...An enclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology based on Project Gutenberg's edition of Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M.Berens with illustrations from Wikimedia Commons. ...

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...Pope whom the debate runs high, till they are reconciled by the address of Vulcan. The time of two-and-twenty days is taken up in this book: nine duri... ...; A reverent horror silenced all the sky. The feast disturb’d, with sorrow Vulcan saw His mother menaced, and the gods in awe; Peace at his heart, and... ...nderer stands appeased; The gracious power is willing to be pleased.” Thus Vulcan spoke: and rising with a bound, The double bowl with sparkling necta... ...est he fill’d; and in his turn, Each to his lips applied the nectar’d urn, Vulcan with awkward grace his office plies, And unextinguish’d laughter sha... ...ight: Then to their starry domes the gods depart, The shining monuments of Vulcan’s art: Jove on his couch reclined his awful head, And Juno slumber’d... ...ce.”—Dryden’s Virgil, ii. 479. 485 Pope 205 The destinies ordain.—“In the mythology, also, of the Iliad, purely Pagan as it is, we discover one impor... ...his legend is one of the most pregnant and characteris- tic in the Grecian Mythology; it explains, according to the religious ideas familiar to the ol...

... chisel, the loom, and 6 The Girl with the Golden Eyes have been promptly vulcanized. Is not Vulcan, with his hid- eousness and his strength, the emb... ...le opium one can make you sleep. We 36 The Girl with the Golden Eyes know mythology and the fable of Argus.” Before entering the carriage, the golden...

...ed form for Widia, the Anglo Saxon name of the son of Weland, the Teutonic Vulcan, a famous maker of magic weapons in romance, with whom his son might... ..., as I have already shown he might easily have done ( Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance , Boston, 1903, pp. 26 28), or, as Professor... ...ussed the various versions of Arthur’s stay in Avalon in Studies in Fairy Mythology , chapter III. On Avalon, see id., p. 40, note 2. On the early b...

...represents the four elements personified by their goddesses, and Aurelia’s mythology, founded on Fenelon, was just sufficient to en- able her to recog... ... on Fenelon, was just sufficient to en- able her to recognise the forge of Vulcan and the car [chariot—D.L.] of Venus. Then she looked at the work pre...

...rs, in selecting as their subject any portion of their national history or mythology, employed in their treatment of it a certain arbitrary discretion... ...ea, and sport therein; For round the walls are hung dread engines, such As Vulcan never wrought for Jove to clutch Ixion or the Titan:—or the quick Wi... ...ace of the level flame. 31. 31. 31. 31. 31. She had a boat, which some say Vulcan wrought For Venus, as the chariot of her star; ... ...nambulism; Round the red anvils you might see them stand Like Cyclopses in Vulcan’s sooty abysm, Beating their swords to ploughshares;—in a band ...

... brazen four-horse chariot from Camerium, which he placed in the temple of Vulcan, setting on it his own statue, with a figure of Victory crowning him... ... that some fancied, the senators, having fallen upon him ill the temple of Vulcan, cut his body into pieces, and took each a part away in his bosom; o... ... in his bosom; others think his disappearance was neither in the temple of Vulcan, nor with the senators only by, but that, it 60 V olume One came to... ...one day, and besides erected a brazen statue to his honor in the temple of Vulcan, as a requital for the lameness caused by his wound. But Porsenna la... ... at a single moment upon us, really outdoes the hun- dred-handed giants of mythology?” And, doubtless, the rest of the Syracusans were but the body of... ... discerning future events by dim and uncertain intima- tions. This was the mythology of the wisest of the Tuscan sages, who were thought to possess a ... ...in his land, seemed to restore to the world that community of goods, which mythology says existed in the reign of Saturn. Those who object to him that...

..., in the em- braces of dyspepsia, compiled his ponderous work on the Fairy Mythology of Europe. He had little to do with the Hope of Raynham beyond wh... ...ter accentuation and satiric sing-song tone, deliberately read: “VULCAN v. MARS. “The Attorney-General, assisted by Mr. Ripton Thomp- son, a... ...ional exist- ence has brought poor Hippias. “No wonder. Ten years of Fairy Mythology! Could anyone hope to sleep in peace after that? As to your diges... ...n?—Mr. Blaize intends her for his son a junction that every lover of fairy mythology must desire to see consummated. Young T om is heir to all the agr...

... the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and i... ...rils (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know), it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy... ...as a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what fac... ...n man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it i... ...e which had seen its best days was a great haul for me. I sacrificed it to Vulcan, for it was past serving the god Terminus. How much more interesting... ... wood; ground famous for the pranks of a demon not distinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New England...

...of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology! — I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling an... ...strils, (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I don’t know,) it seems as if the earth had got a race now wort... ... has a genius of unequalled fertility, and her memory runs back farther than mythology, and she can tell me the original of every fable, and on what f... ...ty in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Ancient poetry and mythology suggest, at least, that husbandry was once a sacred art; but it... ...ence which had seen its best days was a great haul for me. I sacrificed it to Vulcan, for it was past serving the god Terminus. How much more interesti... ... wood; ground famous for the pranks of a demon not dis tinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a prominent and astounding part in our New Engla...

... knows why, to swim there! I could understand better, for this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea monsters, —... ...ndeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mere history; but put to a celestial, is mythology always. But there is the rough voice of Uncle George, who comma... ...t reminded me of the creations of the old epic and dramatic poets, of Atlas, Vulcan, the Cyclops, and Prometheus. Such was Caucasus and the rock where... ...iron for this shop. This reminded me how primitive and honorable a trade was Vulcan’s. I do not hear that there was any carpenter or tailor among the ... ...n verse with the spirit of the tree he fells, he cannot read the poetry and mythology which retire as he advances. He ignorantly erases mythological ...

...e fierce flame was breathed around: _145 And whilst the might of glorious Vulcan thus Wrapped the great pile with glare and roaring sound, Hermes dra... ...shall perceive the noise. UL UL UL UL ULYSSES: YSSES: YSSES: YSSES: YSSES: Vulcan, Aetnean king! burn out with fire The shining eye of this thy neighb... ...pendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this nature has ta... ... present argument which is as- sumed. The language spoken, however, by the mythology of nearly all religions seems to prove that at some distant pe- r... ...ter the important truths were forgotten, which this portion of the ancient mythology was intended to transmit, the drift of the fable seems to be this...

... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ..., and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind. The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and... ...th His nest in my heart.… ON A SILVER CUP T urning the silver, Vulcan, make for me, Not indeed a panoply, For what are battles to me...

...de its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Eu- rope, (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic art... ...close- ness to the faith of later ages. Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology. He is the friend of man; stands be- tween the unjust “justice” o... ...f *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fab... ...ense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye. In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures, as... ...thologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures, as lameness to Vulcan, blindness to Cupid, and the like, —to signify exuberances. 198 Ess... ...nning, and too bad for blessing, it reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character. ‘I overheard Jove, one d...

...s to snatch at the moon with my teeth; but, as for the butter-firkin where Vulcanian deeds and evidences were sealed, the rumour was, and the report t... ...manubes, for so did they call the dart- ing hurls or slinging casts of the Vulcanian thunderbolts, did only appertain to her and to Jupiter her father... ... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains... ...r, by sea and land. By the belly of Saint Buff, quoth Panurge, should I be Vulcan, whom the poet blazons? Nay, I am neither a cripple, coiner of false... ...rd-mongers; in Neptune, towards dis- solute mariners and seafaring men, in Vulcan, towards loi- tering smiths and forgemen; and so throughout the rest... ...a, that, if you marry, you will surely be one of the horned brotherhood of Vulcan. Hereby may you perceive how much I do attribute to the wise foolery...

...; no Officer of Justice will serve a writ on one; his wig and gown are his Vulcan’s-panoply, his en- chanted cloak-of-darkness. The Parlement of Paris... ... it would not suffice. Abbe Lefevre, in the Vaults down below, is black as Vulcan, distributing that ‘five thousand weight of 127 Thomas Carlyle Powd... ...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ...