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..., as I have already shown he might easily have done ( Studies in the Fairy Mythology of Arthurian Romance , Boston, 1903, pp. 26 28), or, as Professor... ...ussed the various versions of Arthur’s stay in Avalon in Studies in Fairy Mythology , chapter III. On Avalon, see id., p. 40, note 2. On the early b...

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...itutions. T o their king, divine rights were paid; while for poetry, their mythology rivalled that of ancient Greece. Of Tahiti, earlier and more full... ... which assailed them. The supreme maj- esty of Oro, the great god of their mythology, was declared in the cocoa-nut log from which his image was rudel... ...laimed to be a sort of bye-blow of T ararroa, the Saturn of the Polynesian mythology, and cousin-german to inferior deities. His person was thrice hol...

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...We should praise it falsely to call it so; for the feeble, though elegant, mythology of Greece was incapable of breeding anything so deep as the myste... ...cal education, could have been so much at home in the details of the elder mythology? Tooke’s ‘Pantheon’ might have been obtained by favor of any Engl... ...T riton wind his wreathed horn;’ whether this, or the passage on the Greek mythology in ‘The Excursion.’ Whichever he means, I am the last man to deny...

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...le opium one can make you sleep. We 36 The Girl with the Golden Eyes know mythology and the fable of Argus.” Before entering the carriage, the golden...

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...ter during the demoniacal possession of a suffering conscience (or, in the mythology of the play, haunted by the Furies), and in circumstances of imme...

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...at of the con- science. Now, for a rude and uncultivated people, the Pagan mythology might not be too gross to discharge the main functions of a usefu... ...our moral obligations, and of our consolations in misery, except the fairy mythology of our nurses. The condition of a people so situated, of a people...

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...graves: so do its ancient influences outlive all other remnants of the old mythology and old butchery of Rome, in the nature of the fierce and cruel R... ...than lamely assort. It is stranger still, to see how many ruins of the old mythology: how many fragments of obsolete legend and observance: have been ...

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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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... treated as a school-girl now. Mlle, Boncourt had not given her lessons in mythology and geography for a long while; but Natalya had every morning to ...

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...ost recalls Daedalus’ address to 41 Balzac Icarus; for where, save in old mythology, can you look for comparisons worthy of this man of antique mould...

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...ggles towards it, with the millstones of Syrian theology and an outrageous mythology of incarnation and resurrection about its neck. When at last our ...

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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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...ations which had taken for its share the new humanity. He thought that the mythology of the Greeks was borrowed both from the Hebrew Scriptures and fr...

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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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...ds of him and the wine-flask. There must be meanings to that effect in the Mythology, awaiting unravelment. For the subject opens to deeper than cella... ...a forest foli- age—rustle of silks and muslins, magic interweaving, or the mythology, if you prefer it. See, hear, smell, they are Juno, Venus, Hebe, ...

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...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ... ...churchmen, their great patrons, suggested most of their themes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pi...

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...rigin is not nearly so sublime as you would make it out. Keightley’s Fairy Mythology says he is only our old friend Robin Good- fellow, Milton’s lubbe...

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...rk, or rather frostwork: it was all a vapory exhalation out of the Grecian mythology, crystallizing on the dull window-panes of to-day. Gifted with a ...

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...churchmen, their great patrons, suggested most of their themes, and a dead mythology the rest. A quarter part, probably, of any large collection of pi...