The Mythology of Ancient Greece and ItalyWhittaker and Company, 1838 - 564 Seiten |
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... or occupy other important stations in society . The present work is of a different character ; its object is to keep up and extend the taste for classic literature , which in my opinion tends so strongly to refine , and iv PREFACE .
... or occupy other important stations in society . The present work is of a different character ; its object is to keep up and extend the taste for classic literature , which in my opinion tends so strongly to refine , and iv PREFACE .
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... character and occupation of the deity on whom it was bestowed . Thus the Grecian votary viewed manly strength and vigour as the leading attributes of the god who presided over war and inspired daring thoughts ; while in the god of ...
... character and occupation of the deity on whom it was bestowed . Thus the Grecian votary viewed manly strength and vigour as the leading attributes of the god who presided over war and inspired daring thoughts ; while in the god of ...
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... character than the Grecian : the Indian is more metaphysical than either the Grecian or the Scandinavian . The mythologies which offer the widest fields for inquiry are those of ancient Greece , of India , and of Scandinavia . To these ...
... character than the Grecian : the Indian is more metaphysical than either the Grecian or the Scandinavian . The mythologies which offer the widest fields for inquiry are those of ancient Greece , of India , and of Scandinavia . To these ...
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... character , and whose work is of the most interesting nature , we mean Pausanias , who travelled in Greece in the second century of the Christian æra , and gathered on the spot the legends of the temples and the traditions of the people ...
... character , and whose work is of the most interesting nature , we mean Pausanias , who travelled in Greece in the second century of the Christian æra , and gathered on the spot the legends of the temples and the traditions of the people ...
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... character of distant lands . Yet still we must not always ex- pect to find in poets all the knowledge of the age they live in ; they love to imitate their predecessors , they often are unac- quainted with the advance of knowledge , they ...
... character of distant lands . Yet still we must not always ex- pect to find in poets all the knowledge of the age they live in ; they love to imitate their predecessors , they often are unac- quainted with the advance of knowledge , they ...
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abode according ancient Aphrodite Apoll Apollo appear Arcadia Argos Artemis ascribed Athens Attica beauty became Bellerophontes Boeotia bore Buttmann Cadmos called Cecrops Centaurs chariot Cyclopes daughter deities Demeter Diodor Dionysos dwelt earth Egypt epithet Erebos Eudocia Eurystheus fable father gave give goddess gods golden Grecian Greece Greeks Hades heaven Helios Hephæstos Hera Heracles Hermes hero Herod Hesiod Homer and Hesiod honour Hygin Hymn Iasôn Ilias island isle killed king Kronos legend Leto married Medeia Minôs moon mortal mother Müller mythe mythic mythology named night Nonnus nymph Ocean Odysseus Olympos oracle origin Ovid Paus Pelasgian Peloponnese Persephone Perseus Pherecydes Pind Pindar Plut poems poet Poseidon probably Proleg Prometheus Pyth race regarded sacred says serpent sire sons temple Thebes Theocr Theog Theogony Theseus Titans took Tril Tzetz viii Virg Völcker Welcker worship Zeus καὶ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 173 - That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers. Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy...
Seite 144 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Seite 53 - And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
Seite 154 - Assyrian queen ; But far above in spangled sheen Celestial Cupid, her famed son, advanced, Holds his dear Psyche sweet entranced. After her wandering labours long, Till free consent the Gods among Make her his eternal bride, And from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy : so Jove hath sworn.
Seite 301 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Seite 64 - The Star that bids the Shepherd fold, Now the top of Heav'n doth hold, And the gilded Car of Day, His glowing Axle doth allay In the steep Atlantick stream.
Seite 217 - 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...
Seite 282 - 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.
Seite 40 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost...
Seite 307 - More lovely than Pandora, whom the gods Endow'd with all their gifts ; and, O ! too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet brought by Hermes, she ensnared Mankind with her fair looks, to be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire.