Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Том 151851 |
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... carry off the prize for sacred song . The imagination of the festivals . poet might soar aloft , might amplify acknowledged incident , might embellish legend which his memory had stored up in some remote region of his native land ...
... carry off the prize for sacred song . The imagination of the festivals . poet might soar aloft , might amplify acknowledged incident , might embellish legend which his memory had stored up in some remote region of his native land ...
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... carried on a waggon , followed by women The fifth day . holding small mystic cases . The fifth , or torch - day ... carrying the statue of Iakchus , the son of Demeter . On the brows of the statue rested a garland of myrtle ; a Mysteries ...
... carried on a waggon , followed by women The fifth day . holding small mystic cases . The fifth , or torch - day ... carrying the statue of Iakchus , the son of Demeter . On the brows of the statue rested a garland of myrtle ; a Mysteries ...
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... carried after death ; their eyes were dazzled with the most beautiful and vivid colours , and their ears charmed with the most melodious sounds , both rendered more enchanting by their contrast with those fearful and ghastly objects ...
... carried after death ; their eyes were dazzled with the most beautiful and vivid colours , and their ears charmed with the most melodious sounds , both rendered more enchanting by their contrast with those fearful and ghastly objects ...
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... carry out the illusion of the legend attached to it . Between the Enean hills and the shore of the Saronic Gulf rose the stately temple of Poseidon ; while a sta- dium and theatre of white marble , deep groves of pine trees , and a long ...
... carry out the illusion of the legend attached to it . Between the Enean hills and the shore of the Saronic Gulf rose the stately temple of Poseidon ; while a sta- dium and theatre of white marble , deep groves of pine trees , and a long ...
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... carrying Ophethes , the child of Eurydice . Hastening to point out to these chiefs the nearest spring , she left the child in a meadow . On the return of the Seven , they saw the infant lying dead , having been slain by a dragon . This ...
... carrying Ophethes , the child of Eurydice . Hastening to point out to these chiefs the nearest spring , she left the child in a meadow . On the return of the Seven , they saw the infant lying dead , having been slain by a dragon . This ...
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Стр. 155 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Стр. 477 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Стр. 445 - For those purposes they think some part of the wealth of the country is as usefully employed, as it can be in fomenting the luxury of individuals. It is the public ornament. It is the public consolation. It nourishes the public hope. The poorest man finds his own importance and dignity in it...
Стр. 375 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams.
Стр. 116 - De'iphobus in the under-world — if we are asked whether there was not really some such historical Trojan war as this, our answer must be, that as the possibility of it cannot be denied, so neither can the reality of it be affirmed.
Стр. 113 - Then shalt thou mourn the' affront thy madness gave, Forced to deplore, when impotent to save : Then rage in bitterness of soul, to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe.?
Стр. 148 - Spartan children were not in that manner, under tutors purchased or hired with money, nor were the parents at liberty to educate them as they pleased : but as soon as they were seven years old, Lycurgus ordered them to be enrolled in companies, where they were all kept under the same order and discipline, and had their exercises and recreations in common.
Стр. 365 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Стр. 375 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Стр. 34 - The sire of gods and all the ethereal train, On the warm limits of the farthest main, Now mix with mortals, nor disdain to grace The feasts of Ethiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers indulge the genial rite, Returning with the twelfth revolving light. Then will I mount the brazen dome, and move 560 The high tribunal of immortal Jove.