The Young Folks' Library: A book of famous myths and legendsHall & Locke, 1901 |
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الصفحة xvi
... fire , the swift wind , the rolling waters , the clouds , and the earth , and the dark world of things that lie beneath its green breast . Myths are only the ideas of men about the causes of those natural things which do not now seem ...
... fire , the swift wind , the rolling waters , the clouds , and the earth , and the dark world of things that lie beneath its green breast . Myths are only the ideas of men about the causes of those natural things which do not now seem ...
الصفحة xvii
... fire , its uses and dangers . Thus , it is the same idea which is the core of the stories about Agni , the God of Fire in India , and Vesta , the Goddess of the Common Hearth at Rome ; about Vulcan , the Roman God of Ironsmiths , and ...
... fire , its uses and dangers . Thus , it is the same idea which is the core of the stories about Agni , the God of Fire in India , and Vesta , the Goddess of the Common Hearth at Rome ; about Vulcan , the Roman God of Ironsmiths , and ...
الصفحة xx
... fire stolen from the gods by Prometheus , the Titans stricken by lightning , the story of Dionysos or Bacchus , the Blessed Fields , the Happy Islands , the Dark Under - World , had once a real moral warn- ing attached to them . In the ...
... fire stolen from the gods by Prometheus , the Titans stricken by lightning , the story of Dionysos or Bacchus , the Blessed Fields , the Happy Islands , the Dark Under - World , had once a real moral warn- ing attached to them . In the ...
الصفحة 4
... fire . As Midas knew that he had carefully turned the key in the lock , and that no mortal strength could possibly break into his treasure - room , he , of course , concluded that his visitor must be something more than mortal . It is ...
... fire . As Midas knew that he had carefully turned the key in the lock , and that no mortal strength could possibly break into his treasure - room , he , of course , concluded that his visitor must be something more than mortal . It is ...
الصفحة 98
... fire , and the shaping of the wondrous earth . And he sang of the treasures of the hills , and the hidden jewels of the mine , and the veins of fire and metal , and the virtues of all healing herbs , and of the speech of birds , and of ...
... fire , and the shaping of the wondrous earth . And he sang of the treasures of the hills , and the hidden jewels of the mine , and the veins of fire and metal , and the virtues of all healing herbs , and of the speech of birds , and of ...
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Aietes Alcinous Anauros answered asked bade Baucis beautiful Beowulf called cave Chalciope Cheiron Circe clouds Colchi comrades cried Cyclops dark daughter earth Epimetheus Eurylochus eyes face fair father feast fell fight Gareth Geraint giant Glooskap gods gold golden apples Golden Fleece Golden Touch grew guests hall hand head hear heard heart Heracles Hercules heroes Hesperides Horn Iolcos island Jason King Arthur King Midas knew land leapt looked magic maidens Marygold Medeia Menelaus mighty milk Minuai mother mountain never night oars Orpheus palace Pandora Pelias Pelion Philemon Phrixus pitcher pray Queen Riminild rock rose round sailed seemed ship shore slay sleep smile song spake stood story strange stranger suitors sword Telemachus tell thee things thou thought Tiphys told took trees Troy Ulysses voice wept wife wind wine wonderful Zeus
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 370 - ... government. Happily that was at an end; he had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony, and could go in and out whenever he pleased without dreading the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle. Whenever her name was mentioned, however, he shook his head, shrugged his shoulders, and cast up his eyes; which might pass either for an expression of resignation to his fate, or joy at his deliverance. He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. Doolittle's hotel.
الصفحة 368 - Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's twenty years since he went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of since— his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl.
الصفحة 269 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her...
الصفحة 370 - ... husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip's son and heir, who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree, he was employed to work on the farm; but evinced an hereditary disposition to attend to anything else but his business.
الصفحة 350 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height and lording it over the surrounding country.
الصفحة 358 - Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky, and the bright evening cloud.
الصفحة 354 - The moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
الصفحة 353 - Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to...
الصفحة 369 - Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name. That his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in a hollow of the mountain; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
الصفحة 360 - One taste provoked another; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were over-powered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep.