Tales of Ancient GreeceLongmans, Green, 1868 - 461 pàgines |
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Pàgina 369 - The sunbeams are my shafts, with which I kill Deceit, that loves the night and fears the day; All men who do or even imagine ill Fly me, and from the glory of my ray Good minds and open actions take new might, Until diminished by the reign of night.
Pàgina xxxiii - the mothers weave for their bright son,' — the clouds which rise from the waters and surround the sun like a dark raiment. Herakles tries to tear it off; his fierce splendour breaks through the thickening gloom, but fiery mists embrace him, and are mingled with the parting rays of the sun, and the dying hero is seen through the scattered clouds of the sky, tearing his own body to pieces, till at last his bright form is consumed in a general conflagration...
Pàgina 346 - The heroic maid Kyrene, who lived in Thessaly, is loved by Apollo and carried off to Libya'; while in modern language we should say, — 'The town of Kyrene, in Thessaly, sent a colony to Libya, under the auspices of Apollo.
Pàgina 63 - GEORGE W. COX (rewritten). DECEIVED by the evil advice of Ate, the mischief-maker of the gods, Jupiter said to Juno his queen, "This day a child shall be born of the race of Perseus, who shall be the mightiest of all on earth." He meant his son Hercules ; but Juno had a crafty trick in her mind to lay a heavy curse on that son, whom naturally she hated for his being such. She asked Jupiter if what he had just said should surely be so, and he gave the nod which meant the vow that could not be recalled...
Pàgina 26 - Demeter, and everyone loved them both ; for Demeter was good and kind to all, and no one could be more gentle and merry than Persephone. She and her companions were gathering flowers from the field, to make crowns for their long flowing hair. They had...
Pàgina 221 - ... far away, till, deep down in a glen where the sun shed but half its light, they saw men with fair maidens lying on the soft grass under the shade of the pleasant palm-trees. Before them was spread a banquet of rich and rosy fruit, and some were eating and others lay asleep. Then the men of Odysseus went up to them, and sat down by their side, for they feared them not, as men are wont to fear the people of a strange land. They asked not their name, for they remembered not the bidding of Odysseus...
Pàgina 371 - .Ribhu " or " Arbhu," which, though it is best known as the name of the three .Ribhus, was used in the Veda as an epithet of Indra, and a name of the sun.
Pàgina 76 - But I6 knew not that, while she spake, one heard her who had suffered even harder things from Zeus. Far above her head, towards the desolate crags of Caucasus, the wild eagle soared shrieking in the sky ; and the vulture hovered near, as though waiting close to some dying man till death should leave him for its prey. Dark snow-clouds brooded heavily on the mountain, the icy wind crept lazily through the frozen air ; and I6 thought that the hour of her death was come.
Pàgina viii - ... before the dawn of history. Yet that state of things was as real as the time in which we live. They who spoke the language of these early tales were men and women with joys and sorrows and interests here and hereafter not unlike our own.
Pàgina 194 - Paris spoke not more. The coldness of death passed over him as CEnone looked down upon his face and thought of the days when they lived and loved amid the dells of Ida. Long time she knelt by his side, until the stars looked forth in the sky. Then CEnone said, "O Eris, well hast thou worked thy will, and well hath Aphrodite done thy bidding. O Paris, we have loved and suffered, but I never did thee wrong, and now I follow thee to the dark land of Hades.