The Age of Fable: Or Beauties of MythologyA collection of Greek, Roman, Eastern and Northern mythologies. |
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... Body of Patroclus , 281 Amazon , 197 , 339 Amphion and Zethus , 245 Amphitrite , 220 Amun , 355 Antigone and Oedipus , 233 Aphrodite , or Venus , 375 Apollo and Daphne , 29 Apollo and Hyacinthus , 87 Ares , or Mars 10 Argo , Building ...
... Body of Patroclus , 281 Amazon , 197 , 339 Amphion and Zethus , 245 Amphitrite , 220 Amun , 355 Antigone and Oedipus , 233 Aphrodite , or Venus , 375 Apollo and Daphne , 29 Apollo and Hyacinthus , 87 Ares , or Mars 10 Argo , Building ...
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... body , and envy , spite , and revenge for his mind - and scattered themselves far and wide . Pandora hastened to replace the lid ; but , alas ! the whole contents of the jar had escaped , one thing only excepted , which lay at the ...
... body , and envy , spite , and revenge for his mind - and scattered themselves far and wide . Pandora hastened to replace the lid ; but , alas ! the whole contents of the jar had escaped , one thing only excepted , which lay at the ...
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... body over acres of the plain ! Be content with your torch , child , and kindle up your flames , as you call them , where you will , but pre- sume not to meddle with my weapons . " Venus's boy heard these words , and rejoined : " Your ...
... body over acres of the plain ! Be content with your torch , child , and kindle up your flames , as you call them , where you will , but pre- sume not to meddle with my weapons . " Venus's boy heard these words , and rejoined : " Your ...
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... body with your teeth . " He took up the veil , carried it with him to the appointed tree , and covered it with kisses and with tears . " My blood also shall stain your texture , " said he , and drawing his sword plunged it into his ...
... body with your teeth . " He took up the veil , carried it with him to the appointed tree , and covered it with kisses and with tears . " My blood also shall stain your texture , " said he , and drawing his sword plunged it into his ...
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... bodies were buried in one sepulchre , and the tree ever after brought forth purple berries , as it does to this day . If any of our young readers can be so hard - hearted as to enjoy a laugh at the expense of poor Pyramus and Thisbe ...
... bodies were buried in one sepulchre , and the tree ever after brought forth purple berries , as it does to this day . If any of our young readers can be so hard - hearted as to enjoy a laugh at the expense of poor Pyramus and Thisbe ...
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Achilles Aeneas Aeson ancient Apollo arms arrow Athens Bacchus beauty became behold birds body breast breath brother Cadmus called cave celebrated Cephalus Ceres Ceyx chariot Cupid daughter death Deianira deity Diana Dryope earth Epimetheus Erysichthon Eurystheus eyes fate father fell fire fled flowers gave goddess gods golden Greece Greeks hair hand head heard heaven Hercules hero honor horse husband Iobates island Jason javelin Jove Juno Jupiter king looked maiden Medea Meleager Mercury Minerva Minos monster mortal mother Mount mountain Neptune night nymph oracle palace Perseus Phaethon Pirithous Pluto poets Procris Proserpina Psyche queen river rock sacred saying Scylla seized serpent ship shore sight sisters stars stone stood story tell temple Thebes thee Theseus Thor thou told took tree Trojan turned Ulysses Utgard-Loki Venus wife wind wings woods wound youth Zephyrus
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Page vii - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Page 373 - And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 173 - 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, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. All. Double, double toil and trouble ; 20 Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Third Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witches...
Page 119 - With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant. Pleasing was his shape And lovely ; never since of serpent kind Lovelier — not those that in Illyria changed Hermione and Cadmus, or the god In Epidaurus...
Page 161 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth 785 Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 79 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Page 371 - 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.
Page 373 - In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his fancy fetched, Even frqm the blazing chariot of the sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
Page 383 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 353 - 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 labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.