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... die of his depar- ture, for my newly acquired knowledge of Virgil and the Greek declensions will not be of use to Edward these three years. He is onl... ... only just conquering “Lapis, lapidis.”’ ‘But you can go on with Latin and Greek, alone, as you did with German, cannot you?’ said Anne. ‘I do sometim... ...rigin is not nearly so sublime as you would make it out. Keightley’s Fairy Mythology says he is only our old friend Robin Good- fellow, Milton’s lubbe...

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... The marble inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances. An old Greek sculp- tor, no doubt, found his models in the open sunshine, and amon... ...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ... ...churchmen, their great patrons, suggested most of their themes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pi... ...d had a slightly corroded surface, but at once impressed the sculptor as a Greek production, and wonderfully delicate and beauti- ful. The head was go...

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...rties” spontaneous and joyously ab- surd. The beasts in the Milford hearth-mythology were not the obscene Night Animals who jump out of closets 10 Ma... ...arn artistic. Probably the lum- ber-yard isn’t as scrumptious as all these Greek temples. But go to it! Make us change!” “I would like to. Some day!” ... ...king to pieces, 37 Sinclair Lewis then recovered and rattled away. In the Greek candy- store was the whine of a peanut-roaster, and the oily smell of... ...ntlemen that one of them had become an Omaha bartender, one a professor of Greek, and one, Cyrus N. Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, t... ...s over every love-scene at the Rosebud Movie Palace. At the counter of the Greek Confectionery Parlor, while they ate dreadful messes of decayed banan... ...shing about that. He likes to have people think he keeps up his French and Greek and Lord knows what all; and he’s always got an old Dago book lying a...

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...and then off with Julia, exactly like two Gods of the 107 George Meredith Mythology, Apollo and Mercury. ‘I often used to think they had the jolliest... ...’s!’ said Temple. The firemen were on the roofs of the houses, handsome as Greek heroes, and it really did look as if they were engaged in slaying an ... ...dig- nity reflect on the dreadful hiatus in our studies. ‘Is that Latin or Greek?’ he asked. I would not reply to the cold-blooded question. He said t... ...ly to the cold-blooded question. He said the New T estament was written in Greek, he knew, and happy were those who could read it in the original. ‘We... ...ions. Temple said to him, ‘If the Archbishop of Canterbury were to tell me Greek and Latin authors are bad for me, I should listen to his re- marks, b... ...u may.’ ‘No, no, Captain Welsh,’ says Temple: ‘you must grind at Latin and Greek when you ‘re a chick, or you won’t ever mas- 127 George Meredith ter...

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...churchmen, their great patrons, suggested most of their themes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pi... ...d had a slightly corroded surface, but at once impressed the sculptor as a Greek production, and wonderfully delicate and beauti- ful. The head was go...

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...sed, and his hands scratched, he inflicted upon himself the further punishment of tearing out his hair by handfuls, as an offering to that goddess of ... ...orse torments than those of seclusion and separation? Did this brutal, blasphem- ing, drunken bully take revenge on his daughter, like the ruthless fa...

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... The marble inevitably loses its chastity under such circumstances. An old Greek sculp- tor, no doubt, found his models in the open sunshine, and amon... ...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ...

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...not been of Solomon’s extent of natural philosophy, and so full of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin that she could not follow it at all. After the blessing, t... ...represents the four elements personified by their goddesses, and Aurelia’s mythology, founded on Fenelon, was just sufficient to en- able her to recog... ...BE HOEBE HOEBE Her golden bow she bends, Her deadly arrows sending forth. —Greek Hymn (KEIGHTLEY). ON COMING IN FROM A WALK, Aurelia was surprised by ...

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...on Elspat MacTavish, or the Woman of the T ree, as they called her, as the Greeks considered those who were pursued by the Furies, and endured the men... ... propitiation, which some have thought has been derived from the Druidical mythology. It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasi...

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...eech have replaced the “heavenly angel” and Ossianic nomenclature; the old mythology of love is extinct, doomed to perish by modern dandyism. But for ... ... make dominoes out of his father’s bones, a Turk, a heathen, an old Jew, a Greek; it would be a difficult matter to rob him, for he puts all his coin ...

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... the walls decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Francois I., Greek and Roman statues clustered at the angles, and cabinets with gems and... ... that no one has yet told you of your good mien? Or do they not appreciate Greek noses and blue eyes in the land of fat Englishmen? How have you ever ... ...ly, completing, as Henry said, the 99 The Chaplet of Pearls galimatias of mythology, a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage, and disclosed the... ...- ness, ‘is likely to be better known to other persons than this wandering Greek boy.’ Here Philip’s step was heard returning hastily. He was pale, an... ...ld, and under the dominion of a very learned tutor, who taught them Latin, Greek and Hebrew, alternately with an equally precise, stiff old esquire, w...

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...arding every- thing but the tyranny of time. Their names, the names of all mythology, became the household words of a coast that had never been ruled ... ...chooner was anchored opposite the New Custom House, with its sham air of a Greek temple, flatroofed, with a colonnade, Captain Fidanza went pulling hi...

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...en to a member under L20, and is respected enormously—like the lady of the Mythology, who was an intolerable Tartar of virtue, because her price was n... ...t. Both the men laughed at the constant employment she gave them among the Greek islands in furnishing her severely accurate accounts of sea-fights an...

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...Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is a recording of the ...

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...e: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, social, and religious life, seems to be called for here in order that the fol...

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... English speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A bri... ...re has been taken in rendering these finely shaded verbs. A glance at the mythology of this interesting people will place the import of this remark i... ..., but at the same time were connected with them. The basic idea in Finnish mythology seems to lie in this: that all objects in nature are governed by ... ... evil on the mountains, and is therefore termed, “The Thunderer,” like the Greek Zeus, and his abode is called, “The Thunder Home.” Ukko is often repr... ... tain, by the wicked hostess of the dismal Sariola, he, like Atlas in the mythology of Greece, relinquishes the support of the heavens, thunders alon... ...s an object in nature. Wisdom and law, virtue and justice, find in Finnish mythology no protector among the gods, who trouble themselves only about th... ...n our youth learned to call beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer [Achilles?]; but if the poet may tak... ... “darksome Laplanders”, just as the Iliad relates the contests between the Greeks and the Trojans. Castren is of the opinion that the enmity be tween... ... an infant; often too the unexpected is introduced after the manner of the Greek dramas, by a young child, or an old man. The whole poem is replete wi...

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.............. 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR .................................................................

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................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ............................................................ ...ER O MER O MER O MER O MERCUR CUR CUR CUR CURY Y Y Y Y Translated from the Greek of Homer Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. This al... ...—T 1.—T 1.—TO STELL O STELL O STELL O STELL O STELLA. A. A. A. A. From the Greek of Plato. Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair l... ... HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. From the Greek of Plato. Kissing Helena, together With my kiss, my soul beside it Ca... ... IRIT OF PL IRIT OF PL IRIT OF PLA A A A AT T T T TO. O. O. O. O. From the Greek. Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb? To what sublime and star-yp... ...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...

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... publication) has gone to Styx. This does not appear to be the conventional Hell described by Dante in The Inferno, but rather the Hades described in Greek myth (both of which had Styxes): a universal collecting pot for dead souls, regardless of their deeds in life. The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx (in The Inferno, he was the ferryman of the river Acheron)...

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...uggle of Athens and Persia, perhaps in some degree also of the wars of the Greeks and Carthaginians, in the same way that the Persian is prefig- ured ... ...roduced the Egyptian priests to give verisi- militude to his story. To the Greek such a tale, like that of the earth-born men, would have seemed perfe... ...orn men, would have seemed perfectly accor- dant with the character of his mythology, and not more marvellous than the wonders of the East narrated by... ...owers first of all, giving to Athens the precedence; the various tribes of Greeks and barbarians who took part in the war will be dealt with as they s... ...l speak to you of their adversaries, but first I ought to explain that the Greek names were given to Solon in an Egyptian form, and he enquired their ... ...en, as in the Old Epic poetry: (4) the ingenious reason as- signed for the Greek names occurring in the Egyptian tale: (5) the remark that the armed s... ...where, ingeniously gives the impression that he is telling the truth which mythology had corrupted. The world, like a child, has readily, and for the ...

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...re we venture to receive it as offered in good faith and loyalty. Even the Greeks are nearly in the same [Greek text], when they wish to speak of reli... ...erious praise. Some circuitous form, commending the correctness of a man, [Greek text], in respect of divine things, becomes requisite; for all the di... ...ing the religious tem- per, are preoccupied by a taint of scorn. The word [Greek text], means pious,—not as regards the gods, but as regards the dead;... ..., means pious,—not as regards the gods, but as regards the dead; and even [Greek text], though not used sneeringly, is a world short of our word ‘reli... ...w as to be untranslat- able* into either of the classical languages; and, [Greek text], A system of mysteries; as, for instance, the mystery of the T ... ...e case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law and mythological records,) surviv... ...lities must have worked an extensive conformity to their own standard. The mythology sanctioned by the ritual of public worship, the features of moral... ...rship, the features of moral nature in the gods dis- tributed through that mythology, and sometimes commemo- rated by gleams in that ritual, domineere...