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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... side fancy , have put forth unconsciously under the nurture of the simple folk that conceived and tended them , luxuriant branches and leaves of narrative , and ́ blossoms of poetic comeliness and form . The myths that we shall relate ...
... side fancy , have put forth unconsciously under the nurture of the simple folk that conceived and tended them , luxuriant branches and leaves of narrative , and ́ blossoms of poetic comeliness and form . The myths that we shall relate ...
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... side by side with stories of the justice and righteousness of the same god , we must conclude that , since the worshipper could not believe both sets of attributes , he preserved his religious attitude before the good god , only by ...
... side by side with stories of the justice and righteousness of the same god , we must conclude that , since the worshipper could not believe both sets of attributes , he preserved his religious attitude before the good god , only by ...
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... side ; And sometimes intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer , or goat's depending beard ; These were the lurking Satyrs , a wild brood Of gamesome deities ; or Pan himself , The simple shepherd's awe - inspiring god . " The ...
... side ; And sometimes intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer , or goat's depending beard ; These were the lurking Satyrs , a wild brood Of gamesome deities ; or Pan himself , The simple shepherd's awe - inspiring god . " The ...
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... side of their brother Cronus against Jupiter and his recently recovered kinsfolk . Jupiter and his hosts held Mount Olympus . For ages victory wavered in the balance . Finally Jupiter , acting again under the advice of Gæa , released ...
... side of their brother Cronus against Jupiter and his recently recovered kinsfolk . Jupiter and his hosts held Mount Olympus . For ages victory wavered in the balance . Finally Jupiter , acting again under the advice of Gæa , released ...
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... side is right . In battle - array , he is resplendent , on his head the gleaming helmet and floating plume , on his arm , the leathern shield , in his hand the redoubtable spear of bronze . ( Well - favored , stately , swift , unwearied ...
... side is right . In battle - array , he is resplendent , on his head the gleaming helmet and floating plume , on his arm , the leathern shield , in his hand the redoubtable spear of bronze . ( Well - favored , stately , swift , unwearied ...
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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...