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...I (Cadmus, Actaeon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus, Pentheus) Book IV (Pyramus, Leucothoe, Salmacis, Ino, Cadmus, Perseus) Book V (Perseus, Calliope, Proserpine, Arethusa, The Pierides) Book VI (Arachne, Niobe, Marsyas, Procne, Philomela, Boreas) Book VII (Jason, Medea, Minos, The Plague, Myrmidons, Procris) Book VIII (Scylla, Daedalus, Icarus, Meleager, Philemon and Ba...

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...notable for his work in fantasy. He was influenced by Algernon Swinburne, who wrote the line Time and the Gods are at strife in his 1866 poem Hymn to Proserpine, as well as by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. In turn, Dunsany's influence was felt by H. P. Lovecraft and Ursula K. Le Guin. Arthur C. Clarke corresponded with Dunsany between 1...

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.......................................................................................................................288 Persephone (per-sef ́-o-ne) [Proserpine]................................................................................................288 Perseus (per ́-suce)................................................................................................

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...i. Od. xxviii. 19. Of old and young thicke funerals are shared By cruell Proserpine no head is spared. I was faine to endure this strange condit...

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... flat seeming face Of Cynthia, when th’earths shadowes her embrace. Like Proserpines white beauty-keeping chest, Or joves best fortunes urne, is...

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...age to see his skilfull might Deluded so, gan threaten hellish paine And sad Proserpines wrath, them to affright. But when he saw his threatning was b...

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...ore you can sail home wards. You must go to the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias who... ...Theban prophet Teiresias whose reason is still un shaken. T o him alone has Proserpine left his under standing even in death, but the other ghosts f... ...hip has traversed the waters of Oceanus, you will reach the fertile shore of Proserpine’s country with its groves of tall poplars and willows that she... ...t killed, and offer them as a burnt sacrifice with prayers to Ha des and to Proserpine. Then draw your sword and sit there, so as to prevent any othe... ...ined to me that instead of this, we have got to go to the house of Hades and Proserpine to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet T eiresias.’ “The m... ...nt offerings of them, and at the same time to repeat prayers to Hades and to Proserpine; but I sat where I was with my sword drawn and would The Odyss... ...sad comfort in the shar ing of our sorrows even in the house of Hades; does Proserpine want to lay a still further load of grief upon me by mocking m... ... only?’ “‘My son,’ she answered, ‘most ill fated of all man kind, it is not Proserpine that is beguiling you, but all people are like this when they ... ...t you may tell them to your wife hereafter.’ “Thus did we converse, and anon Proserpine sent up the ghosts of the wives and daughters of all the most ...

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...bystander to be a witness to his bad treat- ment. The woman says, ‘If, by Proserpine, instead of all this ‘testifying’ (comp. Cuddie and his mother i...

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................................................................. 138 SONG OF PROSERPINE WHILE GATHERING FLOWERS ON THE PLAIN OF ENNA. ..................... ...luence most divine _5 On thine own child, Proserpine. 2. 2. 2. 2. 2. If with mists of evening dew Thou dost nourish t... ... _10 Breathe thine influence most divine On thine own child, Proserpine. HYMN OF APOLL HYMN OF APOLL HYMN OF APOLL HYMN OF APOLL HYMN OF...

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...njured son, commanded Psyche to visit the Infernal Regions and obtain from Proserpine a closed box of cosmetic which was on no account to be opened. P... ...ropitiate Cerberus with cakes after the approved fashion. She thus reached Proserpine’s throne, and obtained the cas- ket, but when she had again reac... ...OSMETIC THE COSMETIC But one more task I charge thee with to-day, For unto Proserpine then take thy way, And give this golden casket to her hands. —Mo...

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... Achil les, and thou art as full of envy at his greatness as Cerberus is at Proserpine’s beauty, ay, that thou barkest at him. AJAX: Mistress Thersi...

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...s she released Adelaide; “I felt as if your papa were Orpheus, when ‘Stern Proserpine relented, And gave him back the fair—’ and I was sure Aunt Barba... ...ave her for my companion.” Kate’s eyes glistened, and she thought of stern Proserpine. “My dear Emily, you do not know what you ask. She will be far t...

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...ing to a woman; gloomy Pluto himself is not insensible to love. Like a new Proserpine, she, by this red gloomy Dis, is gathered; and, they say, soften... ...French Revolution - V olume Three Senhora Fontenai, born Cabarus, the fair Proserpine whom Representative Tallien Pluto-like did gather at Bourdeaux, ...

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...ull hellish Snake, what furie furst Brought thee from balefull house of Proserpine, Where in her bosome she thee long had nurst, And fo...

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... against Alcibiades, for his impious mock- ery of the goddesses, Ceres and Proserpine. The people were highly exasperated and incensed against Alcibia... ... of the Scambonidae, has committed a crime against the goddesses Ceres and Proserpine, by representing in derision the holy mysteries, and showing the... ...ey fought within their own territories in the plain of Ceres Eleusinia and Proserpine. Aristides was perplexed upon the tidings of this oracle: since ... ..., there was a very ancient temple called the temple of Ceres Eleusinia and Proserpine. He there- fore forthwith took Aristides to the place, which was... ...nimated them with mani- fest signs, more especially now in the festival of Proserpine, where a black heifer being wanting for sacrifice, they sup- pli... ... how it was likely that Hercules should aid the Syracusans for the sake of Proserpine, by whose means he took Cerberus, and should be angry with the A...

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...ne might ever sit upon knees—and the gods, Jove of the world below and awful Proserpine, fulfilled his curse. I took coun sel to kill him, but some g... ...the gods, and beat the earth with her hands, calling upon Hades and on awful Proserpine; she went down upon her knees and her bosom was wet with tears...

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...t ends, Where to the main the shelving shore descends; The barren trees of Proserpine’s black woods, Poplars and willows trembling o’er the floods: Th... ...n foreign lands, Yet bled at home, and bled by female hands. “Now summon’d Proserpine to hell’s black hall The heroine shades: they vanish’d at her ca...

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...ause of the vast pressure that weighed upon it; while two stars, Pluto and Proserpine, rolled within upon the circuit of their mysterious orbits. We w...

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...He sung, and hell consented To hear the poet’s prayer: Stern Proserpine relented, And gave him back the fair. Thus son...

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...rrows running up are fraught With meanings; there the goddess walks, While Proserpine is young, and there – ‘Mid the late autumn sheaves, her voice So...

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... Saeva caput Proserpina fugit;” [“Old and young die in mixed heaps. Cruel Proserpine for- bears none.”—Horace, Od., i. 28, 19.] 301 Montaigne I had ...

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...hich was after this manner. The juror went into the sanctuary of Ceres and Proserpine, where, after the performance of some ceremonies, he was clad in... ... little valued the goddesses, that he stayed but till the very festival of Proserpine, by whom he had sworn, and on that very day committed his intend...

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...ply divided between the blonde and the brunette; the aquiline nose and the Proserpine; this shaped eye and that. But go about among simple unprofessio...

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...barren be his bed.’ Infernal Jove, the vengeful fiends below, And ruthless Proserpine, confirm’d his vow. Despair and grief distract my labouring mind...

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...rybdis! I don’t want to die on the Sicilian plains—to be snatched away, like Proserpine in the same locality, to the Plutonian shades.” “What the deuc...

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...bdis! I don’t want to die on the Sicilian plains—to be snatched away, like Proserpine in the same locality, to the Plutonian shades.” “What the deuce ...

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...he sole cases of questionable idiom throughout Milton:—1st, “Yet virgin of Proserpine from Jove;” and, in this case, the same thing might be urged in ...

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...ly, gesticulating; and looking like Ceres after the rape of her daugh- ter Proserpine, seeking her in fury, and demanding her back from Jupiter. Every...

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...tic orator, but, like all his features, void of subtlety. The typist, Miss Proserpine Garnett, is a brisk little woman of about 30, of the lower middl... ...rning’s let- ters. He realizes its contents with a comic groan of despair. PROSERPINE. Another lecture? MORELL. Yes. The Hoxton Freedom Group want me ... ...n- day,” this being the unreasonable part of the business). What are they? PROSERPINE. Communist Anarchists, I think. MORELL. Just like Anarchists not... ...d. Say I can only come on Mondays and Thursdays. Have you the diary there? PROSERPINE (taking up the diary). Yes. MORELL. Have I any lecture on for ne... ...(taking up the diary). Yes. MORELL. Have I any lecture on for next Monday? PROSERPINE (referring to diary). T ower Hamlets Radical Club. MORELL. Well,... ...rring to diary). T ower Hamlets Radical Club. MORELL. Well, Thursday then? PROSERPINE. English Land Restoration League. MORELL. What next? PROSERPINE.... ...LL (amused). Ah; but you see they’re near relatives of mine, Miss Garnett. PROSERPINE (staring at him). Relatives of yours! MORELL. Yes: we have the s... ... him). Relatives of yours! MORELL. Yes: we have the same father—in Heaven. PROSERPINE (relieved). Oh, is that all? MORELL (with a sadness which is a l... ...ves it—nobody. (Briskly, getting back to business.) Well, well! Come, Miss Proserpine, can’t you find a date for the costers? What about the 25th?: th...

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...ion’s fate; And cross the unpermitted ferry’s flow, And relax Pluto’s brow, And make leap up with joy the beauteou... ...wers first open’d on Sicilian air, And flute his friend, like Orpheus, from the dead. O easy access to the hearer’s grace When Dor...

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... sovereignty E’er light upon thee, howso Greece admire Elysium’s fields, and Proserpine not heed Her mother’s voice entreating to return V ouchsafe a... ...ms of upper air THE GEORGICS 65 Had well nigh won, behind him following So Proserpine had ruled it when his heart A sudden mad desire surprised and...

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... edition— Now flames old Memnon, now Rodrigo burns, In one quick flash see Proserpine expire, And last, his own cold Aeschylus took fire. Then gushed ... ...: Pluto with Cato thou for this shalt join, And link the Mourning Bride to Proserpine. 310 Grub Street! thy fall should men and gods ... ...exander Pope: V ol. 2 of tragedy and comedy, farce and epic, see Pluto and Proserpine, Penelope, &c., if yet extant.—P . 253 ‘’Twas on the day, when ... ...h:’ this monstrous absurdity was actually represented in Tibbald’s Rape of Proserpine.—P . 369 ‘Lo! one vast egg:’ in another of these farces, Harleq... ...of the audience.—P . 375 ‘Ensure it but from fire:’ in Tibbald’s farce of Proserpine, a corn-field was set on fire; whereupon the other play-house ha...

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...at plung’d her in despair, The Sisters had not cut the topmost hair, Which Proserpine and they can only know; Nor made her sacred to the shades below.... ... are won, Oblige the father, and protect the son. Y ours is the pow’r; nor Proserpine in vain Has made you priestess of her nightly reign. If Orpheus,... ...s of radiant gold: This from the vulgar branches must be torn, And to fair Proserpine the present borne, Ere leave be giv’n to tempt the nether skies.... ... a streak of white) Aeneas offers; and, by fate’s decree, A barren heifer, Proserpine, to thee, With holocausts he Pluto’s altar fills; Sev’n brawny b...

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... came beneath the walls of Carthage to implore the protection of Ceres and Proserpine, for in Byrsa there was a temple with priests consecrated to the... ... the Sphinx, the Father of T er- ror. He had descended into the caverns of Proserpine; he had seen the five hundred pillars of the labyrinth of Lemnos... ...eated: “Oxen! oxen!” The devout exclaimed: “Lord! eat!” and the priests of Proserpine, complying through terror with the needs of Carthage, muttered t...

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...derstand what thou art singing. Thou makest me remember where and what was Proserpine, at the time when her mother lost her, and she the spring.” As a...

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... and this fair place, methinks, I call to mind where wander’d and how look’d Proserpine, in that season, when her child The mother lost, and she the b...

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...that all the devils are got loose; it is holiday with them; or else Madame Proserpine is in child’s labour: all the devils dance a morrice. Chapter 4.... ...not go; stay here and be hanged; or go and hide thy loggerhead under Madam Proserpine’s petticoat. Panurge hearing this, his breech began to make butt... ...ell receiv’st thy doom, E’en there, I know, thou’lt play some trick, And Proserpine shan’t scape a prick Of the long pin within thy breeches. But ... ...er’s banishment into our subter- ranean regions, certainly foreseeing that Proserpine would meet with more excellent things, more desirable enjoyments...

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... Seeking in those savage regions Her lost daughter Proserpine. But the Goddess found no refuge, ...

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...thee let me win This much of thee, to come, that I may hear Thy song: like Proserpine, in Enna’s glen, Thou seemest to my fancy, singing here And gath...

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... were sprinkled here and there in the adjacent meadows, like flowers which Proserpine had dropped, and still farther in the fields or higher on the ba...

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... and this fair place, methinks, I call to mind where wander’d and how look’d Proserpine, in that season, when her child The mother lost, and she the b...

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...ing to a woman; gloomy Pluto himself is not insensible to love. Like a new Proserpine, she, by this red gloomy Dis, is gath- ered; and, they say, soft... ... is one whom we have seen before. Senhora Fontenai, born Cabarus, the fair Proserpine whom Rep- resentative Tallien Pluto-like did gather at Bourdeaux...

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...ace, tripped down the steps:— “So the Coffinkey is unlocked at last! Stern Proserpine relented!” “Robert! You here?” “You never used to call me Robert...

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... Seeking in those savage regions Her lost daughter Proserpine. But the Goddess found no refuge, ...