Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods, and Illustrious Heroes: Revised for a Classical Course of Education, and Adapted for the Use of Students of Every Age and of Either SexE.J. Coale, 1827 - 305 páginas |
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... , and several works which exhibited his great learning in ancient literature . He died at Lyons , in the year 1678 ; thus it appears that this work was published previous to that year , ADVERTISEMENT . While this book may be resorted to ,
... , and several works which exhibited his great learning in ancient literature . He died at Lyons , in the year 1678 ; thus it appears that this work was published previous to that year , ADVERTISEMENT . While this book may be resorted to ,
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... ancients . From its circular form it has acquired the name of the rotunda . The entrance to it is under a grand portico , supported by sixteen im- mense columns of the Corinthian order , each of them composed of a single piece of red ...
... ancients . From its circular form it has acquired the name of the rotunda . The entrance to it is under a grand portico , supported by sixteen im- mense columns of the Corinthian order , each of them composed of a single piece of red ...
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... ancient Romans , who were so superior in arms , in arts , in eloquence , and in almost every thing that can adorn human nature , were plunged into the grossest idolatry . They reckoned among their gods not only beasts and things void of ...
... ancient Romans , who were so superior in arms , in arts , in eloquence , and in almost every thing that can adorn human nature , were plunged into the grossest idolatry . They reckoned among their gods not only beasts and things void of ...
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... ancient oracle of all Greece . Two doves de- livered responses there to those who consulted it : or , as others used to say , the leaves of the oaks themselves became vocal , and gave forth oracles . He was named Elicius , because the ...
... ancient oracle of all Greece . Two doves de- livered responses there to those who consulted it : or , as others used to say , the leaves of the oaks themselves became vocal , and gave forth oracles . He was named Elicius , because the ...
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... ancients as governing the world by his providence ; and is de- scribed as viewing from an eminence the pursuits and contentions of mankind , and weighing in his scales their fortunes and their merits . He is the moderator of the ...
... ancients as governing the world by his providence ; and is de- scribed as viewing from an eminence the pursuits and contentions of mankind , and weighing in his scales their fortunes and their merits . He is the moderator of the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Achilles Æneid afterward altar ancient Apollo Bacchus beautiful blood body Bona Dea born breast brought called Carmenta carried cause celebrated celestial Ceres CHAPTER chariot Chimæra Corybantes crown Cybele dæmons daughter death dedicated deities derived described Diana divine dogs earth Egyptians esteemed eyes fable father feet fell fire gave Genii goddess gods golden Greek hand harp head heaven hell hence Hercules Hesiod honour horns horses invented island Janus Juno Jupiter Jupiter's killed king Latins married Mars Meleager Mercury Minerva mother mountain Muses Neptune nymphs oracle Ovid painted Pallas PANTHEON Phrygia Plutarch Pluto poets preside priests Proserpine punishment quæ QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION quod Repeat the lines represented river Romans Rome sacred sacrificed sacrifices Saturn sceptre sent serpent signifies sister stone temple Tereus Theseus things thunder Troy Ulysses Venus Vesta Virg Virgil Vulcan whence wife wine women word worshipped
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Página 289 - Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes, Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum ; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; 175 Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit...
Página 28 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Página 220 - The verdant fields with those of heav'n may vie, With ether vested, and a purple sky — The blissful seats of happy souls below : Stars of their own, and their own suns, they know. Their airy limbs in sports they exercise, And. on the green, contend the wrestler's prize. Some, in heroic verse, divinely sing : Others in artful measures lead the ring.
Página 77 - Of sounding brass ; the polish'd axle, steel. Eight brazen spokes in radiant order flame; The circles gold, of uncorrupted frame, Such as the heavens produce : and round the gold Two brazen rings of work divine were roll'd.
Página 265 - Is beaten by the winds — with foggy vapours bound. Snows hide his shoulders: from beneath his chin, The founts of rolling streams their race begin: A beard of ice on his large breast depends.
Página 195 - O'er whose unhappy waters, void of light, No bird presumes to steer his airy flight; Such deadly stenches from the depth arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies.
Página 50 - That high, through fields of air, his flight sustain, O'er the wide earth, and o'er the boundless main...
Página 33 - Patareaque regia servit ; luppiter est genitor; per me, quod eritque fuitque estque, patet ; per me concordant carmina nervis. certa quidem nostra est, nostra tamen una sagitta certior, in vacuo quae vulnera pectore fecit ! 520 inventum medicina meum est, opiferque per orbem dicor, et herbarum subiecta potentia nobis. ei mihi, quod nullis amor est sanabilis herbis nee prosunt domino, quae prosunt omnibus, artes...
Página 38 - I hung thy sacred fane, Or fed the flames with fat of oxen slain ; God of the silver bow ! thy shafts employ, Avenge thy servant, and the Greeks destroy.' Thus Chryses pray'd: — the favouring power attends, And from Olympus