Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of CharlemagneT. Y. Crowell Company, 1913 - 912 páginas |
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... honor of the nine Muses . Mercury gave the lyre to Apollo , and received from him in exchange the caduceus.1 Ceres ( Demeter ) was the daughter of Saturn and Rhea . She had a daughter named Proserpine ( Per- sephone ) , who became the ...
... honor of the nine Muses . Mercury gave the lyre to Apollo , and received from him in exchange the caduceus.1 Ceres ( Demeter ) was the daughter of Saturn and Rhea . She had a daughter named Proserpine ( Per- sephone ) , who became the ...
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... honor fled . In their places came fraud and cunning , violence , and the wicked love of gain . Then seamer spread sails to the wind , and the trees were torn from the moun- tains to serve for keels to ships , and vex the face of ocean ...
... honor fled . In their places came fraud and cunning , violence , and the wicked love of gain . Then seamer spread sails to the wind , and the trees were torn from the moun- tains to serve for keels to ships , and vex the face of ocean ...
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... of unequal lengths , side by side , made an instrument which he called Syrinx , in honor of the nymph . " Before Mercury had finished his story he saw Argus's eyes all asleep . As his head nodded 30 STORIES OF GODS AND HEROES.
... of unequal lengths , side by side , made an instrument which he called Syrinx , in honor of the nymph . " Before Mercury had finished his story he saw Argus's eyes all asleep . As his head nodded 30 STORIES OF GODS AND HEROES.
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... honor , and hastened to ancient Tethys and Oceanus , the powers of ocean , and in answer to their inquiries thus told the cause of her coming : " Do you ask why I , the queen of the gods , have left the heavenly plains and sought your ...
... honor , and hastened to ancient Tethys and Oceanus , the powers of ocean , and in answer to their inquiries thus told the cause of her coming : " Do you ask why I , the queen of the gods , have left the heavenly plains and sought your ...
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... honor . " Cly- mene stretched forth her hands towards the skies , and said , " I call to witness the Sun which looks down upon us , that I have told you the truth . If I speak falsely , let this be the last time I behold his light . But ...
... honor . " Cly- mene stretched forth her hands towards the skies , and said , " I call to witness the Sun which looks down upon us , that I have told you the truth . If I speak falsely , let this be the last time I behold his light . But ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Achilles adventures Æneas Angelica Apollo armor arms army asked Astolpho battle Bayard beauty behold blow body Bradamante brother called Carahue castle Charlemagne Charlot combat court damsel daughter death Durindana earth enchanter eyes fair father fell friends gave Geraint giant goddess gods Guenever hand head heard Heaven hero Hippogriff honor horse Huon island Isoude Jupiter King Arthur knight lady lance land looked lord maiden Malagigi Manawyddan Merlin mountain mounted never nymphs Ogier Orlando Owain palace paladin passed Perceval poets prince Pryderi Pwyll queen Rinaldo rode Rodomont Rogero round Saracen seized sent shield Sir Bohort Sir Gawain Sir Kay Sir Launcelot Sir Lucan Sir Palamedes Sir Tristram slain soon spear stood story struck sword thee Theseus thou threw told took tree Trojans turned Ulysses unto warriors wife wound young youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 179 - Castalian spring, might with this Paradise Of Eden strive ; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove, Hid Amalthea, and her florid son Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye ; Nor where Abassin kings their issue guard, Mount Amara, though this by some supposed True Paradise, under the Ethiop line By Nilus...
Página 120 - But hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended.
Página 299 - 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 57 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Página 165 - Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed, On Circe's island fell. (Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine...
Página 38 - I DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs...
Página 111 - Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white ; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk ; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me.
Página 20 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human limbs array'd, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight, The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Página 291 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 137 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...