar minds may be with all they seek possest.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

Gentlemen, these were a part of the thoughts that then possest me, and I there made a conversion of a piece of an old Ketch, and added more to it, fitting them to be sung by us Anglers: Come,

The Compleat Angler 2007

As I thus sate, these and other sighs had so fully possest my soul, that I thought as the Poet has happily exprest it:

The Compleat Angler 2007

  Though this heart throbs to bursting by anguish possest.

Fugitive Pieces 2007

These were the thoughts that then possest the undisturbed mind of Sir Henry Wotton.

The Compleat Angler 2007

Like Lowe, Cowley was in favour of reducing the emphasis on the classical and paying more attention to modern scholarship, bemoaning, in his preface, that idle and pernicious opinion which had long possest the World, that all things to be searcht in Nature, had already been found and discovered by the Ancients.

Where is your spleen? 2006

My Lady Griffin sent over to her slissators in London, who made arrangemints with the persons who possest the fine collection of ortografs on stampt paper which master had left behind him; and they were glad enuff to take any oppertunity of getting back their money.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

"'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's Frankenstein"

'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2003

This oscillation also determines the novel's complex narrative technique, which is, I shall argue, a strategy to contain the unspeakable anxiety aroused by the idea of "mummy possest."

'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2003