The Unicorn: A Mythological InvestigationLongmans, Green and Company, 1881 - 97 من الصفحات |
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... figures . The swift unicorn , either Anglo - Saxon or Dane , was obliged to fly before the two Norman leopards [ or perhaps " lions " 5 ] . Hence 1 Wright , The Roll of Caerlaverock , 17 . 2 The Siege of Carlaverock , 186 . 3 " The ...
... figures . The swift unicorn , either Anglo - Saxon or Dane , was obliged to fly before the two Norman leopards [ or perhaps " lions " 5 ] . Hence 1 Wright , The Roll of Caerlaverock , 17 . 2 The Siege of Carlaverock , 186 . 3 " The ...
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... figure of a unicorn sejant supporting the royal escutcheon . In the same reign - that of James III . - we first find unicorn pur- suivant . ' 2 The following instances ( amongst many ) exhibit the Unicorn as a Charge : — The Arms of Sir ...
... figure of a unicorn sejant supporting the royal escutcheon . In the same reign - that of James III . - we first find unicorn pur- suivant . ' 2 The following instances ( amongst many ) exhibit the Unicorn as a Charge : — The Arms of Sir ...
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... figures or partly human figures when used in a religious connexion are symbolical , I do not for a moment contend that all unicornic animal - figures represent the moon ; but merely that the creature whose form is familiar to us in ...
... figures or partly human figures when used in a religious connexion are symbolical , I do not for a moment contend that all unicornic animal - figures represent the moon ; but merely that the creature whose form is familiar to us in ...
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... figure composed of two crescent moons addorsed and fastened together . All the animals are salient . With both these designs let us consider III . An Assyrian Cylinder of great interest , said to portray Merodach , or Bel , armed for ...
... figure composed of two crescent moons addorsed and fastened together . All the animals are salient . With both these designs let us consider III . An Assyrian Cylinder of great interest , said to portray Merodach , or Bel , armed for ...
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... figure in another long garment , in front of and ap- parently conversing with him . Behind this second figure are two Unicorn - goats , counter - salient , with heads regardant as in the last example . Above the Unicorns and the second ...
... figure in another long garment , in front of and ap- parently conversing with him . Behind this second figure are two Unicorn - goats , counter - salient , with heads regardant as in the last example . Above the Unicorns and the second ...
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¹ Vide Akkadian amongst Ancient animal Apollôn appears archaic arms Aryan Assyrian Athamas Babylonian bright bull Bundahis called coins connected connexion creature crescent Crescent-moon Culte Cylinder darkness Dionysos divinity emblem Euripides eyes fore full moon Garmr goddess Gorgô Gorgon Grove Gryphon Guillim head heaven Hekatê Herakles Heraldry Hesiod horn Ibid Inô instances K. O. Müller Kamic Kepheus King kosmic order legs Lenormant Leopard Lion Lion-sun Luna lunar lunar phases Lyon Medousa Merodach Mimir Moon-god Mykênê myth Mythology night nocturnal origin Pausanias Perseus personage phase Phoenician Plutarch Prof Rawlinson reduplication remarks representation represented Rhinoceros Sacred Tree Sayce Schliemann Selênê Semitic Serpent shows Sir G. W. Cox solar subsec Sun and Moon Sun-god symbolical three-legged ass Tiamat tion Underworld Unicorn Unicorn-bull Unicorn-goat Vedic Vide G. D. M. Vide R. B. Jr Vide sec VIII whilst winged Yggdrasil
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الصفحة 91 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
الصفحة 48 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
الصفحة 71 - As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all the stars Shine, and the Shepherd gladdens in his heart...
الصفحة 85 - Like as a lyon whose imperiall powre A prowd rebellious unicorn defyes, T' avoide the rash assault and wrathful stowre Of his fiers foe, him to a tree applyes, And when him ronning in full course he spyes, He slips aside ; the whiles that furious beast His precious home, sought of his enimyes, Strikes in the stocke, ne thence can be releast, But to the mighty victor yields a bounteous feast.
الصفحة 85 - The friend of D'Ambois, before fierce L'Anou ; Which D'Ambois seeing, as I once did see In my young travels through Armenia, An angry unicorn in his full career Charge with too swift a foot a jeweller That...
الصفحة 62 - Regarding the three-legged ass they say, that it stands amid the wide-formed ocean, and its feet are three, eyes six, mouths nine, ears two, and horn one, body white, food spiritual, and it is righteous.
الصفحة 70 - Like as I die and rise to life again, so you also shall rise again when you die ; " but the hare went to men and said, " Like as I die, and do not rise again, so...
الصفحة 9 - Some have made doubt whether there be any such Beast, as this, or no. But the great esteeme of his Home (in many places to be seene) may take away that needelesse scruple.
الصفحة 44 - Ulphus's horn of ivory ; an inscription in Latin upon the horn states that Ulphus, prince of the western parts of Deira, originally gave it to the church of St. Peter, together with all his lands and revenues. Henry Lord Fairfax at last restored the horn to the church, when it had been lost or conveyed away. The dean and chapter decorated it anew, AD, 1675.