A Smaller Classical Mythology: With Translations from the Ancient Poets, and Questions Upon the WorkWilliam Smith John Murray, 1882 - 283 من الصفحات |
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Achilles Ægyptus Æneas afterwards Agamemnon amongst Amphitryon Aphrodite Apollo Arcădia Argonauts Argos Artemis Athena Atreus beautiful became Book brother buried Cadmus called carried celebrated Centaurs Chapter chariot Conington Crete Cronus Cyclops Dæmons daughter death deities Dēmētēr Describe Dictionary Dionysus Dioscuri divinity earth Edipus Eneid Eōs Erichthonius Erinyes Eurystheus Eurytus fate father Faunus favourite fell festival giant goddess gods golden GRAMMAR Greece Greek Hādēs hand head heaven Helios Hephaestus Hēra Hercules Hermes hero HISTORY Homer honour horses Iolcus island Jason killed king Laomedon Latin latter lyre maiden married Mēdēa Měnělāus Minos monster mortal mother Mount Muses nymphs Oceanus Olympus oracle Orestes oxen Pělops Persephone Perseus Poseidon Post 8vo Priam PRINCIPIA punished QUEST represented river rock Roman Rome sacred sacrifice sent ships sister sometimes sons STUDENT'S temple Thebes Theseus Titans took Trojans Troy Ulysses Virgil wife wind Woodcuts worshipped young youth Zephyrus Zeus
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الصفحة 122 - 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...
الصفحة 49 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
الصفحة 282 - STUDENT'S HISTORY OF ROME. From the EARLIEST TIMES to the ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE, With Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. By Dean LIDDELL.
الصفحة 10 - No walls were yet; nor fence, nor moat, nor mound, Nor drum was heard, nor trumpet's angry sound; Nor swords were forged ; but void of care and crime. The soft creation slept away their time.
الصفحة 112 - Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove 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, On Lemnos the /Egean isle : thus they relate, Erring...
الصفحة 42 - Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her wat'ry labyrinth, whereof who drinks Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
الصفحة 75 - 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.
الصفحة 186 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.
الصفحة 84 - 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...