The Age of FableSaalfield Publishing Company, 1905 - 94 من الصفحات |
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 54 - What animal is that which in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening upon three ? " CEdipus replied, " Man, who in childhood creeps on hands and knees, in manhood walks erect, and in old age with the aid of a staff.
الصفحة 41 - We ask to be priests and guardians of this your temple; and since here we have passed our lives in love and concord, we wish that one and the same hour may take us both from life, that I -may not live to see her grave, nor be laid in my own by her.
الصفحة 94 - The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown: Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town.
الصفحة 26 - Now go and tell, if you can, that you have seen Diana unapparelled." Immediately a pair of branching stag's horns grew out of his head, his neck gained in length, his ears grew sharp-pointed, his hands became feet, his arms long legs, his body was covered with a hairy, spotted hide. Fear took the place of his former boldness, and the hero fled.
الصفحة 46 - Have me," said she; but it was all in vain. He left her, and she went to hide her blushes in the recesses of the woods. From that time forth she lived in caves and among mountain cliffs. Her form faded with grief, till at last all her flesh shrank away. Her bones were changed into rocks and there was nothing left of her but her voice. With that she is still ready to reply to any one who calls her, and keeps up her old habit of having the last word.
الصفحة 96 - THE UNICORN. Pliny, the Roman naturalist, out of whose account of the unicorn most of the modern unicorns have been described and figured, records it as " a very ferocious beast, similar in the rest of its body to a horse, with the head of a deer, the feet of an elephant, the tail of a boar, a deep bellowing voice, and a single black horn, two cubits in length, standing out in the middle of its forehead.
الصفحة 31 - You pass by the horns of the Bull, in front of the Archer, and near the Lion's jaws, and where the Scorpion stretches its arms in one direction and the Crab in another. Nor will you...
الصفحة 10 - The forest had not yet been robbed of its trees to furnish timbers for vessels, nor had men built fortifications round their towns. There were no such things as swords, spears, or helmets. The earth brought forth all things necessary for man, without his labor in ploughing or sowing. Perpetual spring reigned, flowers sprang up without seed, the rivers .flowed with milk and wine, and yellow honey distilled from the oaks.
الصفحة 40 - But the goose, too nimble, with the aid of feet and wings, for the old folks, eluded their pursuit and at last took shelter between the gods themselves. They forbade it to be slain; and spoke in these words: "We are gods. This inhospitable village shall pay the penalty of its impiety; you alone shall go free from the chastisement. Quit your house and come with us to the top of yonder hill.
الصفحة 26 - ... countenance of Diana thus taken by surprise. Surrounded as she was by her nymphs, she yet turned half away, and sought with a sudden impulse for her arrows. As they were not at hand, she dashed the water into the face of the intruder, adding these words: "Now go and tell, if you can, that you have seen Diana unapparelled.