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... told , Whirls on high a soulless fiery ball , Helios guided then his car of gold , In his silent majesty , o'er all . Oreads then these heights around us filled ; Then a dryad dwelt in yonder tree , From the urn of loving naiads rilled ...
... told , Whirls on high a soulless fiery ball , Helios guided then his car of gold , In his silent majesty , o'er all . Oreads then these heights around us filled ; Then a dryad dwelt in yonder tree , From the urn of loving naiads rilled ...
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... told . On the first night of the new moon , when she shines like a thin gold thread in the sky , he left his palace , and climbed up through the hills , and hid in the wood by the edge of the pool . When the dawn began to shine silvery ...
... told . On the first night of the new moon , when she shines like a thin gold thread in the sky , he left his palace , and climbed up through the hills , and hid in the wood by the edge of the pool . When the dawn began to shine silvery ...
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... told her how long he had loved her , and how the goddess had sent him to be her husband , and at last she prom- ised , and took his hand , and in her shining robes went down the hill with him to the palace . But he felt as if he walked ...
... told her how long he had loved her , and how the goddess had sent him to be her husband , and at last she prom- ised , and took his hand , and in her shining robes went down the hill with him to the palace . But he felt as if he walked ...
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... told him what Ino had bidden them to say , that Phrixus and Hellê must be offered as a sacrifice to appease the gods . The king was very sorrowful at this news , but he could not disobey the gods . So poor Phrixus and Hellê were ...
... told him what Ino had bidden them to say , that Phrixus and Hellê must be offered as a sacrifice to appease the gods . The king was very sorrowful at this news , but he could not disobey the gods . So poor Phrixus and Hellê were ...
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... told that a man with only one shoe would come some day , and take away his kingdom . And there was the half - shod man of whom the prophecy had spoken . But he still remembered to be courteous , and he " JASON ANSWERED : ' I AM JASON ...
... told that a man with only one shoe would come some day , and take away his kingdom . And there was the half - shod man of whom the prophecy had spoken . But he still remembered to be courteous , and he " JASON ANSWERED : ' I AM JASON ...
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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
Popular passages
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.