The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855), Accompanied by an Interpretative and Illustrative CommentaryCharles Mills Gayley |
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... imaginative reach of many readers because of their unfamiliarity with the commonplaces of literary allusion , reference , and tradition . Of such commonplaces few are more frequently recurrent than the situations and agencies of myth ...
... imaginative reach of many readers because of their unfamiliarity with the commonplaces of literary allusion , reference , and tradition . Of such commonplaces few are more frequently recurrent than the situations and agencies of myth ...
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... such myths as have actually acclimated themselves in English - speaking lands , and have influenced the spirit , form , and habit of English imaginative thought ; third , the necessity of excluding all but vi PREFACE .
... such myths as have actually acclimated themselves in English - speaking lands , and have influenced the spirit , form , and habit of English imaginative thought ; third , the necessity of excluding all but vi PREFACE .
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... imagination , and thought . These commonplaces of tradi- tion are to be found largely in the literature of mythology ... imaginative sources of Greece and Rome , the state and statesmanship , legislation xxix.
... imagination , and thought . These commonplaces of tradi- tion are to be found largely in the literature of mythology ... imaginative sources of Greece and Rome , the state and statesmanship , legislation xxix.
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... imagination is universal , its products are akin , and its process is continuous . For this reason the study of the imaginative thought of the ancients through the artistic creations of the moderns is commended to students and readers ...
... imagination is universal , its products are akin , and its process is continuous . For this reason the study of the imaginative thought of the ancients through the artistic creations of the moderns is commended to students and readers ...
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... imagination , an upward lift of moral and religious ideas ; to confess the brotherhood of human- ity and the ... imaginative joy from which the forefathers of Hellenic verse , or Norse , or English , drank , the classic myths quicken our ...
... imagination , an upward lift of moral and religious ideas ; to confess the brotherhood of human- ity and the ... imaginative joy from which the forefathers of Hellenic verse , or Norse , or English , drank , the classic myths quicken our ...
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Common terms and phrases
Achilles Admetus Adonis adventures Æneas Æneid ancient Andrew Lang Apollo Argos arrows Athens Bacchus Baumeister beauty behold Cadmus called cave Ceres chariot clouds Commentary Cronus Cupid Cyclopes darkness daughter dead death deities Deucalion Diana divine dream earth Edda epic eyes father fell flowers goddess gods golden Greece Greek Hades hand heart heaven Hephæstus Hercules heroes Hesiod Homer Iliad immortal Jove Juno Jupiter king land Latona lyre maiden Mars Max Müller Mercury Metam Milton Minerva Minos monster mortals mother mountain Müller mythical mythology myths Neptune Nibelungenlied night Norse nymph Ocean Odyssey Olympus oracle Ovid Perseus Phaëton Pluto poems poets Prometheus Proserpine Psyche queen race river Roman Rome Roscher sacred Satyrs savage serpent sleep song spear stars stood story sweet Thebes thee Theseus Thessaly Thor thou tion Titans translation trees Trojan Trojan War Troy Ulysses Vase picture Venus Vulcan wandering wife wind youth
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Page 434 - 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 335 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea : I am become a name ; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known ; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 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.
Page 444 - 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...
Page 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.
Page 467 - 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...
Page 421 - 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 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.
Page 249 - 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...
Page 418 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...