Philothea: A Grecian RomanceC.S. Francis, 1848 - 290 páginas |
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affectionate agoras Alcibi Alcibiades altar Anaxagoras answered Artaphernes asked Aspasia Athenian Athens attendants beautiful beloved bestowed blessed breath chariot Chrysippus Clinias couch countenance Cynosarges daughter deemed divine earnestly earth Eudora exclaimed expression eyes farewell father fear feelings flowers Fountain garden garlands gazed gentle Geta gift gods gold golden graceful Grecian guests hand happy head hear heard heart Hermippus Hipparete honour Hylax images innocence inquired Ionia ivory king light listened looked lyre maiden marble marriage Milza mind Mithras mortals never obolus Pallas Pandanus Paralus passed perceived Pericles Persian Phidias Philemon Philo philosopher Philothea Phoebus Piræus placed Plato presence prince Proclus Prytaneum rejoined remained replied Philothea robe sacred seemed silent sing slaves sleep smile soon soul sound speak spirit spoke statue stood tears temple thea thee thou thought Tithonus told tone truth veil voice wife wine wish young Zeus
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Página 43 - Bacchus' shrine ! For Death may come, with brow unpleasant, May come, when least we wish him present, And beckon to the sable shore, And grimly bid us — drink no more ! ODE IX.
Página 42 - To-day I'll haste to quaff my wine, As if to-morrow ne'er should shine ; But if to-morrow comes, why then — I'll haste to quaff my wine again. And thus, while all our days are bright, Nor time has dimmed their bloomy light, Let us the festal hours beguile With mantling cup and cordial smile ; And shed from every bowl of wine The richest drop on Bacchus...
Página 3 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain. Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason!
Página 260 - Oromasdes be praised, that I am once more permitted to hear that welcome sound ! No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word — father. Zoroaster tells us that children are a bridge joining this earth to a heavenly paradise, filled with fresh springs and blooming gardens. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father ! But, my daughter, why is it that the commands of Phidias would have made you unhappy?
Página 48 - She looked at Pericles, and saw that he again cautioned her, by raising the rose toward his face, as if inhaling its fragrance. There was a brief pause, which Anaxagoras interrupted, by saying, "The wise can never reverence images merely as images. There is a mystical meaning in the Athenian manner of supplicating the gods with garlands on their heads, and bearing in their hands boughs of olive twined with wool. Pallas, at whose birth we are told gold rained upon the earth, was unquestionably a personification...
Página 50 - Anaxagoras said wisely, that material forms lead the contemplative mind to the worship of ideal good, which is in its nature immortal and divine. Homer tells us, that the golden chain resting upon Olympus reaches even to the earth. Here we see but a few of the last links, and those imperfectly. We are like men in a subterranean cave, so chained that they can look only forward to the entrance. Far above and behind us is a glowing fire ; and beautiful beings, of every form, are moving between the light...
Página 7 - PREFACE. THIS volume is purely romance ; and most readers will consider it romance of the wildest kind. A few kindred spirits, prone to people space "with life and mystical predominance," will perceive a light within the Grecian Temple. For such I have written it. To minds of different mould, who may think an apology necessary for what they will deem so utterly useless, I have nothing better to offer than the simple fact that I found delight in doing it. PHILOTHEA. CHAPTER I. HERE let us seek Athene's...
Página 48 - ... with garlands on their heads, and bearing in their hands boughs of olive twined with wool. Pallas, at whose birth we are told gold rained upon the earth, was unquestionably a personification of wisdom. It is not to be supposed that the philosophers of our country consider the sun itself as anything more than a huge ball of fire ; but the sight of that glorious orb leads the contemplative soul to the belief in one Pure Intelligence, one Universal Mind, which in manifesting itself produces order...
Página 26 - Lady," replied the gentle recluse, "beauty is given to remind us that the soul should be kept as fair and perfect in its proportions, as the temple in which it dwells." "You are above ordinary women," said Aspasia; " for you hear me allude to your beauty without affecting to contradict me, and apparently without pleasure.
Página 46 - ... council. These circumstances have led me to suppose that you worship them as mere forms. The Persian Magi do indeed prostrate themselves before the rising Sun ; but they do it in the name of Oromasdes, the universal Principle of Good, of whom that great luminary is the visible symbol. In our solemn processions, the chariot sacred to Oromasdes precedes the horse dedicated to Mithras ; and there is deep meaning in the arrangement. The Sun and the Zodiac, the Balance and the Rule, are but emblems...