The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology |
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Achilles Æneas ancient Apollo arms arrow Athens Bacchus beauty became behold body breast breath brother called cave Ceres chariot Chimæra Cyclops daughter dead death deity Diana divine earth eyes fate father fell fire flames fled Freyr friends gave giant goddess gods golden Grecian Greeks Gunlad hair hand head heard heaven Hector Hercules hero Hippomenes honor horse husband island Jove Juno Jupiter king land lived Loki looked maiden Medea Midgard Minerva monster mortal mother mountain mythology Neptune night nymph Odin oracle Ovid palace Patroclus Perseus Pluto poets Proserpine Psyche queen river rock Rome sacred Scylla seized sent serpent ship shore sight sister stone stood story sword temple Thebes thee Theseus Thor thou threw took tree Trojans Troy turned Ulysses Utgard-Loki Vatican Venus Villa Ludovisi virgin waves wife wind wings wound youth
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Page 239 - Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order * to a peopled kingdom : They have a king, and officers of sorts ; Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad, Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, Make boot upon the summer's...
Page 170 - Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog...
Page 214 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 74 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 295 - To dream and dream, like yonder amber light, Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height ; To hear each other's whisper'd speech ; Eating the Lotos day by day, To watch the crisping ripples on the beach, And tender curving lines of creamy spray ; To lend our hearts and spirits wholly To the influence of mild-minded melancholy...
Page 7 - Sin, there in power before, Once actual ; now in body, and to dwell Habitual habitant ; behind her, Death, Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet On...
Page 160 - Indian mount; or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth anddance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 452 - Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 377 - When winds are blowing strong. The traveller slaked His thirst from rill or gushing fount, and thanked The Naiad. Sunbeams, upon distant hills, Gliding apace, with shadows in their train, Might, with small help from fancy, be transformed Into fleet Oreads sporting visibly.
Page 240 - Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair; Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save! Listen, and appear to us, In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys...