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...rally , incon sistent with one another. At one time we are in the clouds of mythology , at another among the abstractions of mathematics or metaphysi... ...it; there can be no other. We may trace them in language, in philosophy , in mythology , in poetry , but we cannot argue a priori about them. We may a...

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... Gorgon. His name is Perseus, and you may read his story, not in the Greek mythology, but in the memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini. Glancing from one of th...

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...ren of that pair have been over whelmed, and found no such refuge. In the mythology of the savage, these mountains were afterwards considered sa cre...

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...cinity of Loch Katrine. The learned author is inclined to deduce the whole mythology from the Druidical system—an opinion to which there are many ob- ... ...mission of similar tales from age to age, and from country to country. The mythology of one period would then appear to pass into the romance of the n...

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...have been eager to build and christen:so that it seems as if, in the Malta mythology, they had been turned into freestone. In the armoury is the very ... ...have ladies to consider Greece “romantic,” they who get their no- tions of mythology from the well-known pages of “Tooke’s Pantheon”?What is the reaso...

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...n legends— such as that of “Heinzelman,” to be found in Keightley’s “Fairy Mythology,” and to “T eague of the Lea,” as related in Croker’s “Irish Fair...

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...aid Madame de Bourke, unable to help smiling at her little daughter’s glib mythology, while going to the rescue of the embroidery silks, in which her ...

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...in a quick tenor. “Instead of propounding plainly and without the acereted mythology of Asia Minor, Greece and Rome, the pure Gospel of Christ…. they ...

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..., in the em- braces of dyspepsia, compiled his ponderous work on the Fairy Mythology of Europe. He had little to do with the Hope of Raynham beyond wh... ...ional exist- ence has brought poor Hippias. “No wonder. Ten years of Fairy Mythology! Could anyone hope to sleep in peace after that? As to your diges... ...n?—Mr. Blaize intends her for his son a junction that every lover of fairy mythology must desire to see consummated. Young T om is heir to all the agr...

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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 ...

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... at a single moment upon us, really outdoes the hun- dred-handed giants of mythology?” And, doubtless, the rest of the Syracusans were but the body of... ... discerning future events by dim and uncertain intima- tions. This was the mythology of the wisest of the Tuscan sages, who were thought to possess a ... ...in his land, seemed to restore to the world that community of goods, which mythology says existed in the reign of Saturn. Those who object to him that...

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... either C or L or Rubempre is in the right of it, or mayhap all the three. Mythology, beyond doubt one of the grandest inventions of the human brain, ...

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...neers at the soft, sanguinary graciousness they were to expect, and racked mythology for spiteful compari- sons; while Algernon vehemently defended he...

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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 ...

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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...

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...h- ers, one of whom was something like Loki, in the Northern 267 Yo n g e mythology, always tricking him. Ikpat had disappeared in a ship, taking the...

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................................................................................................... 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM............................................... 38 LECTURE III. THE HERO AS POET. DANTE: SHAKSPEARE. .............................................. 68...

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........................ 4 THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. .............. 4 LECTURE II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOMET: ISLAM... ...y 5, 1840.] LECTURE I THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGAN- ISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY. W E HAVE UNDERTAKEN to discourse here for a little on Great Men,... ... among several other books he wrote, a kind of Prose Synopsis of the whole Mythology; elucidated by new fragments of traditionary verse. A work constr... ...; he first has made Life alive!—We may call this Odin, the origin of Norse Mythology: Odin, or whatever name the First Norse Thinker bore while he was... ...the Past, and covering the whole Northern Heaven, is not that Scandinavian Mythology in some sort the Portraiture of this man Odin? The gigantic image... ...This, I should say, is more sincerely done in the Scandinavian than in any Mythology I know. Sincerity is the great charac- teristic of it. Superior s... ...y of the World. Of the distinctive poetic character or merit of this Norse Mythology I have not room to speak; nor does it concern us much. Some wild ...

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...lly shrugged. "Don't know yet. I'm into metaphysical stuff like you. Greek mythology, history. Of course literature and maybe the performing arts..." ...

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...ion in the public esteem, in a 3 The Lamplighter direct line to the heathen mythology; and hold that the history of Prometheus himself is but a pleas...

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...d, whenever Miss Pupford gives a little 17 Charles Dickens lecture on the mythology of the misguided heathens (always carefully excluding Cupid from ...