The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855).Charles Mills Gayley |
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... Antique , Paris , 1867 . ] ....... 326 331 338 109. Charon receiving a passenger and his fare . [ Relief : Sepolcri . ] .. 346 IIO . Amazon . [ Guhl & Koner . ] . 356 LIST OF MAPS . NO . 1. GREECE AND THE xxvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
... Antique , Paris , 1867 . ] ....... 326 331 338 109. Charon receiving a passenger and his fare . [ Relief : Sepolcri . ] .. 346 IIO . Amazon . [ Guhl & Koner . ] . 356 LIST OF MAPS . NO . 1. GREECE AND THE xxvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .
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... received from God an original revelation of pure religious ideas , and that , with the systematic and continued perversion of the moral sense , this knowledge of truth , morality , and spiritual religion fell into corruption . So in ...
... received from God an original revelation of pure religious ideas , and that , with the systematic and continued perversion of the moral sense , this knowledge of truth , morality , and spiritual religion fell into corruption . So in ...
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... received their freest and perhaps most ideal treatment at the hands of the greatest lyric poet of Greece , Pindar ( 522 B.C. ) . In his hymns and songs of praise to gods and in his odes com- posed for the victors in the national ...
... received their freest and perhaps most ideal treatment at the hands of the greatest lyric poet of Greece , Pindar ( 522 B.C. ) . In his hymns and songs of praise to gods and in his odes com- posed for the victors in the national ...
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... received from earlier writers , he has here fused into a literary epic . But what the Æneid lacks of epic simplicity , it makes up in patriotic spirit , in lofty moral and civic ideals , in correctness of taste , and in stylistic form ...
... received from earlier writers , he has here fused into a literary epic . But what the Æneid lacks of epic simplicity , it makes up in patriotic spirit , in lofty moral and civic ideals , in correctness of taste , and in stylistic form ...
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... received opinion was that men grew out of trees and stones , or were produced by the rivers or the sea . Some said that men and gods were both derived from Mother Earth , hence both autoctho- nous ; and some , indeed , claimed an ...
... received opinion was that men grew out of trees and stones , or were produced by the rivers or the sea . Some said that men and gods were both derived from Mother Earth , hence both autoctho- nous ; and some , indeed , claimed an ...
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