From The Blue Poetry Book, edited by Andrew Lang, 1891.

From Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russell, 1914.

"Idol-making," from The Indian Mirror, 1878.

Here's the solar Amen-Ra from "the Turin Papyrus, Saïte Recension of the Book of the Dead," reproduced in The Open Court magazine, 1918.

The central figure is perhaps wondering, "So it's snakes, wings, and fire on the one side, and what's the other side promising again?"  From The New England Primer by Heman Humphrey, 1830.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

Is the past a soap bubble that has already burst?  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1910.

From De Vulnere Cerebri Non Semper et Absolute Lethali by Daniel Sigmund Gottlieb Behrens, 1733.

From The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1916.

Here's a bell-ringer from The Scripture History of Idolatry by Joseph Frederick Berg, 1838.

"Bowing down towards the mouth of the crater, they seemed to salute the goddess of the volcano," from The White Man's Foot by Grant Allen and illustrated by Joseph Finnemore, 1888.

Here's Midnight herself, from The Calton Ballads by Catter Thun, 1898.