Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, System of universal knowledge, Volumen 151851 |
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... influences of Mythology upon the early Greeks , to convey a preliminary idea of their heroic and legendary belief . To this suc- ceeds a compendious notice of the Mysteries , Oracles , and Games of that ingenious people . Immediately in ...
... influences of Mythology upon the early Greeks , to convey a preliminary idea of their heroic and legendary belief . To this suc- ceeds a compendious notice of the Mysteries , Oracles , and Games of that ingenious people . Immediately in ...
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... INFLUENCE OF MYTHOLOGY OVER THE EARLY GREEKS · • CHAPTER II . - ORACLES , MYSTERIES , FESTIVALS , AND NATIONAL GAMES OF THE EARLY GREEKS SECTION 1. The Oracles 2. The Mysteries 3. The Isthmian Games 4. The Nemæan Games 5. The Olympic ...
... INFLUENCE OF MYTHOLOGY OVER THE EARLY GREEKS · • CHAPTER II . - ORACLES , MYSTERIES , FESTIVALS , AND NATIONAL GAMES OF THE EARLY GREEKS SECTION 1. The Oracles 2. The Mysteries 3. The Isthmian Games 4. The Nemæan Games 5. The Olympic ...
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... INFLUENCE OF MYTHOLOGY OVER THE EARLY GREEKS . ORACLES , MYSTERIES , FESTIVALS , AND NATIONAL GAMES OF. -PRELIMINARY VIEW OF THE INFLUENCE OF MYTHOLOGY OVER THE EARLY GREEKS.
... INFLUENCE OF MYTHOLOGY OVER THE EARLY GREEKS . ORACLES , MYSTERIES , FESTIVALS , AND NATIONAL GAMES OF. -PRELIMINARY VIEW OF THE INFLUENCE OF MYTHOLOGY OVER THE EARLY GREEKS.
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... influences that made his countrymen willing and devout believers in the mythology he had imagined ; whilst the dignity with which he clothed his creations gave to them the charm of reality , and stamped them an ... INFLUENCE OF MYTHOLOGY .
... influences that made his countrymen willing and devout believers in the mythology he had imagined ; whilst the dignity with which he clothed his creations gave to them the charm of reality , and stamped them an ... INFLUENCE OF MYTHOLOGY .
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... influence of their local scenery , of which in Greece nature displayed the greatest variety in her richest type . The noble grandeur of Olympus ; the fertile plains of Thessaly ; the gloomy recesses of the rock - crowned Pytho , and the ...
... influence of their local scenery , of which in Greece nature displayed the greatest variety in her richest type . The noble grandeur of Olympus ; the fertile plains of Thessaly ; the gloomy recesses of the rock - crowned Pytho , and the ...
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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.