A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri; Or The Great Gods of Phenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete;: Being an Attempt to Deduce the Several Orgies of Isis, Ceres, Mithras, Bacchus, Rhea, Adonis, and Hecate, from an Union of the Rites Commemorative of the Deluge with the Adoration of the Hosts of Heaven, Volumen2At the University Press for the author: and sold by F. and C. Rivington, London; and W. Hanwell and J. Parker, Oxford., 1803 - 428 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Æneid afferts alfo allufion ancient Apoll Apollod Apollonius appellation apud Argo Argon Argonautic arkite Bacchus becauſe Beotia Bibl bull Cabiri called cave cavern Ceres circumftance Colchi confequence Cronus daughter deity deluge denominated deſcribed diluvian Diofcori Egyptians fable facred faid fame fecond feems feen feigned feven fhall fhew fhip fignifies fimilar firft firſt folar folar Noah fome fometimes ftone fuch fuppofed fymbol goddeſs Greeks Hence Hift hiftory himſelf Hindoos Hippa horſe Ibid iſland itſelf Jafon Jupiter likewife Lycoph Minyas Mithras Mithratic moſt Myſteries mythological Neptune Noah Noëtic Nonnus obferved Ofiris Orchomenus Orph paffage patriarch Pauf perfon Phenician Plutarch precifely preferved purpoſe reaſon refpecting repreſented rites Schol ſeems ſhall ſhe ſhip Strab ſuppoſed thefe theſe thofe thoſe Titans Trophonius Typhon Tzet Vide fupra vol worſhip γαρ δε εις εκ εν επι ες και μεν οἱ τε τῷ ὡς
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Página 421 - Unto these sprites to bring to perfect end ; During which work the Lady of the Lake, Whom long he loved, for him in haste did send, Who thereby forced his workmen to forsake, Them bound till his return their labour not to slake.
Página 420 - Whenso he counseld, with his sprites encompast round. And if thou ever happen that same way To travel, go to see that dreadful place : It is an hideous hollow cave (they say) Under a rock that lies a little space From the swift Barry...
Página 114 - And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
Página 402 - Then, swift ascending from the azure wave, He took the path that winded to the cave. Large was the grot, in which the nymph he found (The...
Página 403 - While she with work and song the time divides, And through the loom the golden shuttle guides.
Página 254 - Among the heathen of their purchase got, And fabled how the serpent, whom they call'd Ophion with Eurynome, the wide...
Página 403 - With purple clusters blushing through the green. Four limpid fountains from the clefts distil, And every fountain pours a several rill, In mazy windings wandering down the hill: Where bloomy meads with vivid greens were crown'd, And glowing violets threw odours round. A scene, where, if a god should cast his sight, A god might gaze, and wander with delight!
Página 33 - And nurs'd his youth along the marshy shore, Where great Diana's peaceful altars flame, In fruitful fields; and Virbius was his name. Hippolytus, as old records have said, Was by his...
Página 166 - Celtae, were first known. I question, whether there be in the world a monument, which is much prior to the celebrated Stone-Henge. There is reason to think, that it was erected by a foreign colony; one of the first, which came into the island.
Página 48 - Thrice happy you, whofe walls already rife ; 610 ./Eneas faid ; and view'd, with lifted eyes, Their lofty towers : then entering at the gate, Conceal'd in clouds (prodigious to relate), He mix'd, unmark'd, among the bufy throng, Borne by the tide, and pafs'd unfeen along.