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Page 469
... whole stream of Ancient Mythology . With TAURUS , therefore , I propose to begin my investigation . Most of the conquests of animals ascribed to heroes belong to Hercules , under other names , as Jason , Theseus , Cadmus , Per- seus ...
... whole stream of Ancient Mythology . With TAURUS , therefore , I propose to begin my investigation . Most of the conquests of animals ascribed to heroes belong to Hercules , under other names , as Jason , Theseus , Cadmus , Per- seus ...
Page 471
... whole earth in a state of Paradise , as by the wine of Adam to be then produced , was meant original prosperity ; for grapes and prosperity are synonymous in Hebrew . This rab- binical fable is very singular , inasmuch as Osiris Apis ...
... whole earth in a state of Paradise , as by the wine of Adam to be then produced , was meant original prosperity ; for grapes and prosperity are synonymous in Hebrew . This rab- binical fable is very singular , inasmuch as Osiris Apis ...
Page 474
... whole of these two starry habitations . Next we have the Bowman rising from the deca- pitated Taurus , and destroying the power of Evil as Scorpio . The strange metaphor , the " arms of the hands , " is doubtless taken from the front ...
... whole of these two starry habitations . Next we have the Bowman rising from the deca- pitated Taurus , and destroying the power of Evil as Scorpio . The strange metaphor , the " arms of the hands , " is doubtless taken from the front ...
Page 481
... whole of your youth to it . Languages are only as it were the avenues that lead to the temple , where the sciences have their residence . Make divine and human laws subjects of your meditations : these sciences once acquired , apply ...
... whole of your youth to it . Languages are only as it were the avenues that lead to the temple , where the sciences have their residence . Make divine and human laws subjects of your meditations : these sciences once acquired , apply ...
Page 486
... whole frame wrapped , as it were , in the deepest rumination , ) conducted him past the angle behind whose extremity I was standing . There was a pale dignity in his features a grief , not to be expressed , which at once put to flight ...
... whole frame wrapped , as it were , in the deepest rumination , ) conducted him past the angle behind whose extremity I was standing . There was a pale dignity in his features a grief , not to be expressed , which at once put to flight ...
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Page 524 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 598 - Tis morn ; but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye Brave Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Wave, Munich ! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry ! Few, few shall part, where many meet ! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 474 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Page 597 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.
Page 585 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt.
Page 541 - What ages and what lights are requisite for THIS attainment! This intelligence involves the very attributes of Divinity, while a God is denied. For unless this man is omnipresent, unless he is at this moment in every place in the universe, he cannot know but there may be in some place manifestations of a Deity by which even he would be overpowered.
Page 126 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues •*> With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, — till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 171 - Quakers, who suffer their women to preach and pray. having soared out of his own reach and sight, not well perceiving how near the frontiers of height and depth border upon each other, with the same course and wing, he falls down plum into the lowest bottom of things...
Page 597 - Far flashed the red artillery. But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden's hills of stained snow, And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. 'Tis morn ; but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy.
Page 473 - The archers have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob.