Jason's QuestLeach, Shewell & Sanborn, 1893 - 228 páginas |
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Æe'tes Alcim'ede Am'ycus ANAUROS APOLLONIUS RHODIUS Appendix Ar'go Ar'gus Argo ARGO NAVIS Argonauts arms Ath'amas beautiful bird Blue Dashers brother called Cen'taur Chalci'ope CHAPTER Charyb'dis Chi'ron Chrysomal'lus Cir'ce cloud Col'chian Col'chis cried cruel Dark Blue Dashers daughter Diodorus Siculus dragon dreadful e'tes e'tes's Ee'tes Eux'ine eyes father fell Glau'cus gods Golden Fleece Grecian Greece Greek grew hand He'lios He'ra heart Hel'le Her'acles heroes Hy'las I'no Iol'cos island Ja'son king knew land Lemnos looked Lyn'ceus magic maiden Mede'a mighty Mop'sus myths Neph'ele never Note oars Or'pheus oracle OVID palace Pe'leus Pe'lias Phi'neus Phrix'us PINDAR plough Polydeu'ces Posei'don priest roaring rocks ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL Scylla seemed sent ship shore Si'rens song stood story strange SYMPLEGADES Talking Oak tell thee THEOCRITUS Thes'saly thou thought Ti'phys told Translated waited wandered waters waves wicked tales wings words wrath youth Zeus καὶ
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Página 213 - Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Página 47 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say, 'I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark'....
Página 4 - Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty?
Página 73 - The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy! Still thou art blest, compar'd wi' me! The present only toucheth thee: But, och! I backward cast my e'e, On prospects drear! An' forward, tho' I canna see, I guess an
Página 214 - With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men...
Página 85 - Thracian raised his strain, While Argo saw her kindred trees Descend from Pelion to the main. Transported demi-gods stood round, And men grew heroes at the sound...
Página 115 - Nor the fleet arrow from the twanging bow, Sent with full force, could reach the depth below. Wide to the west the horrid gulf extends, And the dire passage down to hell descends. O fly the dreadful sight!
Página 218 - Pallas's command, And flings the future people from his hand. The clods grow warm, and crumble where he sows; And now the pointed spears advance in rows ; Now nodding plumes appear, and shining crests, Now the broad shoulders and the rising breasts; O'er all the field the breathing harvest swarms, A growing host, a crop of men and arms.
Página 35 - Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 165 - Coasting the Tyrrhene shore, as the winds listed, On Circe's island fell. (Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup Whoever tasted lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a grovelling swine...