Extracts from Ovid's Metamorphoses, with copious notes. By I. McBurneyR. Griffin and Company, 1854 - 18 Seiten |
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... golden hour . " Nabat- æaque regna , ' , " and the Nabathean realms ; of which the capital was Petra . This part of Arabia was called after Nebajoth , or Nabath son of Ishmael . 31. " Persis " -properly only a province - gave name to ...
... golden hour . " Nabat- æaque regna , ' , " and the Nabathean realms ; of which the capital was Petra . This part of Arabia was called after Nebajoth , or Nabath son of Ishmael . 31. " Persis " -properly only a province - gave name to ...
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... Golden Age , during which Innocence , Equity , and Virtue , held harmonious sway upon the earth , This evidently refers — though the narrative is disfigured — to the state of our first parents in primeval bliss , in Paradise . The Ages ...
... Golden Age , during which Innocence , Equity , and Virtue , held harmonious sway upon the earth , This evidently refers — though the narrative is disfigured — to the state of our first parents in primeval bliss , in Paradise . The Ages ...
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... Golden Age ceased . The manners of men had become somewhat degenerate , when Jupiter succeeded ; for which reason he shortened the long spring and divided the year into four seasons . This change subjected mankind to the vicissitudes of ...
... Golden Age ceased . The manners of men had become somewhat degenerate , when Jupiter succeeded ; for which reason he shortened the long spring and divided the year into four seasons . This change subjected mankind to the vicissitudes of ...
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... Golden Age , was the son of Colus and Terra ( heaven and earth ) . From his brother Titan he got the sovereignty of the world on condition that he would never rear any of his male children . For this end he devoured them all as soon as ...
... Golden Age , was the son of Colus and Terra ( heaven and earth ) . From his brother Titan he got the sovereignty of the world on condition that he would never rear any of his male children . For this end he devoured them all as soon as ...
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... Golden Age , she , like most of the other deities of heaven , resided on the earth ; but grieved at the iniquity of men , she ascended to the skies , and became " Virgo , " one of the signs of the zodiac . FABLE V. THE GIANTS . THE ...
... Golden Age , she , like most of the other deities of heaven , resided on the earth ; but grieved at the iniquity of men , she ascended to the skies , and became " Virgo , " one of the signs of the zodiac . FABLE V. THE GIANTS . THE ...
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Seite 1 - Sic erat instabilis tellus, innabilis unda, lucis egens ae'r : nulli sua forma manebat, obstabatque aliis aliud, quia corpore in uno frigida pugnabant calidis, humentia siccis, mollia cum duris, sine pondere habentia pondus.
Seite 45 - ... excute virgineo conceptas pectore flammas, si potes, infelix! si possem, sanior essem; sed trahit invitam nova vis, aliudque cupido, mens aliud suadet. video meliora proboque, deteriora sequor.
Seite 4 - Ipsa quoque immunis rastroque intacta nee ullis saucia vomeribus per se dabat omnia tellus...
Seite 29 - Phaethon, rutilos flamma populante capillos, volvitur in praeceps longoque per aera tractu fertur, ut interdum de caelo stella sereno etsi non cecidit, potuit cecidisse videri. quem procul a patria diverso maximus orbe excipit Eridanus, fumantiaque abluit ora.
Seite 76 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Seite 21 - Saeculaque et positae spatiis aequalibus Horae, Verque novum stabat cinctum florente corona ; Stabat nuda Aestas et spicea serta gerebat ; Stabat et Autumnus calcatis sordidus uvis, Et glacialis Hiems, canos hirsuta capillos. 30 Incle loco medius rerum novitate paventem Sol oculis juvenem, quibus adspicit omnia, vidit, Quaeque viae tibi causa? quid hac, ait, arce petisti, Progenies, Phaethon, baud infitianda parenti?
Seite 2 - ... orbem. sic ubi dispositam, quisquis fuit ille deorum, congeriem secuit sectamque in membra redegit : principio terram, ne non aequalis ab omni parte foret, magni speciem glomeravit in orbis.