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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... stood tiptoe upon a little hill " . 92 § 60. Callisto .... 94 § 61. Europa ; Extracts from Lang's Translation of Moschus , Idyl II ... 95 § 62. Semele ; Lines from Sill's Semele 98 § 63. Ægina .. § 64. Antiope ; Lines from CONTENTS . xiii.
... stood tiptoe upon a little hill " . 92 § 60. Callisto .... 94 § 61. Europa ; Extracts from Lang's Translation of Moschus , Idyl II ... 95 § 62. Semele ; Lines from Sill's Semele 98 § 63. Ægina .. § 64. Antiope ; Lines from CONTENTS . xiii.
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... stood an oak tree containing a serpent's nest . The old serpents were killed by the slaves , but Melampus saved the young ones . One day when he was asleep under the oak , the serpents licked his ears with their tongues , enabling him ...
... stood an oak tree containing a serpent's nest . The old serpents were killed by the slaves , but Melampus saved the young ones . One day when he was asleep under the oak , the serpents licked his ears with their tongues , enabling him ...
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... Stood still , by him astonished at his lore , And all the raging seas for joy forgot to roar . " Simonides was one of the most prolific of the early poets of Greece , but only a few fragments of his compositions have de- scended to us ...
... Stood still , by him astonished at his lore , And all the raging seas for joy forgot to roar . " Simonides was one of the most prolific of the early poets of Greece , but only a few fragments of his compositions have de- scended to us ...
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... stood forth the cham- pion of man against the Olympians . For the son of Cronus had grudged mortals the use of fire , and was , in fact , contemplating their annihilation and the creation of a new race . Therefore , once upon a time ...
... stood forth the cham- pion of man against the Olympians . For the son of Cronus had grudged mortals the use of fire , and was , in fact , contemplating their annihilation and the creation of a new race . Therefore , once upon a time ...
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... - barking dogs . ( 5 ) Atlas , who stood in the far west , bearing on his shoulders 1 For genealogical table , see Commentary , §§ 52-54 . the vault of heaven . He was once regarded as 86 CLASSIC MYTHS IN ENGLISH Literature . 54.
... - barking dogs . ( 5 ) Atlas , who stood in the far west , bearing on his shoulders 1 For genealogical table , see Commentary , §§ 52-54 . the vault of heaven . He was once regarded as 86 CLASSIC MYTHS IN ENGLISH Literature . 54.
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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...