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... beautiful in themselves that the greatest artists and writ- ers ever since have been inspired by them and have constantly represented or referred to them in their works . If we would understand the most beautiful paintings and ...
... beautiful in themselves that the greatest artists and writ- ers ever since have been inspired by them and have constantly represented or referred to them in their works . If we would understand the most beautiful paintings and ...
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... beautiful maidens bathing in a pool , and splashing each other with the water . Their long yellow hair covered them like cloaks and floated behind them on the pool . One of them was even more beautiful than the others , and as soon as ...
... beautiful maidens bathing in a pool , and splashing each other with the water . Their long yellow hair covered them like cloaks and floated behind them on the pool . One of them was even more beautiful than the others , and as soon as ...
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... beautiful girls , but he never found them . And all night he dreamed about them , till he grew thin and pale and was like to die . Now , the way with sick men then was that they made a pilgrimage to the temple of a god ( for they were ...
... beautiful girls , but he never found them . And all night he dreamed about them , till he grew thin and pale and was like to die . Now , the way with sick men then was that they made a pilgrimage to the temple of a god ( for they were ...
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... beautiful lady , and she seemed to float above him in a chariot drawn by doves , and all about her was a crowd of chattering sparrows . She was more beautiful than any woman in the world , and she smiled as she looked at the king , and ...
... beautiful lady , and she seemed to float above him in a chariot drawn by doves , and all about her was a crowd of chattering sparrows . She was more beautiful than any woman in the world , and she smiled as she looked at the king , and ...
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... Then he stole to the grassy bank , and seized the clothes of the most beautiful of the three ; and they heard him move , and rushed out to their clothes . Two of them were clad in a moment THE STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE 7.
... Then he stole to the grassy bank , and seized the clothes of the most beautiful of the three ; and they heard him move , and rushed out to their clothes . Two of them were clad in a moment THE STORY OF THE GOLDEN FLEECE 7.
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abor adventures Apollo Argo arrows Athens beasts beautiful Bellerophon birds Bistonia bull Centaur Centaur boys Chalciope chariot Chimæra Chiron CLASSIC MYTHS clouds Colchis Crantor cried cules Cupid Dædalus dark daughter Diana Diomed dragon earth Endymion Euclemion Eurystheus eyes father fell Fleece of Gold Giant Glaucon goddess gods Greek grew hair hand head heard heaven helmet Heraclea Heracles Hercules heroes horse Iobates Iolcos Jason Juno Jupiter killed King Midas knew LABOR leaped lived looked maiden mares Medea Mercury Minerva Minos moon Mopsus morning mother Mount Helicon mountain Muses Mycena never night Olympus palace Pegasus Perseus Phineus Phorion Phrixus Phrixus and Hellê poets Polydeuces river rocks rose sail shield ship sleep slew smiled spear Sthenelus stood story Strangers temple things thou thought Tiphys told took trees Venus wife wild wind wings wonderful worshiped young Zeus
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Page 123 - That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water.
Page 177 - 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...
Page 126 - QUEEN and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess, excellently bright!
Page 127 - Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose : Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close. Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright ! Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal shining quiver ; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever : Thou that mak'st a day of night, Goddess excellently bright ! Cynthia's JRevels.
Page 179 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light — The Sun in human limbs array'd, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might, And majesty, flash their full lightnings by Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Page 191 - Thetis all the gods were invited with the exception of Eris, or Discord. Enraged at her exclusion, the goddess threw a golden apple among the guests, with the inscription,
Page 181 - Because thou canst not be My mistress, I espouse thee for my tree: Be thou the prize of honour and renown; The deathless poet, and the poem crown. Thou shalt the Roman festivals adorn, And, after poets, be by victors worn.
Page 63 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky. There I suck the liquid air, All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree.
Page 183 - How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies; How she...
Page 184 - ... clouds at sunset or at dawn came over the countenance of Diana thus taken by surprise. Surrounded as she was by her nymphs, she yet turned half away, and sought with a sudden impulse for her arrows. As they were not at hand, she dashed the water into the face of the intruder, adding these words: "Now go and tell, if you can, that you have seen Diana unapparelled.