woods were peopled, and the air, with things So lovely! why, ah! Why has science grave Scattered afar your sweet imagining

ge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which te

sy learning of this little volume, much of the poetry of Milton which has appeared to them “harsh and crabbed” would be fou

he same time be entertained by the most charming fictions which fancy has ever created, and put in possession of informatio

y lived exempt from disease or old age, from toils and warfare. Moore has given us the “Song of a Hyperborean,” beginning

t have been at once taken into favor. But that he disdained to do. He has therefore become the symbol of magnanimous endura

arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight The shaft has just been shot; the arrow bright With an immortal

arrows fly true to the mark; but, alas! an arrow more fatal than mine has pierced my heart! I am the god of medicine, and k

lp me, Peneus! open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger!” Scarcely had she sp

, to the conqueror’s banner true,     Who feed where Desolation first has fed,     And whose wings rain contagion: how they

and imprinting kisses on the cold lips. “O Pyramus,” she cried, “what has done this? Answer me, Pyramus; it is your own Thi

stained with blood and the scabbard empty of its sword. “Thy own hand has slain thee, and for my sake,” she said. “I too ca

he made her understand the truth.   Moore, in his Legendary Ballads, has one on Cephalus and Procris, beginning thus: — “

y son, you deserve not to be disowned, and I confirm what your mother has told you. To put an end to your doubts, ask what

oad. He is alarmed, and knows not how to guide them; nor, if he knew, has he the power. Then, for the first time, the Great

nd frankincense for your altars? But if I am unworthy of regard, what has my brother Ocean done to deserve such a fate? If

as soon as it had gained its growth, began whispering the story, and has continued to do so, from that day to this, every

some god had done it or some secret power in the herbage. “What herb has such a power?” he exclaimed; and gathering some o

tell you how I have sued and promised to her, and how scornfully she has treated me. I beseech you to use your incantation

till continues to be a terror to mariners.   Keats, in his Endymion, has given a new version of the ending of “Glaucus and

urns to the sea, and there finds the body of Scylla, whom the goddess has not transformed but drowned. Glaucus learns that

anger and put my happiness to risk. Attack not the beasts that Nature has armed with weapons. I do not value your glory so

but all in vain; the hurt was past the power of medicine. As when one has broken the stem of a lily in the garden it hangs

and her face grew deadly pale. “What fault of mine, dearest husband, has turned your affection from me? Where is that love

from his eyes, he said, “Do you recognize your Ceyx, unhappy wife, or has death too much changed my visage? Behold me, know

e loves you, and you only. Add to this, he is young and handsome, and has the art of assuming any shape he pleases, and can

to that name. I submit. Lead me to that rock to which my unhappy fate has destined me.” Accordingly, all things being prepa

ter with me my house and refresh yourselves with whatever your sister has to offer.” Then taking their hands she led them i

rtals with their sharp horns or rude teeth. But when the noontide sun has driven the cattle to the shade, and the serene sp

as driven the cattle to the shade, and the serene spirit of the flood has lulled them to rest, you may then cross in safety

to send her a little of your beauty, for in tending her sick son she has lost some of her own.’ Be not too long on your er

river and bring her back again. But the voice added, “When Proserpine has given you the box filled with her beauty, of all

the butterfly, bursting on brilliant wings from the tomb in which it has lain, after a dull, grovelling, caterpillar exist

individuals whom I previously knew, that I look for now in vain. What has become of them?” Æacus groaned, and replied with

onquered, when the conqueror is clement and generous. Minos certainly has right on his side. I think we shall be conquered;

skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven’s harmonies.” Milton has imitated the story of Narcissus in the account wh

favorite emblem of constancy. Thus Moore uses it: — “The heart that has truly loved never forgets,     But as truly loves

ident, and appears to have just smitten the earth, from which a horse has leaped forth. Minerva depicted herself with helme

am flows, the tribute of her never-ending grief.   The story of Niobe has furnished Byron with a fine illustration of the f

“To stone the gods have changed her, but in vain; The sculptor’s art has made her breathe again.” Tragic as is the story

as is the story of Niobe, we cannot forbear to smile at the use Moore has made of it in Rhymes on the Road: — “’Twas in hi

made a lie.” Vol. II, p. 12. Pegasus, being the horse of the Muses, has always been at the service of the poets. Schiller

s it builds its nest, and instead of an egg lays an agate therein. It has long claws and talons of such a size that the peo

one of the choruses of the tragedy of Medea, where the poet Euripides has taken advantage of the occasion to pay a glowing

feel grieved at his attaining this honor, yet no one can deny that he has deserved it.” The gods all gave their assent; Jun

ere is another statement which our countryman Crawford, the sculptor, has adopted in his group of Hebe and Ganymede, now in

ivities attending the nuptials of Theseus and Hippolyta. Mrs. Hemans has a poem on the ancient Greek tradition that the “S

o holds the serpent.   Spenser alludes to Ariadne’s crown, though he has made some mistakes in his mythology. It was at th

ds we feel disposed to regret the change, and to think that the heart has lost as much as the head has gained by the substi

the change, and to think that the heart has lost as much as the head has gained by the substitution. The poet Wordsworth t

overthrow of the beautiful mythology of ancient times in a way which has called forth an answer from a Christian poet, Mrs

e nymph that she deprived him of sight. Our countryman, J. R. Lowell, has taken this story for the subject of one of his sh

, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint.” J. R. Lowell has chosen the Shepherd of King Admetus for the subje

recian poet Sophocles. Mrs. Jameson, in her Characteristics of Women, has compared her character with that of Cordelia, in

The following is the lamentation of Antigone over Œdipus, when death has at last relieved him from his sufferings: — “Ala

come to seek my wife, whose opening years the poisonous viper’s fang has brought to an untimely end. Love has led me here,

years the poisonous viper’s fang has brought to an untimely end. Love has led me here, Love, a god all powerful with us who

incurring a penalty for a thoughtless glance.   The story of Orpheus has furnished Pope with an illustration of the power

if a lightning bolt had struck them. “We meant to murder him, and he has become a god. O Earth, open and receive us!” Then

; he treads the path of life secure from us. But woe! woe! to him who has done the deed of secret murder. We the fearful fa

power of the Eumenides! The pious poet shall be avenged! the murderer has informed against himself. Seize the man who utter

arded his sheep and lambs from the wild beasts. The story of Endymion has a peculiar charm from the human meaning which it

her sisters that they have looked pale ever since.   Mr.  Longfellow has a poem on the Occultation of Orion. The following

g up the narrow gorge, Fixed his blank eyes upon the sun.” Tennyson has a different theory of the Pleiads: — “Many a nig

iver retains the name of Acis.   Dryden, in his Cymon and Iphigenia, has told the story of a clown converted into a gentle

hered away, while fresh branches sprang from the roots.   Wordsworth has taken the story of Protesilaus and Laodamia for t

king’s son Pylades, and formed with him that ardent friendship which has become proverbial. Electra frequently reminded he

lieved him from his bonds.   The imagination of a modern poet, Keats, has discovered for us the thoughts that passed throug

swimming to reach the land.   Fenelon, in his romance of Telemachus, has given us the adventures of the son of Ulysses in

for the weary still a haven smiles,     Though the fair goddess long has ceased to weep,     And o’er her cliffs a fruitle

kinsman, Polydore, here murdered with many arrows, from which a bush has grown, nourished with my blood.” These words reca

tune showed his face, To chide the winds and save the Trojan race, So has your Highness, raised above the rest, Storms of a

freer air, and saw all objects clothed in a purple light. The region has a sun and stars of its own. The inhabitants were

ains of music. They were in a laurel grove, whence the great river Po has its origin, and flows out among men. Here dwelt t

ldhood. So in proportion to the time which the union of body and soul has lasted is the impurity contracted by the spiritua

row up my stream; I will lead you to Evander, the Arcadian chief, he has long been at strife with Turnus and the Rutulians

t I propose to ally you with a people numerous and rich, to whom fate has brought you at the propitious moment. The Etrusca

in prospect. Nor can I be the cause of such grief to your mother, who has chosen to be here in the camp with you rather tha

wed Evander into Italy. The poet says of him with simple pathos which has made the words proverbial, “He fell, unhappy, by

of which the universe was constructed. How he conceived this process has never been satisfactorily explained. He traced th

brated for luxury and effeminacy as Crotona for the reverse. The name has become proverbial. J. R. Lowell uses it in this s

l work in prose and rhyme,     And praise thee more in both Than bard has honored beech or lime,     On that Thessalian gro

called Cronos, (Time,) which may truly be said to destroy whatever it has brought into existence. The story of Io is interp

r the care of some particular divinity. Wordsworth, in his Excursion, has beautifully developed this view of Grecian mythol

would therefore be more correct to say that the mythology of a nation has sprung from all these sources combined than from

d left arm. It is supposed to represent the god in the moment when he has shot the arrow to destroy the monster Python. (Se

aterials for his art. With exquisite taste, simplicity, and pathos he has narrated the fabulous traditions of early ages, a

re that which is appropriate; he rejects the superfluous; and when he has completed his work, it is neither defective nor r

nought. Come when it will that day Which o’er the body, not the mind, has sway, And snatch the remnant of my life away, My

n fruit or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums. When it has lived five hundred years, it builds itself a nest

forth, destined to live as long a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and gained sufficient strength, it lifts

s strength makes frequent excursions with a load on his back. When he has gained sufficient confidence in his own vigor, he

here were no more in the world.”   Dryden in one of his early poems has this allusion to the Phœnix: — “So when the new-

and unapproachable monster? There is an old saying that “every thing has its enemy” — and the cockatrice quailed before th

ving finished his work, seems to be regarded as no longer active, and has now only one temple in India, while Mahadeva and

o their cost, when they see it hurled against them in the air, for it has split many a skull of their fathers and kindred.

tricating them out of the danger by his cunning, wit, and skill. Loki has three children. The first is the wolf Fenris, the

nto that deep ocean by which the earth is surrounded. But the monster has grown to such an enormous size that holding his t

e recognized, for her body is half flesh color and half blue, and she has a dreadfully stern and forbidding countenance. Th

nd that the gods would not release him, he bit off Tyr’s hand, and he has ever since remained one-handed. How Thor Paid

eed not ask thy name, for I know that thou art the god Thor. But what has become of my glove?” Thor then perceived that wha

eet lifted up, seeing which Thor made no further attempt. “This trial has turned out,” said Utgard-Loki, “just as I imagine

d crone, my nurse Elli, and let Thor wrestle with her if he will. She has thrown to the ground many a man not less strong t

but when thou comest to the shore thou wilt perceive how much the sea has sunk by thy draughts. Thou didst perform a feat n

Odin, offered to undertake the journey. Odin’s horse, Sleipnir, which has eight legs and can outrun the wind, was then led

lain. The gods and their enemies having fallen in battle, Surtur, who has killed Freyr, darts fire and flames over the worl

; as for success in war or for relief from dangerous diseases. Caesar has given a detailed account of the manner in which t

eople to his sway, persecuted them with great cruelty. This tradition has furnished the poet Gray with the subject of his c

by dangerous seas, and possessing no sources of internal wealth, Iona has obtained an imperishable place in history as the

re the aid of celestial armor if he were invulnerable? 17. Tennyson has chosen Œnone as the subject of a short poem; but

17. Tennyson has chosen Œnone as the subject of a short poem; but he has omitted the most poetical part of the story, the

xclamation, “ Not such aid nor such defenders does the time require,” has become proverbial. See Prov. Exp. page 478. 20.

verbial. See Prov. Exp. page 478. 20. Tennyson in the Lotus-eaters has charmingly expressed the dreamy, languid feeling

ology is simply a phase in the growth of language, the study of which has explained many things in mythology which hitherto

“ The task of analyzing and comparing the myths of the Aryan nations has opened to me a source of unqualified delight. I f

e of unqualified delight. I feel bound to avow the conviction that it has done more. It has removed not a few perplexities,

elight. I feel bound to avow the conviction that it has done more. It has removed not a few perplexities, and has solved no

ion that it has done more. It has removed not a few perplexities, and has solved not a few difficulties which press hard on

s solved not a few difficulties which press hard on many thinkers. It has raised and strengthened my faith in the goodness

. It has raised and strengthened my faith in the goodness of God, and has justified the wisdom which has chosen to educate

d my faith in the goodness of God, and has justified the wisdom which has chosen to educate mankind through impressions pro

they saw and heard in the countries where they lived. This key which has unlocked almost all the secrets of mythology was

ll the secrets of mythology was given us by Professor Max Müller, who has done more than all other writers to bring out the

ers of the people who speak it.’ Philology, or the study of language, has assisted students of mythology in two ways; first

into the same root-word, or to a root of the same meaning. “Philology has enabled us to read the primitive thoughts of mank

y heathen conception of deity in which we are likely to be interested has three distinct characters: — “I. It has a physica

e are likely to be interested has three distinct characters: — “I. It has a physical character. It represents some of the g

sing and setting of the sun, the tides of the sea, and so on. “II. It has an ethical character, and represents in its histo

s physically the sea; morally, the supreme power of passion. “III. It has a personal character, and is realized in the mind

y lived exempt from disease or old age, from toils and warfare. Moore has given us the “Song of the Hyperborean,” beginning

lack, and holds an inverted torch; while Sleep is robed in white, and has for his symbol the poppy. 4. Sitting beneath a tr

the misty veil through which her brother is about to appear. When he has burst forth in all the glorious light of day, Eos

er is a favorite emblem of constancy. Moore uses it: “The heart that has truly loved never forgets,     But as truly loves

to the assistance of Troy, and was slain by Achilles*. Since then Eos has wept without ceasing for her darling son, and her

*. He afterwards became king of Egypt, and built Memphis. “This myth has received many embellishments, for the wanderings

is generally represented holding a two-pronged sceptre. He sometimes has keys in his hand, to intimate that whoever enters

ionate and even benevolent, deities gained ground. Poetical mythology has associated this transformation with the instituti

of summer bears a sheaf of corn, whilst the personification of autumn has her hands filled with clusters of grapes and othe

a lovely boy, with rounded limbs, and a merry, roguish expression. He has golden wings, and a quiver slung over his shoulde

, that he dug a hole in the ground and whispered into it, “King Midas has the ears of an ass.” Some reeds sprung up from th

d left arm. It is supposed to represent the god in the moment when he has shot the arrow to destroy the monster, Python. Th

s. She wears a short robe, and her feet are covered with buskins. She has a quiver of arrows slung over her shoulder, and c

Muse of comedy. She carries in her right hand a shepherd’s crook, and has a comic mask beside her. Polyhymnia* was the Mus

ainable, he, too, pined away from grief; and the flower named for him has ever since continued an emblem of heartless beaut

c of variegated hues; her sandals are bright as burnished silver; she has golden wings; and wherever she appears, a, radian

cing the instrument called syrinx, or Pandean pipes. “Here mythology has simply inverted history and while, in an account

ous gift. Dionysus directed him to bathe in the river Pactolus, which has ever since washed down gold in its sands. Silenus

elderly man, with blunt nose, bald head, and hairy body. He generally has a satyr on each side supporting his half-drunken

n-tide of life he walks on two feet, and in the evening, when old age has stolen upon him, he needs a staff for a support,

aculous manner, — the ground opened and he disappeared. “This legend has localized a number of phrases which described ori

are only different forms of the same person, and this personification has grown out of the phrases which originally describ

e and the traces of the conflagration have been found. Dr. Schliemann has excavated the legendary site. We can scarcely tel

r kinsman Polydore, here murdered with many arrows, from which a bush has grown, nourished with my blood.” Æneas recollecte

is tail double.” Ovid* says he is of various colors. Plutarch says he has a crescent on his right side. These superstitions

d to Varuna are addressed to him simply as a name for the One God who has made and who governs all things. Varuna is found

ving finished his work, seems to be regarded as no longer active, and has now only one temple in India, while Mahadeva, or

e sights and sounds of the material world. The Scandinavian mythology has none of the grace and poetic beauty which charact

praying that God will render his gift prosperous to those to whom He has given it. They drink the water in which it has be

embodiment of wisdom. The fair complexion always given to these gods has reference to the white light of the dawn. Their l

ceded by the dawn (the virgin mother), which fades as soon as the sun has risen.” Brinton . “Neither the redskin nor th

These stories owe their existence to the romantic turn of mind which has always characterized the Aryan, whose civilizatio

ust and praise: and in reading the Scriptures they perceive, that God has forbidden the worship of images. They must natura

world, the prince of peace, while mankind enjoyed a memorable peace, has often been noticed as a remarkable occurrence. W

a easily allured to trust herself to the god in his assumed form? Who has given a fine description of the flight of Europa

herself to die instead of her husband. This act of generous devotion has often been commended. It is asserted by the poets

ning flight.      Now the chariot stops: the god On our grassy world has trod; Like a Titan steppeth he, Yet full of his d

use, and hang it up in the temple of Venus, as if they had said. Time has robbed me of my beauty; I only see in this mirror

ould spend half the year with her in the infernal regions. This fable has the same meaning with that of Proserpine herself.

Paul has been diffused all over the world, while that of the heathens has passed away like a dream of the night. The second

of the shrine-maker at Ephesus? How were the Ephesians appeased? What has taken place in the world in regard to Paganism? W

s of music. Terpsichore, or the amusing, presided over the dance. She has always a smiling countenance: and one foot lightl

f destruction. These subordinate deities were not all which mythology has recorded. There were various tribes of nymphs: th

e ancients presume that the punishment of the wicked was eternal? How has Virgil described Hades, or Hell? Judges of th

ort them, give them opportunity to reform. The pain which their guilt has caused is sufficient to induce them to be virtuou

——— Comus and Momus were social divinities. The English poet Milton has made all readers of poetry acquainted with Comus.

den Age, that she might dwell among men; but, says the mythology, she has sometimes been driven into solitudes, and now com

titude to their deliverer; they admire his generosity and courage; he has exposed his life for their security; he has endan

enerosity and courage; he has exposed his life for their security; he has endangered himself, but he has preserved them. Th

xposed his life for their security; he has endangered himself, but he has preserved them. They delight to remember his extr

e done to the criminal or the breakers of laws. The right which a man has to keep his own property separately from others i

— Man, in the morning of life, walks upon his hands and feet; when he has grown to maturity, which is the noon or middle of

th? Who resolved to bury Polynices? What was the end of Antigone? Who has celebrated the death and character of Antigone? W

perceiving their purpose, a battle ensued. Castor killed Lynceus, and has killed Pollux. Castor, being a son of Jupiter, fo

fatal arrows, among others, Paris, who had caused the war. Sophocles has made a drama of the history of Philoctetes, at Le

o much did Orestes and Pylades love each other, that their friendship has become a proverb. To love like Pylades and Orest

of war. It is hardly probable that this story is exactly true, but it has certainly many parallels among nations not taught

unhappily lost in the crowd. According to Virgil, the Roman poet, who has written the history of Eneas in the poem called t

lowers to fight their battles. A king of England or France, though he has not the absolute power of ancient kings, rules a

at, a sacred Hindu poem. His appearance is gorgeous and brilliant. He has a thousand heads; and on each of them is a crown

t is of surprising magnificence: It is surrounded by a high wall, and has three entrances. At the eastern gate are two very

s, which is yet encouraged by the Brahmins, and which civil authority has not been able effectually to check. The Hindus of

religious services to certain animals. They believe that Vishnu, who has already been incarnate nine times, in different f

it, or sacred language, in which their books of religion are written, has long ceased to be a spoken tongue; and is underst

time began; Ere worlds there were, or gods, or man; No mortal tongue has ever said, What hand unknown laid Vala dead. But

n the shaggy monster lies. See the serpent weakly crawling;     Thor has bruised its loathsome head! Lo the stars from hea

d its loathsome head! Lo the stars from heaven are falling!     Earth has sunk in ocean’s bed! Glorious Sun! thy beams are

ly received, and where, either in the Catholic or Protestant form, it has since been cherished. The Hell of the Druids was

? Who was Dagon, and the other principal gods of the Philistines? How has Milton noticed the Syrian gods; Moloch; Chemos; T

governing power in the universe? Was Mithras a benevolent deity? How has an English poet described the worship of the Pers

he beginning; who lifted their lofty heads to his own heaven, and who has fixed the everlasting hills that they cannot be r

e from the Parthenon. “Thus,” says Dr. Clark, “the form of the temple has sustained a greater injury than it had already ex

1 every portion of the sculpture, by which it is so highly decorated, has all the delicacy of a cameo.” 12 The immense quan

pectator, who for the first time approaches it, finds that nothing he has read can give any idea of the effect produced in

at was sculptured upon it? What statue adorned the Parthenon, and how has that fabric been impaired? What further injury ha

Parthenon, and how has that fabric been impaired? What further injury has the Parthenon sustained? From what places was the

hipped they knew not whom, we have reason to thank God always that he has given us a true religion, while it has pleased hi

on to thank God always that he has given us a true religion, while it has pleased him to leave millions of mankind for so m

y the Messiah; who only laid aside the ceremonies of his country, but has preserved through all time, the piety and virtue,

e lived in that land the happiest and brightest nation that the world has known. In those days men did not think of things

not be afraid of him,” said Pluto, smiling. “He will harm no one who has the right to pass him.” But Proserpina could not

re her and were her subjects; but her face was pale, and they say she has never been known to smile, nor will she eat anyth

in thought, and Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, said, “If Proserpina has eaten anything in the underworld, she cannot retu

im he sent down to the underworld with messages to Pluto. Now Mercury has winged sandals on his feet and a winged cap upon

and he sails through the air more swiftly than any bird. Besides, he has a magic wand with two snakes twisted about it, an

that nothing shall grow upon the earth?” said Ceres, in wonder. “Who has done this?” Then suddenly the meadows seemed to b

en fire from heaven, he grew very stern. “Prometheus is brave, but he has done wrong to steal the sacred fire,” said Jupite

d top. “What a marvelous box!” she would say to herself. “What joy it has brought the world! I wonder — I wonder what it is

id,” she would think. “What evil can there be in so blessed a box? It has made the whole world happy. It must be good.” The

side, and had changed happy cities into places of utter misery. “What has caused all this woe?” they would ask Epimetheus;

iresias could tell future events. “Alcmena,” said the seer, “your son has power that is more than human. He will be a great

l be found among my friends to die for me — some old man, may be, who has not long to live in any case.” Yet, sweet as was

urn and rushed across the sky almost to the southern horizon. “Helios has gone mad,” men whispered, as they watched the zig

ble manner. The enemy of my child wished to kill us both, but Jupiter has brought us here. Help us, therefore, I beseech yo

y, but in the evening he came to the ice cliffs, where the North Wind has his home. Here also live the Grææ, and Perseus so

rted for the door, but the other Gorgons sprang up with a shriek. “He has come!” they cried, and spreading their swift wing

she said, “and go to Athens to your father, King Ægeus, for the time has come when I must lose you.” Next day Theseus was

of their grief. “Alas, sir,” said an old man, “it is because the time has now returned when we must send seven of our young

are in sore need of aid. Many are slain and many wounded, and Hector has driven them back almost to the ships.” But the he

s know the sorrows of defeat to the uttermost for the wrong Agamemnon has done me. Take, therefore, my armor, and put it on

t, “Ho, Cyclops, you who eat the strangers within your gates, Jupiter has made you pay well for your cruelty.” In his rage

as a protection, gave him a stalk of the plant the gods call Moly. It has a black root and a white blossom, and is very har

black root and a white blossom, and is very hard to find, but he who has it can never be bewitched. Ulysses soon came to t

s long since dead. Your son, Telemachus, is now almost a man, so long has it been. Consider well, for we all shall remain i

mæus; “and I fear that his good son, Telemachus, will perish, too. He has gone to Pylos for news of his father, and even no

o go, she said: — “Stranger, your words have touched me deeply. Never has there come to the palace a wanderer who has talke

touched me deeply. Never has there come to the palace a wanderer who has talked so wisely and well.” Then she went up to h

s, fearing a quarrel with the suitors. “I shall see that the stranger has fair play.” Penelope heeded her son’s words and l

enelope. She found her asleep. “Awake, Penelope!” she cried. “Ulysses has come. With his own hand he has slain the suitors.

“Awake, Penelope!” she cried. “Ulysses has come. With his own hand he has slain the suitors. Come and see him yourself.” Pe

me_heathen-mythology_1842_img000b Preface. Upon a subject which has occupied the thoughts, and employed the pens of o

ved them to be religious, we regard but as poetical. Leigh Hunt, who has said many things upon Mythology, quite as beautif

shing awe, and a path as from one world to another.” G. Moir Bussey has also observed, with much elegance and feeling: —

n poetry, in war, or in dominion.” The reality of an every day world has now set its seal upon all that delighted the days

wood, were peopled; and the air, with things So lovely — why, ah! why has science grave     Scattered afar your secret imag

_1842_img001 In the earlier part of the history of nations, Mythology has always been found to exist; imaginary beings have

ation those fierce and savage spirits, who would destroy a world that has so long been the treasury of the arts! a world, i

would imagine or relate, they must be calculated for other uses. What has a great weight with me is, that many of these fab

ble is easy of explanation. Time is the child of heaven and earth; he has wings because he flies rapidly, a scythe because

his course equally; and the serpent is the symbol of eternity, which has neither a beginning nor an end. He slew his fathe

lict the human race. Hope alone remained at the bottom, and that only has the power of easing the labours of man, and rende

f vanity on all, That men have deemed substantial since the fall, Yet has the wondrous virtue to educe, From emptiness itse

sionately cried, ‘Doomed in that pool for ever to abide!’ The Goddess has her wish ——” Ovid. Insérer image anonyme_heathe

ly spot, where she threw herself on the earth, whispering “King Midas has the ears of an ass, King Midas has the ears of an

the earth, whispering “King Midas has the ears of an ass, King Midas has the ears of an ass.” Not long after her visit, so

lace; and as the wind passed through them, they repeated, “King Midas has the ears of an ass.” Enraged, no less than terrif

head of Pentheus in one hand, and in the other a great knife. Another has a spear with its pine cane, which was the thyrsus

r tresses on her shoulder. Description of the Anadyomine Venus. “She has just issued from the bath, and yet is animated wi

crifices, were daily offered to him. ————— “Bright-winged child! Who has another care when thou hast smiled? Unfortunates

called “pallein.” According to the different characters in which she has appeared, has the goddess been represented. Usual

in.” According to the different characters in which she has appeared, has the goddess been represented. Usually with a helm

nerva in the Florence Gallery. “The head is of the highest beauty. It has a close helmet from which the hair, delicately pa

touch once more, and for the last time, the strings of the lyre which has so often cheered me: let the last moments of my l

is generally represented as holding a trident with three prongs, and has a key in his hand, to intimate that whoever enter

omb. I have looked o’er the hills of the stormy north, And the larch has hung all his tassels forth, The fisher is out in

y sea, And the rein-deer bounds o’er the pastures free, And the fence has a fringe of softer green, And the moss looks brig

ers and fruits, by the sweetness of his breath. Companion of love, he has the figure of a youth, and the wings of a butterf

as the whirlpool of Charybdis, on the coast of Sicily, and from which has arisen the proverb, “By avoiding Charybdis we fal

eads. Their dresses are differently described by some authors. Clotho has on a variegated robe, and on her head a crown of

l day within the wild flower’s heart, Steal out the thoughts the soul has kept In silence and apart: And voices we have pin

ssed the blight Of fell disease: wait, wait one moment more, Thy hand has touched it, Death, and hope is o’er. Thou turn’s

ccustomed companion of night, inhabits the lower regions, though Ovid has placed his palace in the cold Scythia. —————— “I

Of earth, and broad expanse of ocean waves, Placid to man. The other has a heart Of iron; yea, the heart within his breast

Manes. The Manes was a name applied generally to the soul after it has separated from the body, and were among the infer

long, I have not ceased to love you, Household Gods! O ye whom youth has ‘wildered on your way, Or vice with fair mask’d f

asserted, that the beautiful trio remained unwedded; Homer, however, has given Sleep to the youngest as a husband. During

ymen. This child of Venus and Bacchus presided over marriages, and has the appearance of a beautiful youth, holding a to

an inhuman deed, And in compassion, make a father bleed. Yes, she who has the kindest, tenderest heart, Is foremost to perf

ur but a dream Lost in the Ocean of her gentle charms.” Thurlow. He has received many surnames and epithets, either from

eign, Fatigued at length, suspends her harsh commands, Yet no fatigue has slacked these valiant hands; But now, new plagues

ed, when Cepheus ran and said; ‘Hold, brother, hold, what brutal rage has made Your frantic mind so black a crime conceive?

, looked on the maid, And looked and loved, and was beloved again. He has just flung her starry crown on high, And bade it

ed Hippolytus, and art thou Phædra?     Phæ. I am thy Phædra! Theseus has my hand, But thou, Hippolytus, thou hast my heart

and Saturn, is the parent of Justice and of Virtue. The great Apelles has represented her, in his painting of Calumny, unde

hood, arises crushed hearts and broken friendships — while of Envy it has well been remarked, “Open your heart once to rece

our ashes in one urn confined, Whom love at first, and fate at last, has joined. Thou tree, where now one lifeless lump is

nct upon the tide; On rushed she in that desperate energy, Which only has to know, and knowing, die — — It was Leander!”

Cornwall. Sappho and Phaon. The story of Sappho and of Phaon has become almost, if not quite as well known, as tha

same number. In addition to the alphabet, by which the name of Cadmus has become renowned, he introduced likewise, the wors

more so to give a plausible explanation of apparent incongruities: it has , however, been suggested, that the dragon’s fable

an Trinity, is considered as the preserver of the world, which Brahma has created out of nothingness. He descended on the e

is waist; the sword and the lance sparkle in his hands, and the tiger has taken the place of the bull; while his body assum

tand, under the title of Bouddhism, and with whom ‌christianity alone has the power of claiming an equal number of follower

the Supreme priest of one of the great parties of this church, which has its principal home in Thibet; and the veneration

on of his person and his arms, his family, attendants and attributes, has new and peculiar characteristics. Insérer image a

ent strife of nature, is caused by the struggle which Thor constantly has with a famous serpent, whose vast folds embrace t

rs. His face, severe and frightful, is marked with two blue lines. He has two vast wings formed like a bat, and the feet of

ason for this absence of homage is stated by them to be, that the god has uttered a curse upon those who shall attempt to s

efore us, have been given with as much accuracy as the lapse of ‌ages has permitted. We have sought the hidden beauties of

merican, we can only say, that we hope to them, as to us, the subject has excited interest, and that a perusal of the fable

und is forc’d, the notes are few! William Blake. Preface. It has long been evident to me that much of our best Eng

erience of English and classical teachers in the schools of the state has attested the wisdom of the requirement; but the d

the demand for some text-book adapted to the needs of the class-room has made necessary the preparation of this volume. Fo

tal narratives with illustrations from English literature, — while it has delighted one generation of American boys and gir

. ickery (Publisher and Art Dealer, 224 Post St., San Francisco), who has lent me many photographs and engravings of works

thread of surer knowledge whose surest strand is sympathy. The study has led men soberly to trace the progress of their ki

ery race, and through all time. And, so, the knowledge of mythic lore has led men broadly to appreciate the motives and con

lcestis, by some curious wonder in Pausanias, or some woe in Hyginus, has waked to the consciousness of artistic fancy and

feared so much to wring its withers that in most children the memory has grown too soft for saddling. In our apprehension

n facts, pure moral and religious ideas, and true poetic conceptions, has forgotten, with the lapse of time, the significan

crude dreams and fancies about experience, life, the world, and God, has gradually developed truer and higher conceptions

called Chronos (Time), which may truly be said to destroy whatever it has brought into existence. The story of Io is interp

ific or philosophical import were invented by savages. Where the myth has every mark of great antiquity, — is especially si

ther, that God made his revelation in the beginning once for all, and has done nothing to help man toward righteousness sin

The reader must, however, guard against the supposition that any myth has sprung into existence fully equipped with physica

hough some historical myths may have descended from a mother race, it has already been demonstrated (§ 7.1) that the histor

ut are not traceable to the same original germ. The Aryan germ-theory has , however, the merit of explaining resemblances be

he Odyssey seems to have refined the stories into poetic gold; Hesiod has gathered them in the ore like so many specimens f

opular, epic. The myths concerning the founding of Rome, which Vergil has received from earlier writers, he has here fused

founding of Rome, which Vergil has received from earlier writers, he has here fused into a literary epic. But what the Æne

aterials for his art. With exquisite taste, simplicity, and pathos he has narrated the fabulous traditions of early ages, a

re that which is appropriate; he rejects the superfluous, and when he has completed his work, it is neither defective nor r

gical records of the Norse are the Eddas and the Sagas. The word Edda has usually been connected with the Icelandic for gre

usually been connected with the Icelandic for great-grandmother;35 it has also been regarded as a corruption of the High Ge

n folk-songs and in the Nibelungenlied, or Lay of the Nibelungs, that has grown out of them. The Norse form of the story ex

d the stanzaic form of the Nibelungenlied, the epic must be his.48 It has also been urged that the poem, having been writte

er as to the chronological precedence. The Great Feud of the Bhâratas has the air of superior antiquity because of the nume

a prince who, succumbing to a weakness common to his contemporaries, has gambled away his kingdom. The Great Feud of the B

innocent wife. The resemblance between the plot and that of the Iliad has inclined some scholars to derive the Indian from

son of the mighty Jove — to release him.60 By his demeanor Prometheus has become the ensample of magnanimous endurance, and

; The empty distance she will fold In purple gauze; the warm glow she has kissed Along the chilling mist: Cheating and chea

ucting a Soul to Charon. [Terra-cotta relief: Arch. Zeit.] Here life has death for neighbor, And far from eye or ear Wan w

dwell beside their brother, Death, along the Western Sea. Their abode has two gates, — one of ivory, whence issue false and

put on the semblance of what thing I will. But ‘tis love of thee that has compelled me to measure out so great a space of t

anch the wound and retain the flitting life, but in vain. As when one has broken the stem of a lily in the garden it hangs

te of all. Say, does the seed scorn earth and seek the sun? Surely it has no other end and aim Than to drop, once more die

s solemnly replied, “Not yet Is it allowable thou hear the things She has to tell thee; let evanish quite That consecration

d of reeds springing up in the meadow began whispering the story, and has continued to do so from that day to this, every t

arrows fly true to the mark; but alas! an arrow more fatal than mine has pierced my heart! I am the god of medicine, and k

lp me, Peneüs! open the earth to enclose me, or change my form, which has brought me into this danger!” Scarcely had she sp

embarked In a laurel, as she thought — but (ah, how Fate mocks!) She has found it by this time a very bad box; Let hunters

as Moore uses the flower as an emblem of constancy: — The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on

. Fair was the form of Cypris while Adonis was living, but her beauty has died with Adonis! Woe, woe for Cypris, the mounta

idowed is Cytherea, and idle are the Loves along the halls! With thee has the girdle of my beauty perished. For why, ah, ov

and imprinted kisses on the cold lips. “O, Pyramus,” she cried, “what has done this? It is thine own Thisbe that speaks.” A

ained with blood and the scabbard empty of its sword. “Thine own hand has slain thee, and for my sake,” she said. “I, too,

le. The most famous exploit of the Messenger, the slaughter of Argus, has already been narrated.195 Chapter XI. Myths

d Eurydice.206 — Of mortals who have visited Hades and returned, none has a sweeter or sadder history than Orpheus, son of

nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.”226 Many a poet has lamented the change. For even if the head did pro

o much with us.” 227 Schiller, also, by his poem, The Gods of Greece, has immortalized his sorrow for the decadence of the

, the Oreads and the Naiads were immortal. The love of Pan for Syrinx has already been mentioned, and his musical contest w

verses, sacred for Diana, or some other divinity. “Dian white-arm’d has given me this cool shrine,233 Deep in the bosom

; he treads the path of life secure from us. But woe! woe! to him who has done the deed of secret murder. We, the fearful b

anes of Ibycus !” A dark object sailed across the sky. “The murderer has informed against himself,” shouted the assemblage

thou depart when sweet sleep lets me go, fleeing me like an ewe that has seen the gray wolf. I fell in love with thee, mai

g to the sea, he there discovers the body of Scylla, whom the goddess has not transformed, but drowned; and learns that if

after nine days, examine the bodies of the cattle slain, and see what has befallen.” Aristseus faithfully obeyed these dire

ting it as her symbol, named it Cornucopia. No writer in modern times has made more graceful poetic use of the divinities o

s made more graceful poetic use of the divinities of the streams than has Milton. The following song, chanted by a Spirit i

one moved, nor spake.320 Of this fearful sequel to the hunt, Althæa has heard nothing. As she bears thank-offering to the

s expires with the family of Œdipus. But the wedding gear of Harmonia has not yet fulfilled its baleful mission. Amphiaraüs

il, evil speedily. Therefore, the story of Theseus and Ariadne, which has already been recounted, was here displayed in cun

iving place to fresh branches that sprang from the roots. Wordsworth has taken the story of Protesilaüs and Laodamia for a

p with the king’s son Pylades, and formed with him a friendship which has become proverbial. Electra frequently reminded he

tie them under the benches of his ship. Tennyson in the Lotos-eaters has charmingly expressed the dreamy, languid feeling

kinsman, Polydore, here murdered with many arrows, from which a bush has grown, nourished with my blood.” These words reca

ains of music. They were in a laurel grove, whence the great river Po has its origin, and flows out among men. Here dwelt t

ldhood. So in proportion to the time which the union of body and soul has lasted, is the impurity contracted by the spiritu

row up my stream; I will lead thee to Evander the Arcadian chief. He has long been at strife with Turnus and the Rutulians

I propose to ally thee with a people numerous and rich, to whom fate has brought thee at the propitious moment. The Etrusc

in prospect. Nor can I be the cause of such grief to thy mother, who has chosen to be here in the camp with thee rather th

wed Evander into Italy. The poet says of him with simple pathos which has made the words proverbial, “He fell, unhappy, by

o their cost, when they see it hurled against them in the air, for it has split many a skull of their fathers and kindred.

tricating them out of the danger by his cunning, wit, and skill. Loki has three children. The first is the wolf Fenris, the

in that deep ocean by which the earth is surrounded. But the monster has grown to such an enormous size that holding his t

gods would not release him, he bit off Tyr’s hand. Tyr, consequently, has ever since remained onehanded. § 180. The Deeds o

eed not ask thy name, for I know that thou art the god Thor. But what has become of my glove?” Thor then perceived that wha

et lifted up, seeing which Thor made no further attempt. “This trial has turned out,” said Utgard-Loki, “just as I imagine

d crone, my nurse Elli, and let Thor wrestle with her if h6 will. She has thrown to the ground many a man not less strong t

but when thou comest to the shore thou wilt perceive how much the sea has sunk by thy draughts. Thou didst perform a feat n

lain. The gods and their enemies having fallen in battle, Surter, who has killed Freyr, darts fire and flames over the worl

cribed in a conversation held between Balder and Hermod, after Hermod has a second time ridden to Hel: — And the fleet-foo

Musæus, as late as 500 a.d. This poem contains admirable verses, and has a “pretty” fancy. Translations of Greek Poets. —

9; see also Roscher 13: 2127), and the Juno of Lanuvium. § 35. Athene has some characteristics of the warlike kind in commo

thenon, or temple of Minerva, at Athens. The Minerva of the Parthenon has disappeared; but there is good ground to believe

eating Mars. § 36. While the Latin god Mars corresponds with Ares, he has also not a few points of similarity with the Gree

d left arm. It is restored to represent the god in the moment when he has shot the arrow to destroy the monster Python. The

rrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight; The shaft has just been shot — the arrow bright With an immorta

e’e set her both his eyes; She won, and Cupid blind did rise. O love! has she done this to thee? What shall (alas) become o

Astarte, and translate her name “the dark, or obscured one.” But she has undoubtedly a connection with the earth, perhaps

“To stone the gods have changed her, but in vain; The sculptor’s art has made her breathe again.” There is a headless dau

, innate in the human heart, that somewhere and at some time some god has lived as a man among men and for the good of men.

sibly, this fable of the underground course of Alpheüs that Coleridge has in mind in his dream of Kubla Khan: — “In Xanadu

ative. — Pleiads: Milton, P. L. 7: 374; Pope, Spring 102; Mrs. Hemans has verses on the same subject; Byron, “Like the lost

the butterfly, bursting on brilliant wings from the tomb in which it has lain, after a dull, grovelling, caterpillar exist

nd Psyche of E. Neide is a sentimental, simpering conception. A. Zick has also a Psyche. § 95. According to another traditi

ntly, like an omen of Spring, just before Winter closes in. The fable has , however, its moral significance also, being conn

only by the initiated, and were invested with a veil of secrecy which has never been fully withdrawn. The initiates passed

s, as a dragon, threatens to swallow; or some historic character that has passed into myth. Compare the contests of Perseus

a kick from the hoof of Pegasus. This horse belongs to the Muses, and has from time immemorial been ridden by the poets. Fr

g, as worthy of consideration and admiration. The dramatist Euripides has portrayed him as a great-hearted hero, high-spiri

ppiness where sorrow had obtained. No grander conception of manliness has in modern times found expression in poetry than t

aiden.” She is the human counterpart of the huntress Diana. The story has , of course, been allegorically explained, but it

n, because (1) the general method followed by the unravellers of myth has already been sufficiently illustrated; (2) the at

Troy. § 171. The Odyssey: Lang, Sonnet, “As one that for aweary space has lain,” prefixed to Butcher and Lang’s Odyssey. Tr

cett (Putnam’s Mag. 14, 1869). Fénelon, in his romance of Telemachus, has given us the adventures of the son of Ulysses in

ic arrangements of four of the grandest musical dramas that the world has possessed: Rhine-Gold, Siegfried, The Valkyrias,

hese rules depend upon those of Syllabication): (1) A vowel generally has its long English sound when it ends a syllable: H

I′-o, Ca′-cus, I-tho′-me, E-do′-ni, My-ce′-næ. (2) A vowel generally has its short English sound in a syllable that ends i

nt: Her′-se, Sis′-y-phus, Pol-y-phe′-mus. But e in the termination es has its long sound: Her′mes, A-tri′-des. (3) The vowe

rmination es has its long sound: Her′mes, A-tri′-des. (3) The vowel a has an obscure sound when it ends an unaccented sylla

d g are soft before e, i, y, æ, and œ: Ce′-to, Ge′-ry-on, Gy′-ges; ch has the sound of k: Chi′-os; and c, s, and t, immedia

vowel, is not joined with the succeeding consonant, and consequently has the long sound: Pau-sā′-ni-as; De-mē′-tri-us. No

l or r) is not joined with the succeeding consonant, and consequently has the long sound: Jū′-pi-ter. All words have as man

wears the sun’s disk, and plumes. Her name means “Home of Horus.” She has characteristics of the Greek Aphrodite. Seth or

a manifestation of the supreme being in his work of preservation. He has nine times assumed human form, each incarnation h

n into the Infinite, of the Karma (human character, or soul) after it has passed through innumerable existences, and learne

exclamation, “Not such aid nor such defenders does the time require,” has become proverbial. Non tali auxilio nec defensor

ranslation by W. N. Lettsom, London, 1890. Werner Hahn’s Uebersetzung has also been used. 397. From Carlyle’s translation

r fawn looked at her with his large eyes, and sometimes fondly rested has head upon her shoulder, or cropped the rose she w

y with his wings, soon awaked him. “Cupid,” said Zephyrus to Somnus, “ has charged me to come hither, and request you would

oodness of this compassionate goddess; and she said, “Perhaps, as she has pitied the poor and ignorant, she will be graciou

beauty, as she was sometimes called, “that some power, to me unknown, has thought fit to interfere with my commands. You ha

withers the flower of beauty. My vexation at thy presumptuous conduct has robbed me of my colour. “Go to the dark dominions

than all the fruits and flowers in nature can match, and which grief has banished from her cheek.” Psyche knew that Proser

ere once my favourite haunts — and Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, has done this.” “Your pleasure, then,” replied the go

ay have your daughter,” answered Jupiter to her supplication, “if she has not tasted food, in the kingdom of Pluto; but if

ion, “if she has not tasted food, in the kingdom of Pluto; but if she has , she cannot be restored to you. But why do you wi

here will be no polenta for my supper. Look at that greedy woman, who has just come hither. She will eat up all that is in

es; it informs you of one of the modes of satisfying hunger which God has afforded to the people of Italy. You did not know

the figure of herself, and of Tereus cutting out her tongue. When she has finished her work, she made signs to the old woma

ow do we know any better than to kill one another? Mother. The Bible has taught us better. It teaches us, you know, not to

ou. Ask what you will; whatever your modest wishes desire, Providence has in store for you.” They looked at each other, and

dream,” she cried, “is false, or I will make it so. Some evil genius has sent it to torment me. I will go to my father. I

nt babe, caused us to be thrown into the waves, and some merciful god has saved our lives. But where am I? in what strange

ojects into the sea, not far from your palace; and that monster which has devoured some of your subjects, will come to that

ing and bite; and that her garments are stained with bleed, which she has drawn from innocent persons, because envious peop

and wild woods, to the smiling field and the sheltering cottage; and has stripped the bloody fur from his limbs, and wrapp

view. This famous statue stands in an apartment of the Vatican which has a singularly fine prospect. Ann. Who made the st

er, and saw in the sands these words, “I am Io, thy daughter; Jupiter has transformed me to this shape.” Inachus threw his

wledge that you were his son? “My mother, Clymene,” answered Phæton, “ has often told me that I was the son of Apollo; and I

“My dear son,” answered Clymene to this complaint, “this young prince has no more glorious ancestors than your own; as I ha

ppliant, “to entreat thee to declare thyself my father. The son of Io has vaunted that he is the offspring of a god, while

ess than could have been reasonably anticipated. The praises which it has received from Mr. Thirlwall and other competent j

our schools, and I felt that I could supply the deficiency. The event has more than justified my anticipation ; and the ado

ter people I intend to make the subject of a future work ; the former has for many years engaged the attention of my friend

ly amusement ; and it surely seems very absurd to say that the public has a right to be amused, to which right those of ind

on to what the proprietors have already made by it, and the copyright has yet twenty years to run. I applied in vain for so

rt term of copyright, let the public be the gainer ; and if an author has parted, or will part, with his copyright, let it

might easily become Arethusa. Possibly too Εἰλείθνια (p. 194), which has the form of a perf. part., may have come from ἠλθ

o Sidney by Psalm xix. 5. Tasso in his Rime Amorose (canz. viii. 25), has «Rose dico e viole, A cui madre è la Terra e pad

VI. 1. Demeter and Triptolemos in a chariot drawn by dragons ; he has in his chlamys the seed which he is to scatter ab

her ; a Genius hovers over her ; a female stands behind her. Heracles has his lion-skin and club ; a female with a thyrse s

Europe. 4. The desire to account for the phænomena of the moral world has also led to the invention of legends. Thus the la

place, such being the meaning of the old word hithe. But as this term has gone out of use, the honest fishermen there will

nd of Scandinavia. To these may be added that of ancient Egypt. Italy has left no mythology, properly speaking, though for

and other writers, whose names will appear in the following pages, it has in our opinion been reduced to its true principle

ecially on the physical theory. For the mythology of India philosophy has as yet done but little ; it has been the sport of

done but little ; it has been the sport of the wildest mysticism, and has led to the degradation of those of other countrie

absurdity to be found in the works of many mythologists, and nothing has tended more to the bringing of the science of myt

is commonly unknown, for the practice often continues after the cause has ceased ; and concerning superstitious ceremonies,

our and check inquiry. The rule should be, — this mythe most probably has a meaning, but it is possible it may not have one

nch of learning and philosophy. Of late years the mythology of Greece has in the hands of men of genius and learning, espec

s of the Christian æra83. Of this, however, the Homeric portion alone has come down to us : for our knowledge of the events

tragedians, framed a continuous narrative, of which an epitome alone has come down to us ; and Crates, Aristarchus, and th

spot the legends of the temples and the traditions of the people. He has thus preserved a number of mythic narratives unno

nto a swan (κύκνος)230. The age of this story is uncertain231, but it has all the appearance of being a physical mythe devi

s, and is by the appointment of Zeus the rearer of children, whom she has brought to see the light of day. This passage is,

an interpolation in the Theogony, with which it is not in harmony. It has all the appearance of being an Orphic composition

d time flows ; he devours his own children, and time destroys what it has brought into existence. Perhaps, as has been inge

hat in the eleventh book of Homer's Odyssey. The poet Claudian480 too has , with his usual elegance, drawn a luxuriant descr

in the procession of the Dædala, where a cow also was the victim. It has likewise been supposed, not without reason, that

w of reputation being gained by deeds of valour554. To the above tale has also been appended by later writers a legendary o

56 that Harmonia (Order) was the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite. This has evidently all the appearance of a physical mythe,

rogresses of Apollo was that given by the lyric poet Alcæus. The poem has unfortunately perished, but we find the following

s of expression. She wears the Cretan hunting-shoes (ἐνδρομίδϵς), and has her garment tucked up for speed. On her back she

of Louis XIV. In English, the amiable and accomplished Mrs. H. Tighe has narrated the tale of Psyche and her celestial lov

or on her arm, and the head of the Gorgon is on its centre. She often has bracelets and ear-rings, but her general air is t

akes the banks of the river or lake Tritôn the birth-place of Athena, has found a greater number of supporters ; but as so

20, the choice among them might seem difficult. The contest, however, has lain between the river or lake Tritôn in Libya an

nfully denied and its absurdity shown by the little fellow, who still has his cradle-clothes about him. Zeus however gives

851 or staff, with two serpents twined about it, and which sometimes has wings at its extremity. The ancient statues of He

omer, became a favourite theme with succeeding poets, after whom Ovid has related it882, and Claudian has sung it in a pecu

ith succeeding poets, after whom Ovid has related it882, and Claudian has sung it in a peculiar poem, of which unfortunatel

clad in black, with the head and mane of a horse900. This last legend has nothing perhaps very peculiar in it ; the former

et Euphoriôn907. The form of Demeter is copied from that of Hera. She has the same majestic stature and matronly air, but o

tella, or elsewhere ; and each is persuaded that by having done so he has secured the divine favour921. So the Greek who wa

54. In fact, this, like almost every other article of popular belief, has its origin in nature. There is music in the sound

m-roaming ; 3. Dark-skinned ; 4. Swift-footed. The Greek term ἐρινὺς has , we think, been justly defined1024 as a “feeling

s, that they may not be insulted with impunity1027 ; and when a horse has spoken in violation of the order of nature, the E

r to Ida, where taking the shape of a bird he sits in a tree till she has beguiled her lord. Sleep, having accomplished his

ed his task, speeds to the battle-field to inform Poseidôn of what he has done. The Latin poet Ovid1052, probably after som

h squinting eyes. They follow Mischief (Ἂτη), and tend those whom she has injured : but Ate is strong and firm-footed, and

Διώνυσος, Διόνυσος, Βάκχος. Liber. No deity of Grecian mythology has given occasion to greater mysticism than Dionysos

contains the following adventure of the god, — a tale which Ovid1090 has narrated somewhat differently. Dionysos once let

repertory of Bacchic fable, perhaps deserving of more attention than has hitherto been bestowed on it1116. The worship of

in similitude of nature ; whence he is called Pan, i. e. All : for he has horns in similitude of the rays of the sun and th

horns of the moon : his face is ruddy, in imitation of the æther : he has a spotted fawn-skin on his breast, in likeness of

rts are shaggy, on account of the trees, shrubs, and wild-beasts : he has goat’s feet, to denote the stability of the earth

easts : he has goat’s feet, to denote the stability of the earth : he has a pipe of seven reeds, on account of the harmony

nt of the harmony of the heaven, in which there are seven sounds : he has a crook, that is a curved staff, on account of th

a ruddy complexion. His cloak is filled with all kinds of fruits : he has a sithe in his hand, and usually a horn of plenty

which painters had been pleased to bestow on the marine deities : he has also a chariot drawn by the biped sea-horses. Hom

ther of those huge androphagous races, whom the invention of the poet has placed on the coast of Libya. Unlike the Cyclopes

s Scylla (Bitch), whose voice sounds like that of a young whelp : she has twelve feet, and six long necks, with a terrific

he resemblance between Thrinakia and Trinacria1404, a name of Sicily, has induced both ancients and moderns to acquiesce in

her mortal mingle with us : but this is some unfortunate wanderer who has come hither.” In another place, when noticing the

ight give, she supposes some one to say1424, “Is it some stranger who has strayed from his ship that she has taken under he

say1424, “Is it some stranger who has strayed from his ship that she has taken under her care, since there are no people n

t of original tradition, or the natural operation of the mind itself, has led almost all races to conceive the original sta

the human race, and particularly to impress the belief that when evil has attained its maximum the gods will destroy mankin

casionally exhibited by the old Grecian bards, and of which Simonides has left a notable instance1487. The points of resemb

ion and Fall of man. In like manner the important event of the Deluge has a place among the ancient Hellenic mythes ; but u

has a place among the ancient Hellenic mythes ; but unfortunately it has come down to us only in a late form, and apparent

ogy, properly so called, cannot be introduced into mythic history, it has however a chronology of its own, and may be divid

s life after the tragic fate of his children ; or, as another account has it, when the Argo was falling to pieces with time

After his death he was deified by the people of Ceos1645. Virgil1646 has elegantly related the story of the love of Aristæ

berties in their treatment of the ancient mythes. There is none which has suffered more at their hands than the present one

esponding to the nature of their sires. The mythe in every view of it has , we think, a physical aspect. Lycos and Nycteus a

and propounded one to the Thebans. It was this : “What is that which has one voice, is four-footed, two-footed, and at las

whose mental powers are perfect ; to whom, though dead, Persephoneia has granted reason, that he alone should have sense w

staff ; and he alone of the dead recognises the mortal hero before he has tasted the blood ; of which, however, he drinks p

ogy of this hero is of a very mixed character in the form in which it has come down to us. There is in it the identificatio

eing originally a Barbarian, has been naturalised among the Hellenes, has settled among us. We are of pure Hellenic blood,

d to Field-dwelling (Agraulos), the daughter of the land (Actæos). He has one son, Mildew (Erysichthon), who dies childless

ocne, others that Philomela was the nightingale1807. This last, which has the signification of the name in its favour1808,

re. We shall find it repeated in Pterilaos and Comætho, and every one has heard of the Roman Tarpeia1858. Ægeus is plainly

of the Egyptian theory, presently to be noticed, it is added, that Io has the same signification in Coptic1905. This hypoth

l. Nothing can be more certain than that he did not invent it, and it has every appearance of being a part of the original

Bœotian. There is no necessity for supposing two of the same name, as has usually been done. They are both, as we see, conn

enian legends by Thucydides, the introduction to whose admirable work has had too much influence on the minds of some moder

topography of western Greece. The cyclic poems have perished, as also has the Thebaïs of Antimachus ; but the Thebaïs of th

the Eumenides, is the only portion of his works on this subject which has reached us ; of Sophocles we have the Philoctetes

matter. Ovid gives the war a place in his Metamorphoses, and Statius has left an imperfect poem on the subject of Achilleu

ntly, we may suppose, bore much resemblance to that of the Latins. It has always been asserted that a great portion of the

ed with the Grecian Aphrodite, that almost everything peculiar to her has disappeared. She cannot however have been one of

er, cannot be fairly placed in comparison with it, being, as Rossetti has shown, only a figurative representation of things

. 469-505.) will see, a materialist, and in him certainly materialism has proved compatible with piety and purity of heart.

Rh. iii. 1191. 200. The most learned of poets is the only one that has alluded to this fiction in modern times. He evide

os may signify the union of the dawn with light. The tale of Tithonos has the air of a mere poetic fiction. 281. 1.ῥοδοδάκ

rows ; and that of Alcæus to Apollo (below, ch. viii.), where the god has a team of swans. 367. Il. xiv. 300. 368. Il. vi

of Adonis. See also Milton, Comus, 992. seq. The Italian poct Marini has made Adonis the hero of a long poem. 753. Plut.

. It is plain that δρῠς and the Germanic tree are the same word. Δρῠς has apparently this signification II. xxii. 126. Od.

cure, but we think the above is the sense of it. Hermann, we observe, has rendered it in the same manner. Ilgen regards the

. 1286. Apollod. ii. 5. 11. 1287. Apoll. Rh. iv. 1427. seq. Milton has (Comus, 981.) Hesperus and his daughters three T

frequently alluded to in these pages. The ‘Ælteste Weltkunde’ of Voss has two great defects ; he will localise every place

f Siena,’ the fair author of which, led solely by her poetic feeling, has taken the very view of nature which we ascribe to

owing Pherecydes, says “which is now called Gadeira,” but that island has surely no river or mountain in it. Hesiod (Th. 29

their minds a name so justly entitled to their admiration and esteem, has had no small degree of influence in urging me to

s subject from those licentious and indelicate stories, with which it has so long been encumbered and defaced, and which ar

e, to render the work more valuable and interesting. When the student has acquainted himself with the brief abstract here i

f all the classics. By way of translation from the French, the author has added some things which that popular author does

e year that is past, and that of a young man, regarding the year that has just commenced. He also had empire over highways,

ich is his armour bearer; his vesture is an embroidered cloak, and he has golden shoes. The ancients considered him as skil

ing of Thessaly, and remained nine years in his service; and hence he has sometimes been called the god of shepherds. He as

the duty of giving light to the world; and from this circumstance, he has often been considered as the sun. No god was more

lous fable afterwards gave Bacchus the surname of Bimater, or one who has two mothers. Some Tyrrhenian pirates, having foun

sometimes that of a young, and sometimes of an old man. Sometimes he has horns; at others, he appears naked on the shoulde

ar a mountain called Meros, a word, which signifies thigh. This fable has no other origin. Obs. 2. —  Herodotus, Plutarch,

t of Jupiter’s head, to show that wisdom was not invented by man, but has a celestial origin. She comes into the world, com

ts his mistress in qualities, the reality of which does not exist. He has wings, because favour is deceitful and love is pr

e beholder. Beauty, when adorned with the vermillion veil of modesty, has charms that are irresistible. When she is clad in

d low, The arbiter of war and peace allow;’ Ovid. Obs. 1. — He who has furnished the poets with most materials for fable

side over their fortunes and destinies; and hence, too, every element has had its divinity. But the gross ignorance of mise

the gross ignorance of miserable beings groping in nature’s darkness, has rendered it impossible for them to form just conc

dants. Nereides attended upon Tethys. Echo was once, a nymph, but she has left behind her nothing but her voice. Juno struc

y now a sound; Yet of her tongue no other use was found, Than now she has ; which never could be more, Than to repeat what s

I burn. The thing desir’d I still about me bore, And too much plenty has confirm’d me poor. O that I from my much loved se

refore submits to implore that Being; but he presumptuously thinks he has the right of attaching value to his homage; and,

h, where the reeds, agitated by the wind, uttered these words: “Midas has asses’ ears.” Many of the ridiculous fables of th

tracts of light, and some who committed suicide. Lovers whom despair has put to death, are found to wander farther into a

ich flow the rivers Lethe, Phlegethon, Cocytus, Styx, and Acheron. He has a crown of ebony on his head, and holds in one ha

ve or pacify her. She is depicted with a skeleton and a spotted robe, has black wings, and is armed with a scythe or a scym

rd, that was born of its own ashes; or in that of a globe, because it has no bounds; or in that of a serpent, which forms a

ded over banquets and feasts. He is well known by name. Every painter has a right to take his imagination for his guide, wh

stic words: “I am all that has been, all that shall be, and no mortal has ever taken off my veil.” Their theology had, ther

held a whip, with three thongs, and a staff in the left. Sometimes he has the head of a hawk, whose quick and piercing eye

               The immutable is he.” Parvati, the consort of Seeva, has immoral and indecent rites and emblems consecrate

tom which is yet encouraged by the Bramins, but which civil authority has had little influence in abolishing. Questions. Wh

ted only a single portico. Chapter VII. Of Oracles. Van Dale has produced a very learned treatise, in which he str

M.  De Fontenelle, with his accustomed discernment, charm, and grace, has disengaged this treatise of all tedious, or too h

d this treatise of all tedious, or too highly scientific details, and has adapted it to the capacity of the ordinary reader

in every thing the traditions of the church. Father Baltus, a Jesuit, has given us a second treatise, no less learned than

upiter to his daughter Thebe. They had the gift of speech. Herodotus has sought after the event that could have given rise

nt historian of Norway, together with the commentaries which Torfacus has added to his account. The Roman republic was at i

ended to his remoter posterity. Hence, the Ynglinglians, a name which has long served to designate the first kings of Swede

e god Thor; and Hela was banished into the infernal abodes, where she has the government of nine worlds, which she divides

ology of the North. That portion of it which the Mythology of Iceland has preserved, deserves the more attention, as, in di

by the gods in the order which we now admire it. No heathen religion has granted more than that of the Celts to divine pro

ys of destiny, Ere world there was, or gods, or man; No mortal tongue has ever said, What hand unknown laid Valva dead. But

n the shaggy monster lies. See the serpent weakly crawling,     Thor has bruis’d its loathsome head; Lo! the stars from he

its loathsome head; Lo! the stars from heav’n are falling!     Earth has sunk in ocean’s bed! Glorious Sun, thy beams are

The glory of a great nation awakens the genius of the man whom nature has endowed with a glowing imagination; and he burns

he fortunate or unfortunate events of their living friends. No nation has given stronger belief in apparitions. The mountai

, both by sea and land. This view clearly explains the parallel which has often been drawn between the Magi and the Druids,

hain, a mark of his dependence, and of the supreme dominion which God has over him.” Nothing is more celebrated in the his

ey became masters of Gaul, often caused them to be consulted. History has preserved a great number of their replies; but it

riately, than by quoting the words of an eminent Grecian scholar, who has set forth the leading characteristics of the syst

their application is clear and simple. For the same reason the writer has avoided questions of comparative mythology, excep

des, and rescued Alcestis, who was restored to her husband. Euripides has founded one of his most beautiful tragedies upon

h grew upon the spot, whispering, whenever the wind blew: “King Midas has asses’ ears!” Ques. Is anything else related of

. How is Minerva represented? Ans. As clothed in complete armor. She has a golden helmet on her head, holds a lance in her

d? Ans. As a beautiful boy with wings, carrying a bow and arrows; he has sometimes a band over his eyes to show that love

out ceasing until the pitying gods changed her into stone. This story has furnished the subject of a very beautiful group o

picion, stand near him. Calumny is beautiful in form and feature, but has a malignant countenance, and flashing eyes. Envy

n, however, makes its nest on shore, lays its eggs in the spring, and has no connection with calm weather. The large sponge

considered one of the most sublime passages in classic poetry; Milton has borrowed from it in his Battle of the Angels. Qu

Bucolics, are ten short pastoral poems. The fourth, entitled Pollio, has given rise to much speculation on account of its

ir immoral tendency; the corruption of the author’s private character has left its impress on all his works. The claim of O

obably situated in the valley now called Joannina, but the exact site has not been ascertained. In the earlier times Jupite

ns, is the only structure of the kind of which a complete description has reached us. It may serve to give a general idea o

t was carved by Cleomenes, an Athenian sculptor, 200 B. C. The artist has succeeded in producing a figure quite perfect in

venal, in one of his Satires, thus ridicules their superstition: Who has not heard where Egypt’s realms are nam’d What mon

altars. The Parsees of Hindostan say that they have sacred fire which has never been extinguished since the time of Zoroast

say of Siva? Ans. Siva, or Mahadeva, as he is more generally called, has a vast number of followers. His worshippers and t

of Vishnu form two distinct sects. Brahma, having finished his work, has but one temple in India. It is doubtful whether t

ra. From China it spread to Corea, Japan and Java. In Japan, Buddhism has , to a great extent, supplanted the Sinto religion

emselves before it at the beginning and end of each class. Every town has a temple erected in his honor, and his statue is

he hidden divinity. The child into whom they supposed the Lama’s soul has entered, is required to remember the most private

es. What is the general character of Scandinavian mythology? Ans. It has none of the grace and poetic beauty which charact

named because they live beyond the region of the north wind. The god has there a remarkable temple, circular in form, and

he light craft is weighed down by a ghostly band. The terrified pilot has no need of helm or sail, for the barks are borne

of ancient paganism. Almost within our own day, many an Irish peasant has made his scanty harvest still smaller, rather tha

ic worship were marked by a spirit of unexampled ferocity. Ques. How has this been explained? Ans. It is supposed that th

abulous, and his work, although formerly much quoted on these points, has rendered very little service to the art of medici

y of life which was the distinguishing mark of its professors. Pliny has left a collection of letters in ten books. They a

seems to have been formerly an island in the lake. So great a change has taken place, that the level of the lake is now 13

ccessive editions of this work which the approbation of to the Public has called for, to the Grecian and Roman Mythology, i

his obligations to Dr. Prichard, for the information and pleasure he has received from his scientific work on Egyptian Myt

ntheon may be found to possess a juster claim to that favour which it has already experienced, may continue to enjoy that s

has already experienced, may continue to enjoy that support which it has hitherto found, and may meet with still more exte

s of the earth. She wears a crown of towers, as before mentioned. She has keys in her hand, to signify her keeping, locked

ring fury of his father Saturn, by the address of Rhea his mother, as has before been recounted, and nourished by the milk

ged a hole in the earth, and whispering into it this sentence, “Midas has the ears of an ass,” filled it again. The reeds w

om the spot, when moved by the wind, uttered the fatal secret, “Midas has the ears of an ass.” A number of other stories, e

s of music. Terpsichore, or the amusing, presided over the dance. She has always a smiling countenance; and one foot lightl

n a black chariot, drawn by black horses, a helmet on his head, which has the power of rendering him invisible. The victims

at, a sacred Hindû poem. His appearance is gorgeous and brilliant. He has a thousand heads; and on each of them, is a crown

d, which is yet encouraged by the Brahmins, and which civil authority has not been able effectually to check. The Vedas the

it, or sacred language, in which their books of religion are written, has long ceased to be a spoken tongue; and is underst

ther rivers, which they account sacred. They believe that Vishnu, who has already been incarnate nine times, in different f

n blast from the desert, that burns up and destroys every thing which has life, was imputed to Typhon; whence comes its app

sing the winter solstice, when his beams are as yet weak, and the day has but a short duration. He represented also that po

e wanting, innocent persons were frequently immolated. The poet Lucan has thus described a druidical grove: “Not far away,

ere time began Ere world there was, or Gods, or man; No mortal tongue has ever said, What hand unknown laid Vala dead. But

n the shaggy monster lies. See the serpent weakly crawling!     Thor has bruis’d its loathsome head! Lo the stars from hea

d its loathsome head! Lo the stars from heav’n are falling!     Earth has sunk in ocean’s bed! Glorious Sun, thy beams are

o was Horus? with which of the Grecian Deities was he identified? How has the allegory of Horus been explained? In what par

Creation and the Deluge? Who are the Parsees? Who was Orosmades? How has Zoroaster described Arimanius? What were the symb

utlines of the stories in a simple form pleasurable to the reader who has no desire further than to obtain a general knowle

and when two or more versions of the same myth occur, the preference has invariably been given to the most popular, that i

ably been given to the most popular, that is to say, to the one which has inspired the greatest works. Both the Latin and t

supposed by the ancients to be a disc, instead of a sphere as science has proved. The Greeks fancied that their country occ

e any laws to restrict men, nor judges to punish.” This time of bliss has justly borne the title of the Golden Age, and the

osed to have been inspired by the king of gods; this long-lost shrine has recently been discovered. “Oh, where, Dodona! is

venting the lurking fiend malaria from making further inroads. Apollo has always been a favourite subject for painters and

glowing orb in its daily journey across the sky. “No, the heart that has truly lov’d never forgets,     But as truly loves

through their leaves, they were heard to murmur. “Midas, King Midas, has ass’s ears!” and all who passed by caught the whi

mblems of the natural thaw which comes in spring, when winter’s pride has melted. As soon as the young Goddess of the Moon

nconscious lips. Such is the tale of Diana and her lowly lover, which has inspired poets of all ages. “Queen of the wide a

protected side, and trampled him to death. “The white tusk of a boar has transpierced his white thigh. …………………………………………………

ung priestess, whose charms far surpassed all descriptions. Venus, as has already been stated, was always deeply interested

y his side. Thus lived and died the faithful lovers, whose attachment has passed into a proverb. “Come hither all sweet ma

corpse, and changed it into a flower bearing the youth’s name, which has ever since flourished beside quiet pools, wherein

red them on to renewed efforts to complete a task so hopeless that it has become proverbial. These fair maidens were the Da

ants of Italy, and blessed them with such prosperity that their reign has often been called the Age of Gold               

allenged Achelous; and now began a wrestling match, the fame of which has come down to us through all the intervening centu

s. The terrible struggle which ensued between the conflicting parties has ever been a favourite subject in art, and is popu

failed to give the right answer. “Tell me, what animal is that Which has four feet at morning bright, Has two at noon, and

the Chimæra, is a favourite subject in sculpture and painting, which has frequently been treated by ancient artists, a few

air. As morn, with vermeil visage, looks from high, When solemn night has vanished suddenly; When winter melts, and frees t

uld draw him. There, at the gate, took place the parting scene, which has deservedly been called the most pathetic in all t

nt tomb erected over his remains on the Trojan plain. Another version has it that Polyxena was torn from the arms of Hecuba

le friend. In fact, their devotion to each other was so great that it has become proverbial in every tongue. Electra had no

able; now thou art the last of all. Grievest thou for thy master, who has lost His eye, put out by a deceitful wretch And h

within reach.                         “No mariner can boast That he has passed by Scylla with a crew Unharmed; she snatch

d, and see With thine own eyes what thou hast pined for long. Ulysses has returned; thy lord is here, Though late, and he h

for long. Ulysses has returned; thy lord is here, Though late, and he has slain the arrogant crew Of suitors, who disgraced

rovide them mansions strong and great, The city’s walls, which Heaven has willed Beyond the seas you yet shall build.’” Vi

e former school also declare that the myth of Cupid and Psyche, which has its parallel in stories found in all parts of the

it is unlawful for the husband to see his wife’s face until after she has given birth to her first child, and in others a w

and stars are alive, and, as it were, human in their nature”. “Poetry has so far kept alive in our minds the old animative

of deities or heroes — very much in the way that the word “good-bye” has long survived its original form as a conscious pr

rm as a conscious prayer, “God be with you!” and the word “ostracism” has lost all connection with an oyster shell. The pri

Pitar, the god and personification of the bright sky or the heavens, has likewise been traced to the Sanskrit root div or

place where he disappeared, but is no more seen after the sun himself has fairly risen, “they say that Orpheus has turned a

e seen after the sun himself has fairly risen, “they say that Orpheus has turned around too soon to look at her, and so was

ought by a sudden storm of thunder.” The story of Diana and Endymion has also been interpreted as a sun myth, in which the

ous of her rival’s charms, sends him the bloody Nessus robe, which he has no sooner donned, than he tears it from his bleed

a framework of flaming crimson clouds. Like all solar heroes, he too has unerring poisoned weapons ( “the word ios, ‘a spe

Æthra (the pure air). He lingers in his birthplace, Trœzene, until he has acquired strength enough to wield his invincible

and she returns to her husband and her allegiance. The siege of Troy has thus been interpreted to signify “a repetition of

the Phæacian land (the land of clouds or mists). It is only after he has slain the suitors of Penelope (the weaver of brig

the morning, which streamed in upon the darkness of the night. Semele has also been interpreted as the earth, the chosen br

winds. Cloud Myths The cloud myths, to which frequent allusion has already been made, comprise not only the cattle o

remain beyond the grasp of human comprehension. Eternity, that which has neither end nor beginning, baffles the most profo

lation. Every people, no matter how degraded and sunken in barbarism, has some perception, some explanation of, and a more

se finally became crystallized into a literature, or mythology, which has since been the inspiration alike of romancers and

ay be separated into two distinct classes or divisions, each of which has its own adherents and supporters. The first schoo

an evil spirit. Even the heavenly bodies are personified, and “poetry has so far kept alive in our minds the old animative

ith human parts and passions.” Every religion antedating Christianity has inculcated the worship of idols, which usually ta

ory whose origin can never be known with certainty. To most people it has the same significance as a fable, legendary tale,

self. He was defeated, and finally turned himself into a river, which has since been known by his name. Ach′eron [Acheron]

here he gained great riches by his art. There is a pretty fable which has made the name of Arion famous. Once when travelin

p an armed man. Cadu′ceus [Caduceus]. The rod carried by Mercury. It has two winged serpents entwined round the top end. I

s swore “By the Styx,” and such an oath was never violated. The river has to be crossed in passing to the regions of the de

own into the innermost hell for insulting Diana. He, like Prometheus, has a vulture constantly feeding on his ever-growing

ass. I have looked o’er the hills of the stormy North, And the larch has hung all his tassels forth; The fisher is out on

nny sea, And the reindeer bounds o’er the pastures free, And the pine has a fringe of softer green, And the moss looks brig

pond, is certainly not a very attractive or lovable creature. But he has his good qualities, nevertheless, and he improves

ce remained. Since that time she lies hidden in the woods, and no one has ever seen so much as a gleam of her white arms in

hand on Arachne’s shoulder, “listen to the advice of an old woman who has had much experience in life. Be content to reign

greater than Latona? I am a queen, and she is but a humble woman. She has only two children, and I have seven times that nu

oks something like a woman; and in the sightless eyes a little stream has its source and trickles down the mountain side, a

kable man. Hercules was, in fact, the strongest man of whom the world has any record. Nowadays, when we wish to say that an

to the fight are gone. A place in the ranks awaits you,     Each man has some part to play; The past and the future are no

ming some airy fortress,     Or bidding some giant yield. Your future has deeds of glory,     Of honor (God grant it may!),

known for its lack of hospitality. Hospitality is a long word, but it has such a beautiful meaning that we can forgive its

thed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the

orehead, yet the great sun in heaven, which sees all things, likewise has but one eye. “My father rules over the blue sea i

stance. In a small isle amidst the wildest seas Triumphant Constancy has fix’d her seat. In vain the syrens sing, the temp

ò. Non te nullius exercent numinis irae : Magna lues commissa : tibi has miserabilis Orpheus Haudquaquam ob meritum poenas

ni rivage, ni zéphyrs rafraîchissans. On ne voyait point de terre en has , ni de ciel en haut ; tout n’était qu’un vaste ab