The Age of Fable ...S.W. Tilton & Company, 1881 - 472 sider |
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Achilles Æneas alludes ancient Apollo arms arrow Baldur beauty became birds body Brahmans breath brother called cave chariot Chimæra companions Culdees Cyclops daughter dead death deity Diana divine earth Egyptian eyes fate father fell fire Frey friends gave giant Gleipnir goddess gods golden Greeks hand head heard heaven Hercules heroes horn horse Hrungnir island Jotunheim Jove Juno Jupiter king land lived Loki looked maiden Mezentius Milton Minerva monster mother mountain mythology Neptune night nymphs Odin oracle Osiris Ovid palace passed poem poets river rock round sacred says Scylla seized sent serpent ship shore Sibyl sight Skirnir Skrymir sleep stone stood story struck Svadilfari sword temple thee Theseus Thialfi Thor thou threw Thrym told took tree Trojans Troy Turnus Ulysses Utgard-Loki Venus Virgil Vishnu waves wife winds worship wound youth Zoroaster
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Side 89 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Side 219 - 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...
Side 70 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Side 30 - The herded wolves, bold only to pursue; The obscene ravens, clamorous o'er the dead; The vultures to the conqueror's banner true Who feed where Desolation first has fed, And whose wings rain contagion...
Side 434 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, Cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiada, facilis descensus Averno ; Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hie labor est.
Side 206 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Side 313 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Side 260 - The wished-for wind was given : I then revolved The oracle, upon the silent sea ; And, if no worthier led the way, resolved That, of a thousand vessels, mine should be The foremost prow in pressing to the strand, Mine the first blood that tinged the Trojan sand.
Side 166 - 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...
Side 174 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers...