National EpicsA.C. McClurg, 1896 - 398 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 13
... arms and hands . These having been granted , he began by the aid of his evil spirits , the Rakshasas , to lay waste the earth and to do violence to the good , especially to the priests . At the time when Ravana's outrages were spreading ...
... arms and hands . These having been granted , he began by the aid of his evil spirits , the Rakshasas , to lay waste the earth and to do violence to the good , especially to the priests . At the time when Ravana's outrages were spreading ...
الصفحة 19
... arms . Her innocence thus publicly proved by the trial by fire , she was welcomed by Rama , whose treat- ment she tenderly forgave . The conquest made , the demon destroyed , and Sita restored , Rama returned in triumph to Ayodhya , and ...
... arms . Her innocence thus publicly proved by the trial by fire , she was welcomed by Rama , whose treat- ment she tenderly forgave . The conquest made , the demon destroyed , and Sita restored , Rama returned in triumph to Ayodhya , and ...
الصفحة 22
... arms outstretch'd on high , amid five blazing fires , the one Towards each quarter of the sky , the fifth the full meridian sun . Mid fiercest frosts on snow he slept , the dry and withered leaves his food , Mid rains his roofless vigil ...
... arms outstretch'd on high , amid five blazing fires , the one Towards each quarter of the sky , the fifth the full meridian sun . Mid fiercest frosts on snow he slept , the dry and withered leaves his food , Mid rains his roofless vigil ...
الصفحة 38
... arms , hands , and heads , touch- ing the skies . Having been thus instructed by Krishna , Arjuna went forth , and the eighteen days ' battle began . The slaughter was wholesale ; no quarter was asked or given , since each side was ...
... arms , hands , and heads , touch- ing the skies . Having been thus instructed by Krishna , Arjuna went forth , and the eighteen days ' battle began . The slaughter was wholesale ; no quarter was asked or given , since each side was ...
الصفحة 41
... arms ; And , sitting on the earth , laid her lord's head Tenderly in her lap . So bent she , mute , Fanning his face , and thinking ' t was the day- The hour which Narad named ― - the sure fixed date Of dreadful end- when , lo ! before ...
... arms ; And , sitting on the earth , laid her lord's head Tenderly in her lap . So bent she , mute , Fanning his face , and thinking ' t was the day- The hour which Narad named ― - the sure fixed date Of dreadful end- when , lo ! before ...
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Achilles Æneas Æneid Arjuna armor arms battle Beatrice beautiful Beowulf Bhima blood Bradamant brother Brunhild Charlemagne Christian cried Dante daughter death deeds divine DIVINE COMEDY Draupadi earth epic eyes father fear fell fire flames fled forest Gama glory gold Greeks Grendel grief Günther Hagan hand harp hast hastened hath heard heart Heaven Hector Hell hero Hrothgar Iliad Ilmarinen Jerusalem Delivered Kalevala Kauravas king Kriemhild land lord Louhi Lusiad maid maiden mighty Moors mother night noble o'er Olivier Orlando palace Pallas Pandavas Paradise Paradise Lost Patroclus poem poet Pohyola prince queen rage Raja Rama Rinaldo Rogero Roland Rollánd rose Rüdeger Rustem Satan sent Siegfried slain slay slew song Song of Roland soul spake spirit steed stood story suitors sword tears Telemachus thee thou throne took Translation Trojans Troy Turnus Ulysses Vergil Wainamoinen warriors wife youth Yudhi-sthira Zerbino
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الصفحة 381 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
الصفحة 383 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity...
الصفحة 381 - Hail, horrors ! hail, Infernal World ! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
الصفحة 383 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more Cease I to wander, where the Muses haunt « Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
الصفحة 382 - Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear — to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand — He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire.
الصفحة 381 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...
الصفحة 398 - Meroe Nilotic isle, and more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Blackmoor sea ; From the Asian kings and Parthian among these, From India, and the golden Chersonese, And utmost Indian isle, Taprobane, Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed ; From Gallia, Gades, and the British west ; Germans, and Scythians, and Sarmatians, north Beyond Danubius to the Tauric pool.
الصفحة 397 - From cold septentrion blasts ; thence in the midst Divided by a river, of whose banks On each side an imperial city stood, With towers and temples proudly elevate On seven small hills, with palaces adorned,, Porches and theatres, baths, aqueducts, Statues and trophies, and triumphal arcs, Gardens and groves, presented to his eyes...
الصفحة 384 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
الصفحة 382 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.