Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, Legends of CharlemagneT. Y. Crowell Company, 1913 - 912 páginas |
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... Queen Dido . 272 The Cumean Sibyl • 273 A Valkyr Stonehenge . King Arthur's Statue at Innsbruck . The Beguiling of Merlin 352 · 353 368 369 • The Round Table 464 · Sir Galahad . King Arthur and Queen Guenever The Lady of the Fountain ...
... Queen Dido . 272 The Cumean Sibyl • 273 A Valkyr Stonehenge . King Arthur's Statue at Innsbruck . The Beguiling of Merlin 352 · 353 368 369 • The Round Table 464 · Sir Galahad . King Arthur and Queen Guenever The Lady of the Fountain ...
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... queen of the gods . Iris , the goddess of the rainbow , was her attendant and messenger . The peacock was her favorite bird . Vulcan ( Hephæstos ) , the celestial artist , was the son of Jupiter and Juno . He was born lame , and his ...
... queen of the gods . Iris , the goddess of the rainbow , was her attendant and messenger . The peacock was her favorite bird . Vulcan ( Hephæstos ) , the celestial artist , was the son of Jupiter and Juno . He was born lame , and his ...
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... queen of the realms of the dead . Ceres presided over agri- culture . Bacchus ( Dionysus ) , the god of wine , was the son of Jupiter and Semele . He represents not only the in- toxicating power of wine , but its social and beneficent ...
... queen of the realms of the dead . Ceres presided over agri- culture . Bacchus ( Dionysus ) , the god of wine , was the son of Jupiter and Semele . He represents not only the in- toxicating power of wine , but its social and beneficent ...
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... queen , Diana . In the ex- tremity of the valley was a cave , not adorned with art , but nature had counterfeited art in its construction , for she had turned the arch of its roof with stones as deli- cately fitted as if by the hand of ...
... queen , Diana . In the ex- tremity of the valley was a cave , not adorned with art , but nature had counterfeited art in its construction , for she had turned the arch of its roof with stones as deli- cately fitted as if by the hand of ...
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... queen of heaven to assist her rival . Delos alone consent- ed to become the birthplace of the future deities . Delos was then a floating island ; but when Latona arrived there , Jupiter fastened it with adamantine chains to the bottom ...
... queen of heaven to assist her rival . Delos alone consent- ed to become the birthplace of the future deities . Delos was then a floating island ; but when Latona arrived there , Jupiter fastened it with adamantine chains to the bottom ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Achilles adventures Æneas Angelica Apollo armor arms army asked Astolpho battle Bayard beauty behold blow body Bradamante brother called Carahue castle Charlemagne Charlot combat court damsel daughter death Durindana earth enchanter eyes fair father fell friends gave Geraint giant goddess gods Guenever hand head heard Heaven hero Hippogriff honor horse Huon island Isoude Jupiter King Arthur knight lady lance land looked lord maiden Malagigi Manawyddan Merlin mountain mounted never nymphs Ogier Orlando Owain palace paladin passed Perceval poets prince Pryderi Pwyll queen Rinaldo rode Rodomont Rogero round Saracen seized sent shield Sir Bohort Sir Gawain Sir Kay Sir Launcelot Sir Lucan Sir Palamedes Sir Tristram slain soon spear stood story struck sword thee Theseus thou threw told took tree Trojans turned Ulysses unto warriors wife wound young youth
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Página 179 - 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...
Página 120 - But hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended.
Página 299 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Página 57 - 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...
Página 165 - Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed, On Circe's island fell. (Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine...
Página 38 - I DID but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes, and dogs...
Página 111 - Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white ; Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk ; Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font : The fire-fly wakens : waken thou with me. Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost, And like a ghost she glimmers on to me. Now lies the Earth all Danae to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me.
Página 20 - 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.
Página 291 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres, Once bless our human ears (If ye have power to touch our senses so), And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the base of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 137 - 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...