The word Oasis, about which your correspondent H. L. TEMPLE inquires, is
marked in Bailey's edition of Facciolati's _Latin Dictionary_ (in the
Appendix) O[)a]sis, making the _a_ short.
[Hebrew: K]
_Frightened out of his Seven Senses_ (Vol. iv., p. 233.).--A passage
containing the words "seven senses" occurs in the poem of Taliesin called
_Y Byd Mawr_, or the Macrocosm, of which a translation may be found in vol.
xxi. p. 30. of _The British Magazine_. The writer of the paper in which it
is quoted refers also to the _Mysterium Magnum_ of Jacob Boehmen, which
teaches "how the soul of man, or his 'inward holy body,' was compounded of
_the seven properties_ under the influence of the seven planets:"--
"I will adore my Father,
My God, my Supporter,
Who placed, throughout my head
The soul of my reason,
And made for my perception
_My seven faculties_,
Of fire, and earth, and water, and air,
And mist, and flowers,
And the southerly wind,
_As it were seven senses of reason_
For my Father to impel me:
With the first I shall be animated,
With the second I shall touch,
With the third I shall cry out,
With the fourth I shall taste,
With the fifth I shall see,
With the sixth I shall hear,
With the seventh I shall smell;
And I will maintain
That _seven_ skies there are
Over the astrologer's head," &c.