Tales of the Gods and HeroesLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862 - 310 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Achæans Achilles Agamemnon Aphroditê Ariadnê Artemis Athênê Athens bade battle beauty Bellerophôn brave bright heroes Calypso chieftains child Comparative Mythology Croesus Daphnê dark daughter death deeds Dionysos Divine dwell earth Enipeus Enonê Eôs Erectheus Eurystheus evil eyes fair father feast fell gently gift Gladstone golden Greek mythology grief Grote hand hastened heard hearken heart heaven Hector Helen Hêlios Heracles Hêrê Herodotus Hesiod History of Greece history of Herodotus Homer Ibid Iliad Ilion Kephalos king Kirkê knew land legend looked Lykian maiden Max Müller Medeia Meleagros mighty moral mythical myths Odysseus Olympus Paris Persian War Persians Phaethon Phoebus Apollo poet Poseidon Priam Procris Prometheus robe Sarpêdon ship Sigurdr slain sleep smote sorrow sought spake spear stream strife tale thee Theseus thou art thou hast thought toil undying gods voice wandered weary wife words wrath Zeus
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 54 - ; and again, as in the words of our own poet, who sings how— ' Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In another's being mingle,' and how—
Seite 290 - The sunbeams are my shafts with which I kill Deceit, that loves the night and fears the day. All men who do, or even imagine, ill Fly me.' Shelley, Hymn of Apollo. Note
Seite 39 - storms and lightnings, were all living beings: could he help thinking that, like himself, they were conscious beings also? His very words would by an inevitable necessity express this conviction. His language would admit no single expression from which the attribute of life was excluded, while it would vary the forms of that life with
Seite 307 - THE TALE OF THE GREAT PERSIAN WAR, FROM THE HISTORIES OF HERODOTUS. In fcp, 8vo. with 12 Woodcuts, price 7*.
Seite 43 - would be fatal as his fiery car rose higher in the sky. So would man speak of all other things also, of the thunder and the earthquake and the storm, not less than of summer and winter. But it would be no personification, and still less would it be an allegory or
Seite 39 - of the conditions of his own life or of any other, and therefore all things on the earth or in the heavens were invested with the same vague idea of existence. The sun, the moon, the stars, the ground on which he trod, the clouds
Seite 38 - whether of their origin, their nature, or their properties. But he had life, and therefore all things else must have life also. He was under no necessity of personifying them, for he had for himself no distinctions between consciousness and personality. He knew nothing
Seite 31 - must, if his hypothesis be correct, show the vestiges of a traditional knowledge, 'derived from the epoch when the covenant of God with man and the promise of a Messiah had not yet fallen within the contracted forms of Judaism for shelter,
Seite 42 - For every aspect of the material world he would have ready some life-giving expression; and those aspects would be scarcely less varied than his words. The same object would at different times or under different conditions awaken the most opposite or inconsistent conceptions. But these conceptions and the words which expressed them would exist side by side without
Seite 76 - that was repulsive and immoral. 1 Both, from the ordinary speech of their common forefathers, had framed a number of legends which had their gross and impure aspects, but for the grossness of which they were not (as we have seen), and they could not be, responsible. But if the mythology of the Greeks is in