 | Amandine Lucile A. Dudevant - 1844 - 498 Seiten
...which the innocent were acquitted, and the guilty disgraced ; the waters rising in a wonderful manner, so as to cover the laurel wreath of the unchaste female who dared the examination. Page 126. the daring Clusia— 'Who, to avoid the violence of Torquatus, cast herself from a tower,... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1857 - 512 Seiten
...Levitical law," (Numbers v. 11-31,) continues that accurate writer, " there was prescribed a mode of trial, which consisted in the suspected person drinking water...adopted in the Greek romances, the heroines of which were invariably subjected to a magical test of this nature, which is one of the few particulars in... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1857 - 496 Seiten
...Levitical law," (Numbers v. 11-81,) continues that accurate writer, " there was prescribed a mode of trial, which consisted in the suspected person drinking water...adopted in the Greek romances, the heroines of which were invariably subjected to a magical test of this nature, which is one of the few particulars in... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1860 - 366 Seiten
...Levitical law," (Numbers v. 11-31,) continues that accurate writer, u there was prescribed a mode of trial, which consisted in the suspected person drinking water...adopted in the Greek romances, the heroines of which were invariably subjected to a magical test of this nature, which is one of the few particulars in... | |
 | Apuleius - 1866 - 568 Seiten
...which the innocent were acquitted, and the guilty disgraced ; the waters rising in a wonderful manner, so as to cover the laurel wreath of the unchaste female who dared the examination. Amid the holy priests and virgin choir ! See her leap fearless on the blazing shrine ! The lambent... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1867 - 706 Seiten
...Levitical law," (Numbers v. 11-31,) continues that accurate writer, " there was prescribed a mode of trial, which consisted in the suspected person drinking water...adopted in the Greek romances, the heroines of which were invariably subjected to a magical test of this nature, which is one of the few particulars in... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1868 - 702 Seiten
...prescribed a mode of trial, which consisted in the suspected person drinking water in the tabernaele. The mythological fable of the trial by the Stygian...adopted in the Greek romances, the heroines of which were invariably subjected to a magical test of this nature, which is one of the few particulars in... | |
 | Francis James Child - 1880 - 774 Seiten
...Levitical law," (Numbers v. 11-31,) continues that accurate writer, " there was prescribed a mode of trial, which consisted in the suspected person drinking water...which disgraced the guilty by the waters rising so us to cover the laurel wreath of the unchaste female who dared the examination, probably had its origin... | |
 | Mary Tighe, John Keats - 1928 - 388 Seiten
...which the innocent were acquitted, and the guilty disgraced; the waters rising in a wonderful manner, so as to cover the laurel wreath of the unchaste female, who dared the examination. Page 162. the daring Clusia — Who, to avoid the violence of Torquatus, cast herself from a tower,... | |
 | Mary Tighe - 2005 - 390 Seiten
...which the innocent were acquitted, and the guilty disgraced; the waters rising in a wonderful manner, so as to cover the laurel wreath of the unchaste female, who dared the examination" (Tighe's note to 1805 edition, 2 12). Tighe's note to the 1803 MS edition adds " Vide Ach: Tat:" (f.54).... | |
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Levitical law," (Numbers v. 11—31,) continues that accurate writer, " there was prescribed a mode of trial, which consisted in the suspected person drinking water in the tabernacle. The mythological fable of the trial by the Stygian fountain, which... 