The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855) : Accompanied by an Interpretative and Illustrative Commentary |
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... divine , a moral sense striving through humanized nature and spiritualized man , through pantheism and monotheism to the Spirit in whom we live and move and have our being , — who lives and moves through all . 2. The benefits accruing ...
... divine , a moral sense striving through humanized nature and spiritualized man , through pantheism and monotheism to the Spirit in whom we live and move and have our being , — who lives and moves through all . 2. The benefits accruing ...
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... divine beings , adventures of heroes in which magical and ghostly agencies play a part , and where animals and inanimate nature don the attributes of men and gods . Many of these myths treat of divinities once worshipped by the Greeks ...
... divine beings , adventures of heroes in which magical and ghostly agencies play a part , and where animals and inanimate nature don the attributes of men and gods . Many of these myths treat of divinities once worshipped by the Greeks ...
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... divine or heroic adventure and character , blood and breath of probability and imagination . In historic myths the dependence of gods , heroes , and events upon the stern necessity of an overruling power , of fate or providence , is ...
... divine or heroic adventure and character , blood and breath of probability and imagination . In historic myths the dependence of gods , heroes , and events upon the stern necessity of an overruling power , of fate or providence , is ...
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... divine name , " throws light on the legend of the bearer of the name and on its origin and first home . " 1 " 2 But unfortunately there is very often no agreement among schol- ars about the original meaning of the names of mythical ...
... divine name , " throws light on the legend of the bearer of the name and on its origin and first home . " 1 " 2 But unfortunately there is very often no agreement among schol- ars about the original meaning of the names of mythical ...
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... divine and heroic narratives which they could not otherwise justify , and of whose existence they were ashamed . We find , moreover , in some cases a great variety of symbolic explanations of the same myth , one with as great claim to ...
... divine and heroic narratives which they could not otherwise justify , and of whose existence they were ashamed . We find , moreover , in some cases a great variety of symbolic explanations of the same myth , one with as great claim to ...
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