...n a very proper light by the ingenious Abbe Bannier, in his preface to his Mythology, a work great erudition and of equal judgment. “It will be easy,”... ..., brought up the rear. Thus fable reports, that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fin... ...ader. In this the antients had a great advantage over the moderns. Their mythology, which was at that time more firmly be lieved by the vulgar than...

...schievous Sidney, ‘and the fairest——’ ‘Go to, Sidney. Were she fairer than Venus, with a king- dom to her dower, I would none of a woman without a blu... ...ly, completing, as Henry said, the 99 The Chaplet of Pearls galimatias of mythology, a pasteboard cloud was propelled on the stage, and disclosed the... ...e T urkish essence distilled from roses; yea, and the finest spirit of the Venus myrtle-tree, the secret known to the Roman dames of old, whereby they...

...en to a member under L20, and is respected enormously—like the lady of the Mythology, who was an intolerable Tartar of virtue, because her price was n... ...it, you know; the women hate it! A married blonde of five-and-twenty’s the Venus of them all. Mind you, I don’t forget that Mrs. Wardour-Devereux is a...

...and then off with Julia, exactly like two Gods of the 107 George Meredith Mythology, Apollo and Mercury. ‘I often used to think they had the jolliest... ...dith like what I should have felt had I given Minerva the apple instead of Venus. ‘Oh!’ he commented, and stepped down to the road to meet her, beginn...

.......................................................... 29 HOMER’S HYMN TO VENUS ........................................................................ ...YMN HOMER’S HYMN HOMER’S HYMN HOMER’S HYMN HOMER’S HYMN T T T T TO O O O O VENUS VENUS VENUS VENUS VENUS Published by Garnett, “Relics of Shelley”, 18... ...urn ancient Rhea bare. _40 but in return, In Venus Jove did soft desire awaken, That by her own enchantments overtaken, ... ... _45 For once amid the assembled Deities, The laughter-loving Venus from her eyes 31 Shelley Shot forth the light of a soft starlight sm... ...s among the mossy fountains Of the wide Ida’s many-folded mountains,— Whom Venus saw, and loved, and the love clung Like wasting fire her senses wild ... ...pendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this nature has ta... ... present argument which is as- sumed. The language spoken, however, by the mythology of nearly all religions seems to prove that at some distant pe- r... ...ter the important truths were forgotten, which this portion of the ancient mythology was intended to transmit, the drift of the fable seems to be this...

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...de its primary value as the first chapter of the history of Eu- rope, (the mythology thinly veiling authentic facts, the invention of the mechanic art... ...close- ness to the faith of later ages. Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology. He is the friend of man; stands be- tween the unjust “justice” o... ...f *St. Augustine, Confessions, B. I. 59 Emerson its moral aim. The Indian mythology ends in the same ethics; and it would seem impossible for any fab... ...r and low. The old tragic Necessity, which lowers on the brows even of the Venuses and the Cupids of the antique, and furnishes the sole apology for t... ...ense that the evils of the world are such only to the evil eye. In the old mythology, mythologists observe, defects are ascribed to divine natures, as... ...nning, and too bad for blessing, it reminds us of a tradition of the pagan mythology, in any attempt to settle its character. ‘I overheard Jove, one d...

... “O, that Robinson Crusoe must have been a great prophet!” To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient his tory and biography. So far from bei... ...tury was equal to a thousand years. The poet is he who can write some pure mythology to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instan... ...oirs to serve for a history,” which itself is but materials to serve for a mythology. How many volumes folio would the Life and Labors of Prometheus h... ... yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no Sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thum oi phyle ’ousa ’ te, k edome... ...Him that made him? 51 HenryDavidThoreau One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,—the Christian fable. With what pains, and tea... ..., and tears, and blood these centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind. The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and... ...is hand, cried for pain. Running as well as flying T o the beautiful Venus, I am killed, mother, said he, I am killed, and I die. A lit... ...I remember the history of that faint light in our firmament, which we call Venus, which ancient men re garded, and which most modern men still regard...

...e case where a learned antiquary unfolds historically the record of a vast mythology. Heaps of such cases, (both law and mythological records,) surviv... ...lities must have worked an extensive conformity to their own standard. The mythology sanctioned by the ritual of public worship, the features of moral... ...rship, the features of moral nature in the gods dis- tributed through that mythology, and sometimes commemo- rated by gleams in that ritual, domineere... ...phon) a destroying energy, the people will be gloomy; if (like the Paphian Venus) libidinous, the people will be voluptuously effeminate. When the god...

... of breadth by the diaphragma, as was that woman consecrated to the Indian Venus whom the Tyanean phi- losopher did see between the river Hydaspes and... ...ap what shall be most distasteful to me: my cake will be dough, and for my Venus I shall have but some de- formed puppy: instead of serving them, I sh... ...urian tongue. For it is to be imagined that he is no way a debtor to them. Venus will be no more venerable, because she shall have lent nothing. The m... ...ve been already jerked and whirrited within the curtains of his sweetheart Venus. In confirmation whereof, amongst other relics and monu- ments of ant... ... you, and you may take it as extracted out of the profoundest mysteries of mythology, that, when the giants had enterprised the waging of a war agains... ...as he was. My wife possibly will be as comely and handsome as ever was his Venus, but not a whore like her, nor I a cuckold like him. The crook-legged...

...his liberty is the type of that spiritual freedom 3 At the spring equinox Venus is in the sign of the Pisces, which immediately precedes that of Arie... ...dy half spider, wretched 1 Lucifer. 2 Examples from classic and biblical mythology alternate. 3 Apollo, so called from his temple at Thymbra, not f...

...this case, than if I had men- tioned sphinxes or griffins, whose existence mythology in a manner admits.” “As you are an Orientalist,” replied the oth... ... written on those Italian eyelids, on the splendid shoulders worthy of the Venus of Milo, on her features, in the darker shade of down above a somewha... ...s about to enter upon. The clock on the chimney- piece was surmounted by a Venus resting on her tortoise; a half-smoked cigar lay in her arms. Costly ...

...r- winian, post-Schopenhaurian philosophy; Wagner in terms of polytheistic mythology; and Ibsen in terms of mid-XIX century Parisian dramaturgy. Nothi... ...nter went—a fellow who would paint a hag of 70 with as much enjoyment as a Venus of 20. THE STATUE. I remember: he came to heaven. Rembrandt. THE DEVI...

...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit... ... a trick of stopping; cathedral bell note; orna- mental dial; supported by Venus and the Graces; quite a summer-parlour piety. Of yours, since your la...

...not human; he is a monster, an angel wanting wings. The angel of Christian mythology has nothing but a head. On earth, the righteous person is the suf... ...ghteous person is the sufficiently tire- some Grandison, for whom the very Venus of the Cross- words is sexless. Setting aside one or two commonplace ... ... the famous statue of the Nurse of Niobe in the Vatican is to the T ribune Venus. Mme. Cibot, portress of the house in the Rue de Normandie, was the p...

...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si... ...worthy host, sir, on that stipulation. Note the superi- ority of wine over Venus!—I may say, the magnanimity of wine; our jealousy turns on him that w... ...r her—of the paternal pat-back order of pity. She adored him, by decree of Venus; and the Goddess had not decreed that he should find conso- lation in...

...orrowed from the Sept. V. of Psalm civ. 2. Vulg. sicut pellem. 5 Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn. 6 Gabriel; of the meaning of whose name the ... ... Muhammad derived his doctrines of the Genii from the Persian and In- dian mythology, and attempted to identify them with the 231 The Koran Satan and...

...jective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half-... ... equally unpleasant—the 479 William James whole prepared under the planet Venus if possible, but never under Mars or Saturn. Then, if a splinter of w...