The Classic Myths in English LiteratureCharles Mills Gayley Ginn, 1893 - 540 páginas |
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... took his warning , escaped destruction , rewarded the prophet , and held him in high honor . Other famous soothsayers were Amphiaraüs , who took part in the War of the Seven against Thebes ; Calchas , who accompanied the Greeks during ...
... took his warning , escaped destruction , rewarded the prophet , and held him in high honor . Other famous soothsayers were Amphiaraüs , who took part in the War of the Seven against Thebes ; Calchas , who accompanied the Greeks during ...
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... took active part , - and Hercules , an earthly son of Jupiter , whose arrows aided in their defeat . It was from the overthrow of Pallas that Athene ( or Minerva ) ΑΘΗΝΙΩΝ derived , according to certain records , her proud designation ...
... took active part , - and Hercules , an earthly son of Jupiter , whose arrows aided in their defeat . It was from the overthrow of Pallas that Athene ( or Minerva ) ΑΘΗΝΙΩΝ derived , according to certain records , her proud designation ...
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... took the heap of bones and fat , and , forthwith availing himself of this insult as an excuse for punishing mankind , deprived the race of fire . But Prometheus regained the treasure , stealing it from Heaven in a hollow tube . Pandora ...
... took the heap of bones and fat , and , forthwith availing himself of this insult as an excuse for punishing mankind , deprived the race of fire . But Prometheus regained the treasure , stealing it from Heaven in a hollow tube . Pandora ...
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... took part in the making of the human race , and in the special creation of Pandora . He assisted also at the birth of Mi- nerva , to facilitate which he split Jupiter's head open with an axe . His wife , according to the Iliad and ...
... took part in the making of the human race , and in the special creation of Pandora . He assisted also at the birth of Mi- nerva , to facilitate which he split Jupiter's head open with an axe . His wife , according to the Iliad and ...
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... took his seat on a bank , from whence he could see in every direction . - Jupiter , grieved by the sufferings of his mistress , sent Mercury to despatch Argus . Mercury took his sleep - producing wand , and presented himself on earth as ...
... took his seat on a bank , from whence he could see in every direction . - Jupiter , grieved by the sufferings of his mistress , sent Mercury to despatch Argus . Mercury took his sleep - producing wand , and presented himself on earth as ...
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Página 338 - Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads...
Página 446 - The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Página 197 - THE woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many a summer dies the swan.
Página 222 - Wherewith she sits on diamond rocks, Sleeking her soft alluring locks; By all the nymphs that nightly dance Upon thy streams with wily glance: Rise, rise, and heave thy rosy head From thy coral-paven bed, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answered have.
Página 423 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Página 200 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Página 76 - Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes ! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Página 64 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart And thy crystal-shining quiver; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever: Thou that mak'st...
Página 80 - From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Página 488 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labors, and the words move slow. Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus...