The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855).Charles Mills Gayley |
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... dark ages . Myths , more or less like these , may be found in the literatures of nearly all nations ; many are in the memories and mouths of savage races at this time existent . But the stories here narrated are no longer believed by ...
... dark ages . Myths , more or less like these , may be found in the literatures of nearly all nations ; many are in the memories and mouths of savage races at this time existent . But the stories here narrated are no longer believed by ...
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... darkness , but the Skalds of Iceland con- tinued to play a most important part in the literary development 1 Cleasby and Vigfusson's Icelandic - English Dictionary . See also Commen- tary . of the north as late as the end of the 30 ...
... darkness , but the Skalds of Iceland con- tinued to play a most important part in the literary development 1 Cleasby and Vigfusson's Icelandic - English Dictionary . See also Commen- tary . of the north as late as the end of the 30 ...
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... Darkness were the prime elements of Nature , and from them sprang Light . Still a third theory , attributed to Orpheus , asserts that Time was in the be- ginning , but had himself no beginning ; that from him proceeded Chaos , a yawning ...
... Darkness were the prime elements of Nature , and from them sprang Light . Still a third theory , attributed to Orpheus , asserts that Time was in the be- ginning , but had himself no beginning ; that from him proceeded Chaos , a yawning ...
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... darkness that is under Earth , remote regions of sunset . - and Night , dwelling in the From Mother Earth proceeded first the starry vault of Heaven , durable as brass or iron , where the gods were to take up their abode . Earth brought ...
... darkness that is under Earth , remote regions of sunset . - and Night , dwelling in the From Mother Earth proceeded first the starry vault of Heaven , durable as brass or iron , where the gods were to take up their abode . Earth brought ...
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... dark , unseen , mysterious , where the spirits of the dead should dwell , and of Tartarus , wherein were held the fallen Titans . For himself Jupiter retained Earth and the Heaven , into whose broad and sunny regions towered Olympus ...
... dark , unseen , mysterious , where the spirits of the dead should dwell , and of Tartarus , wherein were held the fallen Titans . For himself Jupiter retained Earth and the Heaven , into whose broad and sunny regions towered Olympus ...
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