love philter

Hagar, in a fine dramatic melody, promised both, and proceeded to call up the spirit who would bring the love philter.

Desperate certainly she was when she dared even to think of giving a love philter to a minister.

Then, with a warmth of determination worthy a younger man, he demanded an explanation, and received a confession of the poisonous love philter.

There is also, though not Greek, the remarkable study of Lucretius going mad from the effects of his wife’s love philter, in which the most fascinating glimpses of his philosophy of atoms are caught amid his maniacal wanderings, and, last, the very beautiful Demeter and Persephone.

They were as oblivious of their peril as Tristan and Isolde in the spell of the love philter.