The Classic Myths in English Literature: Based Chiefly on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable". (1855).Charles Mills Gayley |
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... tions of ancient art and literature , and the uniform and ordered evolution of the æsthetic sense . Beside enriching us with heirlooms of fiction , and pointing us to the sources of imaginative joy from which the forefathers of Hellenic ...
... tions of ancient art and literature , and the uniform and ordered evolution of the æsthetic sense . Beside enriching us with heirlooms of fiction , and pointing us to the sources of imaginative joy from which the forefathers of Hellenic ...
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... tions like our own , there is nothing in the history of reasonable myths to baffle our understanding . For , at the present time , not only children and simple - minded men , like sailors or moun- taineers , but cultivated men of ...
... tions like our own , there is nothing in the history of reasonable myths to baffle our understanding . For , at the present time , not only children and simple - minded men , like sailors or moun- taineers , but cultivated men of ...
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... tions . We do not believe . But their belief is easier to comprehend when we remember that the myths of savages clustered about beings whom they worshipped . Among primitive nations the sense of awe in the presence of magnificent ...
... tions . We do not believe . But their belief is easier to comprehend when we remember that the myths of savages clustered about beings whom they worshipped . Among primitive nations the sense of awe in the presence of magnificent ...
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... tions . They may , however , be classified according to the theory of civilization that they assume . According to the Theory of Deterioration , or Human Depravity , man , although he had in the beginning knowledge of common facts ...
... tions . They may , however , be classified according to the theory of civilization that they assume . According to the Theory of Deterioration , or Human Depravity , man , although he had in the beginning knowledge of common facts ...
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... tions narrows the problem , but does not solve it . The existence of the same story in unrelated nationalities remains a perplexing fact , toward the explanation of which the theories of " borrow- ing " and of " similar historic ...
... tions narrows the problem , but does not solve it . The existence of the same story in unrelated nationalities remains a perplexing fact , toward the explanation of which the theories of " borrow- ing " and of " similar historic ...
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Common terms and phrases
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