The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855): Accompanied by an Interpretative and Illustrative CommentaryGinn, 1911 - 597 Seiten |
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Achilles adventures Ægyptus Æneas Æneid Agamemnon Ajax Apollo Argos Athens Bacchus Balder Baumeister beauty brother Brünnhilde Cadmus called chariot clouds Cronus Cupid Cyclops darkness daughter death deity Demeter descended Diana divine earth Edipus Epic of Hades Euripides eyes father fell giant goddess gods golden Greece Greek hand heart heaven Hector Hercules hero Homer horse Iliad Illustrative Jove Juno Jupiter king land Loki maiden Max Müller Medea Meleager Mercury Metam Milton Minerva Minos monster Morris mortal mother mythical mythology myths Neptune Nibelungs night Norse nymph Odin Odyssey Olympus oracle Ovid Painting Paradise Lost Peleus Perseus poem poets Prometheus Proserpine Psyche queen race Ring river Rome sacred Satyr sculpture serpent Shakespeare Siegfried Sigurd sleep song spear story sword Textual Thebes thee Theocritus Theseus Thessaly Thor thou translation Trojan Trojan War Troy Tyndareus Ulysses Utgard-Loki Vase Venus wife wind Wotan youth Zeus
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Seite 488 - that Coleridge has in mind in his dream of Kubla Khan: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. In one of Moore's juvenile poems he alludes to the practice of throwing garlands or other light objects on the stream of
Seite 464 - rose, and Phcebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. See Milton's Sonnet, " I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs," for allusion to Latona. In Art. In the shrine of Latona in Délos there was, in the days of Athenaeus, a shapeless wooden idol.
Seite 464 - in Don Juan, 3, 86 : The isles of Greece I the isles of Greece I Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phcebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Seite 486 - Kore (the daughter of Ceres) : Proserpina. Larissa : a city of Thessaly, on the river Peneiis. Illustrative. Milton's sonnet, On his Deceased Wife : Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Chaucer, Legende of Good Women, 208
Seite iii - TO THE MUSES Whether on Ida's shady brow, Or in the chambers of the East, The chambers of the sun, that now From ancient melody have ceas'd; Whether in Heav'n ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air, Where the melodious winds have birth; > Whether
Seite iii - crystal" rocks ye rove, Beneath the bosom of the sea, Wandering in many a coral grove, Fair Nine, forsaking Poetry; How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you ! The languid strings do scarcely move, The sound is forc'd, the notes are few ! WILLIAM BLAKE
Seite 464 - Childe Harold, 4, 161 : Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poetry, and light,— The Sun, in human limbs arrayed, 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
Seite 274 - And on the joys we shared in mortal life, — The paths which we had trod — these fountains, flowers, My new-planned cities, and unfinished towers. " But should suspense permit the foe to cry, ' Behold they tremble ! — haughty their array, Yet of their number no one dares to die
Seite 222 - CEchalia crowned With conquest, felt the envenomed robe, and tore, Through pain, up by the roots Thessalian pines, And Lichas from the top of CEta threw Into the Euboic Sea. 1 In this state he embarked on board a ship and was conveyed home. Dejanira, on seeing what she had unwittingly done, hanged herself. Hercules, prepared to die, ascended Mount
Seite 462 - 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 Illustrative. Spenser, Faerie Queene,