The Student's Mythology: A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian ... Mythologies ...A.C. Armstrong & son, 1888 |
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According afterwards altar ancient animal Apollo Athens Aztecs Baal Bacchus Baldur beautiful believed birds body Buddha Cæsar called cast celebrated Ceres CHAPTER chariot Chimæra chorus Confucius crowned Dæd'alus daughter death deity Delphi Diana divinities Druids earth emblem Ene'as erected fable famous fate father festival fire fountain Gaul goddess gods golden Greece Greeks hand head heaven Hell Hercules hero honor horse human island Isthmian games Italy Jason Julius Cæsar Juno Jupiter king Lao-tze Loki maidens married Meleager Melicertes Mercury Minerva monster Mount Muses Mycenae mythology Neptune nymph obliged Odin offered oracle Orestes Ovid passed Penel'ope Perseus Peruvians Phorcus Pluto poet Priam priests prince punishment Ques race religion represented rites Roman Rome sacred sacrifice Saturn sent serpent ship shore sibyl solemn souls statue stone supposed temple theatre Thebes Theseus tion Trojan Trophonius Troy Ulys'ses Vedas Venus verses victory Vulcan worshipped Zoroaster
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Page 215 - Of Solomon he led by fraud to build His temple right against the temple of God, On that opprobrious hill, and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd, the type of hell.
Page 217 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 215 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Page 19 - The Golden Age was first; when man, yet new, No rule but uncorrupted reason knew ; And, with a native bent, did good pursue. Unforced by punishment, unawed by fear, His words were simple, and his soul sincere. Needless was written law, where none opprestj The law of man was written in his breast* No suppliant crowds before the judge appeared; ^ No court erected yet, nor cause was heard; > But all was safe, for conscience was their guard.
Page 190 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 19 - Ere yet the pine descended to the seas : Ere sails were spread, new oceans to explore, And happy mortals, unconcerned for more, Confined their wishes to their native shore. No walls were yet; nor fence, nor moat, nor mound, Nor drum was heard, nor trumpet's angry sound; Nor swords were forged ; but void of care and crime. The soft creation slept away their time.
Page 58 - Aurora ; at length victory declared for Achilles, Memnon fell, and the Trojans fled in dismay. Aurora, who from her station in the sky had...
Page 248 - ... stern and forbidding countenance. The wolf Fenris gave the gods a great deal of trouble before they succeeded in chaining him. He broke the strongest fetters as if they were made of cobwebs. Finally the gods sent a messenger to the mountain spirits, who made for them the chain called Gleipnir. It is fashioned of six things, viz., the noise made by the footfall of a cat, the beards of women, the roots of stones, the breath of fishes, the nerves (sensibilities) of bears, and the spittle of birds.
Page 20 - Digg'd from her entrails first the precious ore ; Which next to hell the prudent gods had laid ; And that alluring ill to sight display'd ; Thus cursed steel, and more accursed gold, Gave mischief birth, and made that mischief bold : And double death did wretched man invade, By steel assaulted, and by gold betray'd.
Page 132 - Phineus when Neptune drowned the kingdom and sent a sea monster to ravage the country, because Cassiope had boasted that she was fairer than Juno and the Nereides. The oracle of Jupiter Ammon was consulted, but nothing could stop the resentment of Neptune except the exposure of Andromeda to the sea monster. She was accordingly tied to a rock, but at the moment the monster was about to devour her, Perseus, returning from the conquest of the Gorgons, saw her...