Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volumen 151851 |
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... important investigation , I have reserved for a distinct volume the Ante - Homeric History of Greece , which will , unaided by any rationalizing process , appear for the first time divested of its mythical colouring , and a principle be ...
... important investigation , I have reserved for a distinct volume the Ante - Homeric History of Greece , which will , unaided by any rationalizing process , appear for the first time divested of its mythical colouring , and a principle be ...
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... important legends , in themselves somewhat similar , proved another source of variety . The same impulse of imagination is found in history . Anacreon , a vinous poet , is choked with a grape 1 Iliad , v . 330 . " The History of Greek ...
... important legends , in themselves somewhat similar , proved another source of variety . The same impulse of imagination is found in history . Anacreon , a vinous poet , is choked with a grape 1 Iliad , v . 330 . " The History of Greek ...
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... importance as to cause the building of the Temple . Influence of the Delphic oracle . Though the ambiguity of the Del- phic Oracle was repulsive , it is certain that , in its best days , it exercised a more powerful sway than any other ...
... importance as to cause the building of the Temple . Influence of the Delphic oracle . Though the ambiguity of the Del- phic Oracle was repulsive , it is certain that , in its best days , it exercised a more powerful sway than any other ...
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... importance . Headed by the Aadouxos , or chief torch - bearer , the procession with flaming torches repaired in the evening to the temple of Demeter at Eleusis . The initiated , clad in purple robes , and decked with crowns of myrtle ...
... importance . Headed by the Aadouxos , or chief torch - bearer , the procession with flaming torches repaired in the evening to the temple of Demeter at Eleusis . The initiated , clad in purple robes , and decked with crowns of myrtle ...
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... importance at the games , was granted them by the Corinthians ; and so powerful was the influence of religious feeling , that even in time of war with Athens , her citizens were invited to attend under the pledge of a sacred truce . In ...
... importance at the games , was granted them by the Corinthians ; and so powerful was the influence of religious feeling , that even in time of war with Athens , her citizens were invited to attend under the pledge of a sacred truce . In ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 155 - Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Página 477 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Página 445 - For those purposes they think some part of the wealth of the country is as usefully employed, as it can be in fomenting the luxury of individuals. It is the public ornament. It is the public consolation. It nourishes the public hope. The poorest man finds his own importance and dignity in it...
Página 375 - Samuel said, hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord ? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken, than the fat of rams.
Página 116 - De'iphobus in the under-world — if we are asked whether there was not really some such historical Trojan war as this, our answer must be, that as the possibility of it cannot be denied, so neither can the reality of it be affirmed.
Página 113 - Then shalt thou mourn the' affront thy madness gave, Forced to deplore, when impotent to save : Then rage in bitterness of soul, to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe.?
Página 148 - Spartan children were not in that manner, under tutors purchased or hired with money, nor were the parents at liberty to educate them as they pleased : but as soon as they were seven years old, Lycurgus ordered them to be enrolled in companies, where they were all kept under the same order and discipline, and had their exercises and recreations in common.
Página 365 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Página 375 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Página 34 - The sire of gods and all the ethereal train, On the warm limits of the farthest main, Now mix with mortals, nor disdain to grace The feasts of Ethiopia's blameless race ; Twelve days the powers indulge the genial rite, Returning with the twelfth revolving light. Then will I mount the brazen dome, and move 560 The high tribunal of immortal Jove.