The Age of Fable: Or Beauties of MythologyA collection of Greek, Roman, Eastern and Northern mythologies. |
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... present day , and therefore it was that I eagerly accepted the call to prepare a new edition of this en- trancing book . So many discoveries have been made during the last forty years in the domain of art , literature , and archaeology ...
... present day , and therefore it was that I eagerly accepted the call to prepare a new edition of this en- trancing book . So many discoveries have been made during the last forty years in the domain of art , literature , and archaeology ...
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... presents to one another , and the slaves were indulged with great lib- erties . A feast was given them at which they sat at table , while their masters served them , to show the natural equality of man , and that all things belonged ...
... presents to one another , and the slaves were indulged with great lib- erties . A feast was given them at which they sat at table , while their masters served them , to show the natural equality of man , and that all things belonged ...
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... presents , into which every god had put some blessing . She opened the box incautiously and the bless- ings all escaped , hope only excepted . This story seems more probable than the former ; for how could hope , so precious a jewel as ...
... presents , into which every god had put some blessing . She opened the box incautiously and the bless- ings all escaped , hope only excepted . This story seems more probable than the former ; for how could hope , so precious a jewel as ...
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... present and future . I am the god of song and the lyre . My arrows fly true to the mark ; but , alas ! an arrow more fatal than mine has pierced my heart ! I am the god of medicine , and know the virtues of all healing plants . Alas ! I ...
... present and future . I am the god of song and the lyre . My arrows fly true to the mark ; but , alas ! an arrow more fatal than mine has pierced my heart ! I am the god of medicine , and know the virtues of all healing plants . Alas ! I ...
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... presents to her husband . Cephalus was so happy in his wife that he resisted all the entreaties of Aurora , and she finally dismissed him in displeasure , saying : " Go , ungrateful mortal ; keep your wife , whom , if I am not much ...
... presents to her husband . Cephalus was so happy in his wife that he resisted all the entreaties of Aurora , and she finally dismissed him in displeasure , saying : " Go , ungrateful mortal ; keep your wife , whom , if I am not much ...
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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.