National EpicsA. C. McClurg, 1896 - 398 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 14
... daughter , Sita , in marriage to the man who could bend the mighty bow of Siva the destroyer , which , since its owner's death , had been kept at Janaka's court . Rama at once determined to accomplish the feat , which had been essayed ...
... daughter , Sita , in marriage to the man who could bend the mighty bow of Siva the destroyer , which , since its owner's death , had been kept at Janaka's court . Rama at once determined to accomplish the feat , which had been essayed ...
الصفحة 22
... daughter . To a giant's stature soaring and intolerable speed , From heaven's height down rushed she , pouring upon Siva's sacred head , Him the goddess thought in scorn with her resistless might to sweep By her fierce waves overborne ...
... daughter . To a giant's stature soaring and intolerable speed , From heaven's height down rushed she , pouring upon Siva's sacred head , Him the goddess thought in scorn with her resistless might to sweep By her fierce waves overborne ...
الصفحة 33
... daughter of the Raja Draupada of Panchala , was going to hold a Svayamvara in order to select a husband . The suitors of a princess frequently attended a meeting of this sort and took part in various athletic contests , at the end of ...
... daughter of the Raja Draupada of Panchala , was going to hold a Svayamvara in order to select a husband . The suitors of a princess frequently attended a meeting of this sort and took part in various athletic contests , at the end of ...
الصفحة 55
... daughter of the priest Chryses ; and when her father had come to ransom her , he had been insulted and driven away by the king . Chryses had prayed to Apollo for revenge , and the god had sent upon the Greeks a pestilence which was ...
... daughter of the priest Chryses ; and when her father had come to ransom her , he had been insulted and driven away by the king . Chryses had prayed to Apollo for revenge , and the god had sent upon the Greeks a pestilence which was ...
الصفحة 58
... he shall be the first to load his galley down with gold and silver and with Trojan maidens . Better yet , I will unite him to me by the ties of marriage . I will give him my daughter for a wife , and with her 58 NATIONAL EPICS .
... he shall be the first to load his galley down with gold and silver and with Trojan maidens . Better yet , I will unite him to me by the ties of marriage . I will give him my daughter for a wife , and with her 58 NATIONAL EPICS .
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Achilles Æneas Æneid armor arms battle Beatrice beautiful Beowulf Bhima blood Bradamant brother Charlemagne Christian cried Dante daughter dead death deeds divine DIVINE COMEDY Draupadi earth epic eyes father fear fell fire flames fled forest Gama glory gold Greeks grief Günther Hagan hand 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 Orlando Furioso 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 377 - 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 377 - 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 393 - To lay hills plain, fell woods, or valleys fill, Or where plain was, raise hill, or overlay With bridges rivers proud, as with a yoke : Mules after these, camels, and dromedaries, And waggons, fraught with utensils of war, Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican with all his northern powers Besieged Albracca, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from whence to win The fairest of her sex Angelica.
الصفحة 378 - If once they hear that voice, their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle when it...
الصفحة 377 - 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 394 - 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 378 - Etrurian shades High overarched embower, or scattered sedge Afloat, when with fierce winds Orion armed Hath vexed the Red Sea coast, whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcases And broken chariot wheels: so thick bestrewn Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. He called so loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded...
الصفحة 393 - 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 380 - 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 378 - 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.