s fairer than Venus herself. Though Venus was a goddess, she was just like a silly woman. She was the most beautiful of all

artly concealed by clusters of golden curls, and the ruby lips looked like a half opened flower. She was struck with admirat

a delicious odour, a noxious vapour arose from it, and enveloped her like a cloud, and she fell down insensible. Happily fo

goddesses? Mother. They did not know better. They had not been told, like the Hebrews, that there was one true God. Ann. w

. Mother. I think so. Many beside you think so. The Italian painters like it very much. I gave it you because I thought you

Never was a story better exhibited.” Ann. Have you any more stories like this of Psyche for me to read? Mother. Yes, I ha

s thou art, I give to thee,” said she to Licinia. “This lily is fair, like Cyane; take it, it will become thy white bosom —

ng the pure white lily in the hair of Cytheris, she said, “It is here like a star in the dark night.” “Leontia,” she exclaim

ear it for my sake.” At that moment the sun was overcast, and a noise like distant thunder startled the young girls. They sp

not quite satisfied with this story, mother, of Proserpine. I should like to know if Pluto kept her, and how her mother bor

guardian goddess and the wood-nymphs, my companions. I pity you; for, like you, I am deprived of those I love.” “Do you know

ile Ceres was making search for Proserpine through Sicily, she seemed like a common woman, and the peasants of Sicily did no

r hands to catch up the lizard; but the little animal was become shy, like the rest of its species, and he glided into a hol

re not for the unhappy end of it, and the bad actions it describes. I like to read stories of the good, and not of the bad.

like to read stories of the good, and not of the bad. Mother. And I like to have you read stories of good people, because

, in what is called an air-line; but then the vessels in use were not like ours; and so ill-contrived and ill-managed were t

nder-bolts, and Mercury his caduceus. They appeared, in this journey, like common mortals, or rather like poor, weary, wayfa

uceus. They appeared, in this journey, like common mortals, or rather like poor, weary, wayfaring men. The two gods, when ni

her guests;” a second answered their application by saying, “I do not like your appearance; people must be careful nowadays

. When the fire burned clear, Baucis set upon it a kettle which shone like burnished gold. Philemon went out into his garden

uch churlish conduct the good gods detest and punish, but benevolence like yours deserves recompense. Ascend to yonder mount

The votaries prayed that their wives might be helpers and comforters like Baucis, and their husbands constant till death, l

s and comforters like Baucis, and their husbands constant till death, like Philemon. “The good, said they, are God’s peculi

nour share.” Conversation: Mother and Ann. Mother. How do you like Baucis and Philemon? Ann. Very much. But I shoul

r. How do you like Baucis and Philemon? Ann. Very much. But I should like to know why they had no glass windows in their co

e met the princess Aglauria. He had folded up his wings, and appeared like a handsome young man. “I am come hither, fair lad

? Mother. Yes; all stories have some truth in them, or we should not like them. Ann. Why not? Mother. Because every body

erent. A fiction must have some truth mixed with it, or we should not like it we call a story impossible, when it cannot be

nor did the men and women marry and have families. They lived almost like flocks of wild animals; but Cecrops taught them t

e people worshipped the animals? Ann. Yes, I remember that. I should like to know something about Mercury. Mother. Mercury

e, and he saw the shell of a dead tortoise, which is oval and hollow, like a dish cover, only rather flatter. He picked up t

iteful spirit, who gave pain, an evil genius. Ann. That is something like mischievous fairies and kind fairies. Mother. So

omething like mischievous fairies and kind fairies. Mother. Somewhat like them. Shall I tell you another story? Ann. If yo

e them. Shall I tell you another story? Ann. If you please. I should like to hear one. Mother. That gentleman who said Mer

. He saw the pretty Europa, the king’s daughter. He thought he should like to have her himself; so he came like a beautiful

s daughter. He thought he should like to have her himself; so he came like a beautiful milk-white bull, and began to eat gra

admus to search for her. Cadmus could not find Europa, and he did not like to return to his father without her; therefore he

a dragon is a fabulous animal, mentioned only in fables. It is drawn like a great lizard with wings, having a serpent’s tai

you explain the virtue of discretion, or prudence? Ann. Prudence is like caution somewhat. It is thinking beforehand what

e same worship was called the Brumalia at Rome; but the Roman people, like the early Greeks, got drunk at these celebrations

, upon this occasion, and increase the turbulence. Ann. This is much like the procession of Bacchus, but there is no Silenu

ung, handsome, and vigorous; he was fit to be king over a rude people like those of Seriphus, who thought beauty and strengt

him from his rest. He rose with renewed vigour, and pursued his way, like some migratory bird, through immeasurable fields

d, and abhor the wicked, they assist those who are foil of compassion like themselves. I trust them; I know they will afford

ce and good sense, when he was established in the palace, and attired like a king, he appeared like one, and knew how to mak

e was established in the palace, and attired like a king, he appeared like one, and knew how to make every body about him ha

cause he was young and strong, and because others loved him. That was like Psyche’s sisters, and Cinderella’s, in the fairy

w, my child, is a bad passion, which persons feel. It cannot be seen, like a woman or child, though you may think of it. But

, and I think of truth when I think of her. If I should draw a figure like hers, and not call it by her name, but should cal

Greece, and he had many children, and they became founders of cities, like their ancestor, Perseus. Ann. And who was he tha

were nine sisters, who dwelt in the pleasant valley of Tempe, though, like other goddesses, they could go wherever they like

the rock, among the trees which overshadowed them, they heard a sound like human voices. “Can these be birds which I hear?”

alaces of princes, and as often in the cottages of peasants. In fact, like the “blessed sun,” he was every where, making all

e present time. Ann. What were the Pythian games? Mother. They were like other games held in Greece. These games which we

s the laurel, and you shall read a story concerning it Ann. I should like first to know the true story of the Python, if I

young girl, the daughter of the river Peneus. Apollo soon after, clad like a shepherd, went into the fields, and Daphne chan

called a metaphorical, or figurative way of speaking, when one word, like “laurels,” means glory, and not literally, or as

ted the reeds to a flute of seven pipes, which he called Syrinx, “and like this,” concluded Mercury, “which I hold in my han

and tell her that you dispute her word, and do not believe that I am, like yourself, descended from Jove.” To settle the que

ult ). [Title Page] Preface Almost all boys and girls like fairy tales; they appeal to the imaginative side

stories I am going to tell you; for she was selfish and jealous, and, like all such people, often made herself and others ve

she heard the patter of feet on the ground. For although her body was like a bear’s, her thoughts and feelings were still hu

and, in the meanwhile, Arcas had grown to be a fine, tall youth, who, like his mother, was very fond of hunting. So good a m

st, happiest girl you could imagine. Her face was all white and pink, like apple blossoms in spring, and there was just enou

fountain!     Let my heart be Fresh, changeful, constant,     Upward like thee! James Russell Lowell. The Childhood o

ched with thirst. The two babes in her arms sometimes seemed to weigh like lead, she was so tired from walking all day long.

answered in a very churlish tone, “You are an old woman and you speak like one. Let Minerva come and try her skill with mine

g, emptying the clouds as he passed. His face was covered with a veil like the night, his beard was loaded with showers, and

monster, so ugly that I will not even try to tell you what it looked like , and so wicked and cruel that the people for mile

eon! He fled in terror, but although his swift feet carried him along like the wind, his antlers caught in the trees and bus

this honor?” cried Perseus, in great delight. “You may try it, if you like ,” answered the king. “It is to bring me the head

which made the wearer invisible; Minerva gave her shield which shone like gold, and was so bright that it reflected things

they could not bear to see what was to happen. All at once something like a little black cloud came darting through the air

flowed a restless river, dashing over rocks and scattering its spray, like fine mist, over all the trees on its banks. The g

ep sigh, and his breath among the reeds made a soft, murmuring sound, like music. Pan was so charmed by the sweet tone, that

igh mountain top; or at least you can see a rock that looks something like a woman; and in the sightless eyes a little strea

ercules was uppermost. Against his mighty strength, the river god was like a child. But just as the hero was clasping his gr

ct, one of the men horses, or centaurs, as they were called, who were like men in the upper parts of their bodies, but like

ere called, who were like men in the upper parts of their bodies, but like horses in the lower parts; so of course he could

he could not free himself from his torture, he died as he had lived, like a hero. With his own hands he tore up great trees

with sail boats, when suddenly he said, “Oh, father, the vessels look like great, white-winged birds skimming lightly over t

eathers of different lengths, and, with his deft fingers, shaped them like birds’ wings. When they were finished he fastened

that no accident should befall him, gave the signal to start. Slowly, like two great birds, father and son rose into the air

bird must be, Skimming about on the breezy sea. Cresting the billows like silvery foam, Then wheeling away to its cliff-bui

hrough the rosy morn! To meet the young sun, face to face, And pierce like a shaft the boundless space, To pass through the

t With the upper cloud winds oh, what delight! Oh, what would I give, like a bird, to go Right on through the arch of the su

as wild As the laughing mirth of a rosy child! What joy it must be, like a living breeze, To flutter about ’mid the flower

eath The wastes of the blossoming purple heath, And the yellow furze, like fields of gold, That gladdened some fairy region

so he went to Athens. Before long almost every one in Athens grew to like him, for he was a frank, generous youth, and most

ld beasts that attacked him. At last, weary and footsore, yet looking like a king’s son, every inch of him, he came to the g

ter arose from the table, saying they had eaten enough, and would now like a place in which to sleep; for they had come a gr

reat couch of black ebony, lay Somnus wrapped in slumber. Around him, like vapor, flitted the shadowy forms of dreams and vi

!           Wake her gently, morn! Let the notes of early birds Seem like love’s melodious words; Every pleasant sound my d

his poverty and friendlessness, King Aeson brought up his little son like a prince. At that time the wisest person in the w

called only half a person; for, you remember, the centaurs had bodies like those of horses, and heads and shoulders like men

the centaurs had bodies like those of horses, and heads and shoulders like men’s. Chiron was very wise and very good, and ma

ide washes ashore; his hair, which streamed behind him, looked almost like the waves on which it floated. He was made the go

hat it is a very pretty name. You know a flower with a name very much like that? Perhaps they have something to do with each

while. Hyacinthus did not think it at all strange that Apollo should like to do these things for him. For love is so wonder

But it was of no use — Hyacinthus was fast sinking, his head drooping like a bruised flower, and like a flower he faded away

inthus was fast sinking, his head drooping like a bruised flower, and like a flower he faded away. Apollo’s grief was sad to

e of the loveliest young girl that you could imagine. It did not seem like an image; the rosy sunset gave the marble a soft

image; the rosy sunset gave the marble a soft tinge that made it look like real flesh. The mouth was half open, as if the ma

the next minute she must ‘step down from her pedestal and move about like any other woman. As Pygmalion looked at the finis

When Pan had finished, Apollo stepped to the front. His hair gleamed like the sun’s bright rays, and his eyes shone like st

ront. His hair gleamed like the sun’s bright rays, and his eyes shone like stars. He threw open his rich golden mantle, and,

led as with an earthquake. The Cyclops were almost covered with hair, like animals, and this, together with their one fiery

caves, fire shot forth from those eyes, and then they looked exactly like volcanoes sending forth flames from the great hol

the water. They would rise on the crests of the waves, looking almost like white foam on the sea. Sometimes they combed out

the sea. Sometimes they combed out their yellow hair, which glistened like gold or like the sunlight on the clear, sparkling

times they combed out their yellow hair, which glistened like gold or like the sunlight on the clear, sparkling water. The f

e sea nymphs was Galatea. To the rough old Polyphemus she seemed just like a bit of sunshine and clear sky, and he fell very

is not larger. See the long hair which hangs over my shoulders, and, like a grove of trees, throws a shadow about my head.

hich gushed forth from under the rock. At first it was red and looked like blood, but as it flowed on, it became clearer and

of literature. The Greek accounts of the early history of the world, like the Roman ones, are incomplete and contradictory

oddesses showed themselves at times on earth, and they were very much like men and women, even on Olympus. They ate, and dra

en and women, even on Olympus. They ate, and drank, and were married, like people of the earth, and we are told that they of

n, Pluto caught her up in his arms, and in a moment they were driving like mad across the fields. Then, indeed, Proserpina w

e loved her. He told her that the underworld was black and beautiful, like the night, and that it was rich with sparkling go

ingdom, began to see better. High above, she could make out something like a cloudy sky arched over the whole region. It was

s she had not let fall when the grim god seized her. “I hope you will like it here,” said Pluto, as they drove on. “It is ve

of the water, for that was a sound she loved. But the murmur was not like that of earthly rivers. Somehow it made her shudd

ture in the palace was the poor little goddess Proserpina, who seemed like a sunbeam gone astray; and, indeed, for all his t

!” and Pan, the god of the animals, came skipping to meet her. He was like a man, but he had hoofs in place of feet, and his

o little stubby horns upon his forehead. When he spoke, his voice was like the whinny of a horse, or the cry of some wild cr

t whether he smiled or frowned, it was always beautiful and majestic, like the sky. At his right sat Juno, the stately godde

h. Suddenly it opened and something struck her in the face and burned like a spark of fire. Pandora started back with a cry,

pale beams, The distant sounds of their harmony    Come to our ears, like dreams. The Moon, too, brings her world so nigh,

ith my darts, but what can you do with yours?” The little god did not like the words of the great archer. “I can shoot you,

ts little occupants, but at that moment the children awoke. Iphicles, like any other baby, was terribly frightened and began

where it forked. Goddesses they really were, though they seemed more like beautiful women. One of them, when she saw Hercul

   Yon soft light afar; — The pearl I’ve been seeking    There floats like a star! In the deep Indian Ocean    I see the gem

uick as light’s motion    Its wealth shall be thine.” Then eastward, like lightning,    The hero-god flew, His sunny looks

od panting, but with the joy of victory on his face, while Death fled like a shadow before the sun. Alcestis was saved. She

Then Phaëton looked down. Far beneath him he saw the earth spread out like a great map. The height made him dizzy. He droppe

tumn, and incessant    Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples    Burned among the with

rible to look at. Their heads were flat and were covered with scales, like the heads of snakes. Their teeth were like great

were covered with scales, like the heads of snakes. Their teeth were like great tusks. Their hands were of brass, and each

e of brass, and each had on her back two long, swift wings that shone like gold. These two were crouched upon the floor, but

ther Gorgon, Medusa, was walking to and fro, moaning in pain. She was like a fair woman, but, instead of hair, a mass of wri

ril awaited him. This region belonged to the giant Atlas, who did not like strangers. He ordered Perseus to leave the countr

giant’s head. Thus the first day passed. The following days were much like it, but at last Theseus reached Athens. His fame

e! the year of blood!    The day of desolation! When sorrow streameth like a flood    O’er all the Attic nation.2 Theseus

to be arriving nowhere. Suddenly he heard a great bellow. It sounded like the voice of a bull, yet it seemed at the same ti

this way and that, sniffing the air and listening. Its huge body was like that of a man, but its skin looked thick and hard

huge body was like that of a man, but its skin looked thick and hard like leather. Upon its great neck it had the head of a

great neck it had the head of a bull, but with teeth long and sharp, like the teeth of some enormous wolf. After a moment i

at him with its fierce, cunning, hungry eyes, he hated it, for it was like a beast, and was yet more like a cruel and evil m

, hungry eyes, he hated it, for it was like a beast, and was yet more like a cruel and evil man. With a terrible bellow it r

er. Her hair was as golden as the sunlight, and her eyes a rich blue, like the sky. Where she walked, the roses and violets

seeing the dark frowns of Juno and Minerva. Then sleep came over him like a cloud, and the goddesses disappeared. When he w

f Troy had become a land of war. Castor and Pollux.5 So like they were, no mortal    Might one from other know

n had offended Apollo by insulting the father of Chryseis. Agamemnon, like a good king, at once ordered the maiden to be sen

goddess Minerva threw a golden light about his head, so that he shone like one of the gods. And Achilles stood upon the edge

Achilles, her son. Never on earth had such armor been seen. It shone like the sun, and the friends of Achilles had to turn

his shining armor and his terrible spear, the Trojans fled before him like sheep. All day long the battle lasted, and all th

a Grecian ship. The host had gone. The people of the city swarmed out like bees, and wandered with delight through the deser

nd stood trembling in the wood, the horse gave forth a sound that was like the clashing of metal, as if the inside was full

t them up in sties, where they wallowed in the mire, not contentedly, like real swine, but in misery, for they still had the

coast of Phæacia; but the Phæacians, when they knew him, received him like a god, for his deeds before Troy were well known

nd bowed him down and put a ragged cloak about him, so that he looked like a wretched old beggar. Then Ulysses left the sea-

arts. Then, as they feasted in the palace, Ulysses came and sat down, like a beggar, at the door of the banquet hall. “Bring

pon Ulysses, and shed great beauty on him, making him tall and strong like the gods. When he came in, he spoke to Penelope o

s afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon, Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the

t hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke, the slender stream Along the cl

faiths is not to be expected of the general reader in a practical age like this. The time even of the young is claimed by so

ve, A summer’s day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” Mars

ir, their heads decorated with short, sprouting horns, and their feet like goats’. Momus was the god of laughter, and Plutus

His name in the plural, Fauns, expressed a class of gamesome deities, like the Satyrs of the Greeks. Quirinus was a war god,

gether wicked. The hardest and worst was the Iron Age. Crime burst in like a flood; modesty, truth, and honor fled. In their

shape. By degrees, they put on a rude resemblance to the human form, like a block half-finished in the hands of the sculpto

than Pandora, whom the gods Endowed with all their gifts; and O, too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet b

employs the same allusion, in his ode to Napoleon Bonaparte: — “Or, like the thief of fire from heaven,     Wilt thou with

rest father, grant me this favor, that I may always remain unmarried, like Diana.” He consented, but at the same time said,

thrown away, and, sped by Cupid, gained upon her in the race. It was like a hound pursuing a hare, with open jaws ready to

has fed,     And whose wings rain contagion: how they fled,     When like Apollo, from his golden bow,     The Pythian of t

wilderness;     And his own Thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued like raging hounds their father and their prey.” Stanz

rned his parentage, never prevailed in his request. He is borne along like a vessel that flies before a tempest, when the pi

world on fire, and felt the heat intolerable. The air he breathed was like the air of a furnace and full of burning ashes, a

at and from existence! Phaëton, with his hair on fire, fell headlong, like a shooting star which marks the heavens with its

ied his teeth. He took a glass of wine, but it flowed down his throat like melted gold. In consternation at the unprecedente

on begin to put forth leaves, and old Philemon saw Baucis changing in like manner. And now a leafy crown had grown over thei

your daughter; I have lost mine.” As she spoke, tears — or something like tears, for the gods never weep — fell down her ch

ld not find me. ‘Arethusa! Arethusa!’ he cried. Oh, how I trembled, —  like a lamb that hears the wolf growling outside the f

the realms of the dead.” When Ceres heard this, she stood for a while like one stupefied; then turned her chariot towards he

ese urchins celebrate their dance of mirth,     Round the green tree, like fays upon a heath; —         Those that are neare

Those that are nearest linked in order bright,     Cheek after cheek, like rosebuds in a wreath;     And those more distant

, — for that I do not wish, — but to make her share it and yield me a like return.” To which Circe replied, for she was not

utterly of self-intent, Moving but with the mighty ebb and flow. Then like a new-fledged bird that first doth show His sprea

is art was so perfect that it concealed itself and its product looked like the workmanship of nature. Pygmalion admired his

y wife” — he dared not say “my ivory virgin,” but said instead — “one like my ivory virgin.” Venus, who was present at the f

he limbs; the ivory felt soft to his touch and yielded to his fingers like the wax of Hymettus. While he stands astonished a

her charms, now rambles through the woods and over the hills, dressed like the huntress Diana; and calls her dogs, and chase

ps fall, and in an hour’s time there sprang up a flower of bloody hue like that of the pomegranate. But it is short-lived. I

— a Stygian blackness. The vessel shares all these changes. It seems like a wild beast that rushes on the spears of the hun

ide his wings, he assumed the form of Ceyx. Under that form, but pale like a dead man, naked, he stood before the couch of t

bird. As she flew, her throat poured forth sounds full of grief, and like the voice of one lamenting. When she touched the

e is not a wandering deity, but belongs to these mountains. Nor is he like too many of the lovers nowadays, who love any one

er face, she tried in vain; and by degrees all her limbs became stony like her heart. That you may not doubt the fact, the s

efore her in his proper person, as a comely youth. It appeared to her like the sun bursting through a cloud. He would have r

he dawn of morning, but his accents were full of love, and inspired a like passion in her. She often begged him to stay and

y wings on his shoulders, whiter than snow, and with shining feathers like the tender blossoms of spring. As she leaned the

ave lurked a horrid serpent with a crested head and scales glittering like gold. His eyes shone like fire, his body was swol

t with a crested head and scales glittering like gold. His eyes shone like fire, his body was swollen with venom, he vibrate

isted himself into a circle, then stretched himself out on the ground like the trunk of a fallen tree. As he moved onward, C

ith an arrow from another. The latter fell victim to a fourth, and in like manner the whole crowd dealt with each other till

d wish to be with my dead subjects? On all sides lay my people strewn like over-ripened apples beneath the tree, or acorns u

heard and granted the prayer. There was a clear fountain, with water like silver, to which the shepherds never drove their

stood gazing with admiration at those bright eyes, those locks curled like the locks of Bacchus or Apollo, the rounded cheek

do the same; and you smile upon me and answer my beckonings with the like .” His tears fell into the water and disturbed the

ovidence designed,     Rather in pity than in hate, That he should be like Cupid blind,     To save him from Narcissus’ fate

slight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seemed to live, so like it was in sight; The velvet nap which on his wing

he reins, and fell lifeless. Another, hearing the sound of the bow, —  like a boatman who sees the storm gathering and makes

ose works are now forgotten, unless when recalled to mind by some wit like Moore for the sake of a joke. Chapter XV. The

whence their name. The Gorgons were monstrous females with huge teeth like those of swine, brazen claws, and snaky hair. Non

monster raised himself in the air, then plunged into the depth; then, like a wild boar surrounded, by a pack of barking dogs

Perseus’s friends, Aconteus, caught sight of the Gorgon and stiffened like the rest. Astyages struck him with his sword, but

e this war lasted the giants proved a formidable enemy. Some of them, like Briareus, had a hundred arms; others, like Typhon

dable enemy. Some of them, like Briareus, had a hundred arms; others, like Typhon, breathed out fire. At one time they put t

sumed, An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air (Thy tempering;) with like safety guided down Return me to my native element

whose blind thought futurity denies, Unconscious bears, Bellerophon, like thee His own indictment, he condemns himself. Who

on, His cuishes on his thighs, gallantly armed, Rise from the ground like feathered Mercury, And vaulted with such ease int

h the sculptors and poets of antiquity. But not all the Centaurs were like the rude guests of Pirithous. Chiron was instruct

n uses the Pygmies for a simile, P. L. Book I.: —                “—— like that Pygmæan race Beyond the Indian mount, or fai

eir nostrils that burned up the herbage as they passed. The sound was like the roar of a furnace, and the smoke like that of

they passed. The sound was like the roar of a furnace, and the smoke like that of water upon quick-lime. Jason advanced bol

fleece afterwards we do not know, but perhaps it was found after all, like many other golden prizes, not worth the trouble i

fiction. It probably was the first important maritime expedition, and like the first attempts of the kind of all nations, as

t,     And neglected his task for the flowers in the way. “Thus many like me, who in youth should have tasted     The fount

own him into a deep sleep by a charm, had him laid on a bed of herbs, like one dead. Jason and all others were kept away fro

er, the grass wherever the sprinklings fell shot forth with a verdure like that of spring. Seeing that all was ready, Medea

ds of Calydon. Its eyes shone with blood and fire, its bristles stood like threatening spears, its tusks were like those of

and fire, its bristles stood like threatening spears, its tusks were like those of Indian elephants. The growing corn was t

I find That light-footed Fancy leaves Truth far behind, Or at least, like Hippomenes, turns her astray By the golden illusi

r forth heaven’s wine, Idæan Ganymede, And let it fill the Dædal cups like fire.” The beautiful legend of the Choice of Her

elf the spirit and the soul of a hero, and eager to signalize himself like Hercules, with whose fame all Greece then rang, b

ning into one another, and seeming to have neither beginning nor end, like the river Maeander, which returns on itself, and

hread and the smaller with wax, and gave the whole a gentle curvature like the wings of a bird. Icarus, the boy, stood and l

caulay in his Lays of Ancient Rome thus alludes to the legend: — “So like they were, no mortal     Might one from other kno

r shepherd’s pipe, which he himself played in a masterly manner. Pan, like other gods who dwelt in forests, was dreaded by t

ot enough for him. The more he ate the more he craved. His hunger was like the sea, which receives all the rivers, yet is ne

like the sea, which receives all the rivers, yet is never filled; or like fire, that burns all the fuel that is heaped upon

er rocks, to call forth or subdue storms, to shake the shores and the like . He created the horse and was the patron of horse

ke him his father’s trumpeter. Proteus was also a son of Neptune. He, like Nereus, is styled a sea-elder for his wisdom and

hey cannot in the course of nature live much longer, and who can feel like them the call to rescue the life they gave from a

d wife”: — “Methought I saw my late espoused saint     Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave,     Whom Jove’s great so

her command opened itself and let him pass in, while it stood curled like a mountain on either side. He descended to the re

ger, a scaly dragon or lion with yellow mane. Or he will make a noise like the crackling of flames or the rush of water, so

ompete for the prize. He told his wish to Periander, who besought him like a brother to give up the thought. “Pray stay with

d farewell to life, and yield uncomplaining to my fate.” This prayer, like the others, would have been unheeded, — they thou

Eurydice, and lose her again as soon as found; when she had vanished like a dream, how didst thou hate the cheerful light!

inted and were thrown into convulsions, and the magistrates forbade a like representation for the future.   Ibycus, the pio

ems as if the very fabric would give way. The murmur of voices sounds like the roar of the sea, while the circles widening i

Thus the Eumenides sang, and moved in solemn cadence, while stillness like the stillness of death sat over the whole assembl

he cranes to do with him?” and louder grew the swell of voices, while like a lightning’s flash the thought sped through ever

             “These thoughts, O night, are thine; From thee they came like lovers’ secret sighs, While others slept. So Cynt

y a night I saw the Pleiads, rising through the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.”

the same subject. Aurora and Tithonus. The goddess of the Dawn, like her sister the Moon, was at times inspired with t

e anniversary of his death they return and celebrate his obsequies in like manner. Aurora remains inconsolable for the loss

es of my coldness and cruelty. “When he had finished he rose up, and, like a raging bull that cannot stand still, wandered o

flowed out from under the rock, but by degrees grew paler and looked like the stream of a river rendered turbid by rains, a

would induce all others of the inhabitants of heaven to interpose in like manner whenever any of their offspring were endan

sons. “Think, O Achilles,” he said, “of thy own father, full of days like me, and trembling on the gloomy verge of life. Pe

lance at the horse’s side. It struck, and a hollow sound reverberated like a groan. Then perhaps the people might have taken

’s description of the ships of the Phæacians has been thought to look like an anticipation of the wonders of modern steam na

the beggar was admitted in the halls of chieftains, and often treated like a guest; though sometimes, also, no doubt, with c

nimble it was almost impossible to hit them, and their feathers were like armor impenetrable to steel. One of them, perched

r Cyclopes came forth from their caves and woods and lined the shore, like a row of lofty pine trees. The Trojans plied thei

t excellent part, fire, and became flame. This material was scattered like seed among the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, an

vest, nor provide from present abundance for future want; but browsed like beasts upon the leafy boughs, or fed voraciously

ced the comely bosom of Euryalus. His head fell over on his shoulder, like a flower cut down by the plough. Nisus rushed upo

zentius, finding himself engaged against his revolted subjects, raged like a wild beast. He slew all who dared to withstand

d! There’s not the smallest orb that thou behold’st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed c

nceived to be crystalline or glassy fabrics arranged over one another like a nest of bowls reversed. In the substance of eac

e the phenomena of Mesmerism have attracted attention, that something like the mesmeric trance was induced in the Pythoness,

Giants against Heaven.” There are doubtless many curious coincidences like these, but the theory cannot without extravagance

was surmounted by a Sphinx. The statue was forty feet in height, and, like the Jupiter, composed of ivory and gold. The eyes

gold-colored, and part crimson; and he is for the most part very much like an eagle in outline and bulk.” The first writer

led kings of serpents because all other serpents and snakes, behaving like good subjects, and wisely not wishing to be burne

man naturalist Pliny thus describes him: “He does not impel his body, like other serpents, by a multiplied flexion, but adva

s, but still we can imagine his anxiety to know what a cockatrice was like . The following is from Aldrovandus, a celebrated

all theirs have been, — devoured by their own hounds!         Be thou like the imperial basilisk, Killing thy foe with unapp

e are animals bearing on their heads a bony protuberance more or less like a horn, which may have given rise to the story. T

s in the contests you have had with my followers. In the first, Loki, like hunger itself, devoured all that was set before h

, and have, moreover, nothing to throw.” “Come, then,” said Loki, “do like the rest, and show honor to Baldur by throwing th

eysers, [boiling springs,] sulphur pools, and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste, chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire

eyes ever to seem Falling asleep in a half dream! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light Which will not leave the myrrh

eized By younger Saturn; he from mightier Jove His own and Rhea’s son like measure found ………………………………………………… —— Or who with

ep Their clenched teeth still clenched, and all their limbs Locked up like veins of metal cramped and screwed: Without a mot

brain of Jove; Whilst I behold such execrable shapes, Methinks I grow like what I contemplate, And laugh and stare in loaths

nkest we will rend thee bone from bone, And nerve from nerve, working like fire within!     Pro. Pain is my element, as hate

bscure not The soul which burns within, that we will dwell Beside it, like a vain, loud multitude, Vexing the self-content o

e astonished heart, And blood within thy labyrinthine veins, Crawling like agony.     Pro. Why use me thus now, Yet am I kin

from the watery bowers, Leads the long order of ethereal powers. When like the morning mist in early days, Rose from the flo

ne, among the maids, Diverts herself in these delicious shades; While like a child with busy speed and care, She gathers lil

nd every morning at sunrise, as if in welcome of the divine luminary, like that which is heard at the breaking of the string

conception was a heavenly guest, A ray of immortality, and stood Star like , around, until they gathered to a God! “And if i

ds white, the huntress wept Till morning, and looked thro’, on nights like this His lashes dark, and left her dewy kiss; But

ilver bow Fabled of old? —————————— ………………………………………………… What art thou like ? sometimes I see thee ride A far bound galley on

med, “I do not see the hills and valleys of my native land.” A speech like this, only drew forth the laughter of his captors

vine, and the magpie, because wine makes the tongue of man to chatter like that of the bird. The ivy was consecrated to him,

l enervate us, consume our health, render us loquacious and childish, like old men, and unable to keep secrets. Bacchus is s

old men, and unable to keep secrets. Bacchus is sometimes represented like an infant, holding a thyrsus and clusters of grap

of grapes, with a horn. His beauty is compared to that of Apollo, and like him, he is represented with fine hair, flowing lo

ce of Praxiteles. It was formed of white marble, and appeared so much like life, that, according to some historians, a youth

iastic imagination of the Apollo of the capital, or the union of both like the Apollo Belvidere, have the tenderness of arch

ve, A summer’s day; and with the setting sun, Dropped from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” Milt

esented to possess. ———————— “He taught Man’s earth-born race, that, like the bestial brood, Haunted the rugged cave, or sh

o forged the lightning shaft, and gave to Jove His thunder; they were like unto the gods, Save that a single ball of sight w

f that she was Venus, visiting the earth.     “In her bower she lay, like a snow-wreath flung,     Mid flowers of brightest

s represented as amusing himself with childish diversions. Sometimes, like a conqueror, he marches triumphantly with a helme

April diadem Of flowers, telling they mourned one,     Faded and fair like them. “I turned to tales of other days,     They

ty are divine. Upon its lips and eyelids seems to lie,     Loveliness like a shadow, from which shine, Fiery and lurid, stru

hile his chariot Waits at the door of heaven. Thou art not For scenes like this; an empire stern hast thou; And it hath furr

her garments float around; Again, again she rises light, Her head is like a fountain bright, And her glossy ringlets fall W

d her glossy ringlets fall With a murmur musical, O’er her shoulders, like a river That rushes and escapes for ever. Is the

xion ruddy, his nose flat, and his legs, thighs, tail and feet hairy, like those of a goat. When he was brought into the wor

some gentle tone         Wakening haply one, Calls a thousand forth, like thee replying! Strange sweet Echo, even like thee

Calls a thousand forth, like thee replying! Strange sweet Echo, even like thee replying.” Hemans. This god, so adored and

knowledged soon the great transforming power, In weight and substance like a mass of ore. He plucked the corn, and straight

the passions and excite love, being sacred to him. The Sylvans, were, like the Fauns and Satyrs, the guardian deities of the

owing In falls to her feet, and the blue waters rolled Down her limbs like a garment, in many a fold.” Hood. Struck with e

————— “The Witch Queen of that place, Even Circe the Cruel, that came like a death Which I feared, and yet fled not, for wan

of sympathy, and the repression of that human feeling which yet clung like a curse to him. “For the haunters of fields, the

f women, the friendship of men In past sorrow, no kindness, e’er came like a kiss On my heart in its desolate day, such as t

her side A bevy of bright nymphs, with sober grace,) Came glittering like a star, and took her place. Her heavenly form beh

frail snow-drop, Born of the breath of winter, and on his brow, Fixed like a pale and solitary star, The languid hyacinth, a

tar, The languid hyacinth, and wild primrose, And daisy, trodden down like modesty, The fox-glove, in whose drooping-bells t

Vertumnus too pursued the maid no less, But with his rivals, shared a like success.” Ovid. Miserable, but not cast down, b

the Beneath some stately forest’s antique boughs. Oh! art hath nought like this, the very air Breatheth of beauty, banishing

of the chase. “I saw old Autumn in the misty morn, Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird

lent creek Thessalia’s coast can show, Two arms project, and shape it like a bow; ’Twould make a bay, but the transparent ti

owny breast.” Darwin. He usually resided on the Carpathian sea, and like the rest of the sea gods, reposed upon the shore,

than her body, below the ‌waist, was changed into frightful monsters, like dogs, which never ceased barking, while the remai

she is seen holding two children under her arms, one of which is dark like night, and the other light like day. “Night, whe

under her arms, one of which is dark like night, and the other light like day. “Night, when like perfumes that have slept

which is dark like night, and the other light like day. “Night, when like perfumes that have slept All day within the wild

ughed, but for good breeding; While old Hymen, who was used to, Cries like that these dames gave loose to,         ‘Take bac

ne; And where, through marble grots beneath,     The lifeless, ranged like sacred things, Nor wanting aught of life, but bre

Can work, when love conspires and plays his part. The passive savages like statues stand, While he their dewlap strokes with

soothing hand; ‌To unknown yokes their brawny necks they yield, And like tame oxen, plough the wondering field. The Colchi

ood: Your father’s life and health are in your hand, And can ye thus, like idle gazers stand? Unless you are of common sense

other ills I mourn! Hercules. Whom hast thou known involved in ills like these? Theseus. Thy vast misfortunes reach from

s its waves, the sea, And every fountain whence the rivers flow. Thus like Ixions, on the whirling wheel In chains, will be

ted through his bones, and attaching itself to the flesh, eat into it like fire. “She now resolves to send the fatal vest,

nly, the burning pile was surrounded with dark smoke, the fire burned like a furnace, and when it had consumed the mortal po

n plains, And still the unhappy fruitfulness remains. Thence Perseus, like a cloud, by storms was driv’n, Thro’ all the expa

s his frame, his burned eyes, Dropped tears which hung upon the stone like ice; In suppliant posture, with uplifted hands An

wn, it is universally agreed however, that he received divine honours like the rest of the ancient heroes. Insérer image ano

s he, A proud and mighty spirit: how fine his form, Gigantic! moulded like the race that strove To take Jove’s heaven by sto

Look, Alvine, That statue is young Theseus!     Alvine. Glorious! How like a god he stands, one haughty hand Raised in defia

ain.     Hip. I scarcely dare believe mine ears, a dream Seems on me, like a man in sleep, A mass of dim confusion gathers r

f those     That swelled the rolling blast, And his steps fell hushed like snows, —     ’Twas the shade of Theseus passed!  

listening plain: The female Bacchanals devoutly mad, In shaggy skins, like savage creatures clad, Warbling in air perceived

es of love and death All from her woman’s heart, in sudden song Burst like a fount of fire,                                

? Methinks there’s not a hand that grasps thy hell, But should run up like flax, all blazing fire. Stand from this spot, I w

he remembrance flashed across his mind, that he was to die in a place like this, that such had been the decree of the oracle

ncient poets have represented him in hell, as the place, which crimes like his, would seem to deserve. Insérer image anonyme

stands Close to the river’s margin, and with shouts Demands the war, like an impatient steed, That pants upon the foaming c

s remain. Tereus, through grief, and haste to be revenged, Shares the like fate, and to a bird is changed: Fixed on his head

his head, the crested plumes appear; Long is his beak, and sharpened like a spear; Thus armed, his looks his inward mind di

y were treated with great kindness, and from thence to Sparta, where, like the remainder of the Greek princes, they sought t

— my hands — my face — my garment, All, all are blood. Ah! for a deed like this What vengeance shall be wreaked? I see alrea

your approach. Look on me; smile with me at my illusion — You are so like what you have ever been (Except in sorrow!) I mig

s of her fixed eye, Which on the young Sicilian shepherd’s face Shone like a star — ’Twas strange that she, a high sea-nymph

sea, but oft on summer nights Noises were heard, and plaintive music like , The songs you hear in Sicily — shepherd swains F

arth’s luxury. The measure of its happiness is full, When all around, like it, is beautiful. There were sweet birds to count

In this he became so proficient, that his marble busts seemed almost like life — and one, the figure of a female, was regar

towed in love on Phaon. “A youth so shaped, with such a mien, A form like that of Jove serene, With sparkling eyes, and flo

sdain for her who had so quickly given herself to his arms. To a mind like Sappho’s, finely wrought, as that of poets usuall

fe, whom he enfolds in his arms. His complexion is blue, his eyes are like the flowers of the lotos, and his visage burns wi

ped by them; she was obtained by one of them through a stratagem very like that employed by Jupiter with Europa. They pay ho

s the goddess of pleasure, and the god of war. The former was fabled, like Venus, to have arisen from the sea when agitated

They uttered oracles, devoted themselves to a lasting virginity, and like the vestals of the Greek and Roman mythology, kep

rightful, is marked with two blue lines. He has two vast wings formed like a bat, and the feet of a goat; while in his middl

ology_1842_img290 Polynesia. The inhabitants of Polynesia, are, like all those whose faith is primitive and simple, de

of our epics, dramas, lyrics, and novels, of our essays and orations, like a golden warp where the woof is only too often of

tion must be made between the fable and the myth. A fable is a story, like that of King Log, or the Fox and the Grapes, in w

ur Norse and German forefathers in the dark ages. Myths, more or less like these, may be found in the literatures of nearly

ken in the morning; sank as Hercules upon a blazing funeral-pyre, or, like Agamemnon, perished in a blood-stained bath; or,

, — his responsibility, are the centre of interest. In romantic myths like the Odyssey this sense of freedom does not impel

due allowance for the discrepancy in mental development, imaginations like our own, there is nothing in the history of reaso

g. For, at the present time, not only children and simple-minded men, like sailors or mountaineers, but cultivated men of or

nd winds move, the savage invests them with free-will and personality like man’s. In proportion, however, as their size is g

pon them human and superhuman passions and powers? If we were living, like the Greek of old, close to the heart of nature, s

ames for objects of nature. It does not attempt to show how an object like the ocean came to be male, and not female, or how

giants against heaven.” There are doubtless many curious coincidences like these, but the theory cannot, without extravaganc

hing around them as having life and the parts and passions of persons like themselves. “The sky, sun, wind, sea, earth, moun

avages to-day abound in adventures based upon qualities and incidents like these. If these stories should survive in the lit

nd silly and cruel to the descendants of our contemporary savages. In like manner, “as the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and No

ceremonials… We may believe that ancient and early tribes framed gods like themselves in action and in experience, and that

nstant fire, whatever in humanity is skilful and wise; and the other, like the living air, breathes the calm of heavenly for

nadequate. It is, moreover, not likely that many historical incidents like those related in the Iliad and the Odyssey happen

vably have spread from a single centre, and been handed on from races like the Indo-European and Semitic to races as far rem

ght survive into civilized literature.” 19 The distribution of myth, like its origin, is inexplicable by any one theory. Th

court to court, and in occasional hymns sung by privileged harpists, like Demodocus of Phæacia,21 in honor of a chieftain,

e Trojan War and myths of the two wars against Thebes.27 Hesiod is, like Homer, one of the most important sources of our k

ned the stories into poetic gold; Hesiod has gathered them in the ore like so many specimens for a museum. A company of Lyri

us that River Ocean, a deep and mighty flood, encircling land and sea like a serpent with its tail in its mouth, was the sou

nakes. They were awful to encounter or to look upon. They were named, like men, the earth-born; and their characteristics wo

ain records, her proud designation of Pallas-Athene.57 In due course, like the Titans and Typhon, the Giants were buried in

Last came the hardest age and worst, the Age of Iron. Crime burst in like a flood; modesty, truth, and honor fled. The gift

scourge of lightning. He wore a breastplate or shield of storm-cloud like the skin of a gray goat (the Ægis), fearful to be

achievement of Grecian sculpture. It was of colossal dimensions, and, like other statues of the period, “chryselephantine”;

sent up in honor of the rite a tree of life, heavy with apples golden like the sunset. Juno was the most worthy of the godde

choes of heaven and earth. She is goddess of the lightning that leaps like a lance from the cloud-heavy sky, and hence, prob

owever, though naturally gracious, gentle, and a healer of ills, was, like her brother, quick to resent injury to her sacred

nd borne upon the surge, she won first the island of Cythera; thence, like a dream, she passed to Cyprus, where the grace an

on of the Messenger was to conduct the souls of the dead “that gibber like bats as they fare, down the dank ways, past the s

e for sleep in russet shade. “His lips, more red than any rose, Were like a flower that overflows With honey pure and sweet

goddess of death, sitting beside Pluto, she directs the Furies, and, like her husband, is cruel, unyielding, inimical to yo

; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are upgathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we ar

His name in the plural, Fauni, expressed a class of gamesome deities, like the Satyrs of the Greeks. There was also a goddes

he arose, and began to seek the dear maidens of her company, girls of like age with herself, born in the same year, beloved

the splendor of the crimson rose, and shone preëminent among them all like the foam-born goddess among the Graces. Verily, s

her deep-tressed maidens, saying, — “Come, dear playmates, maidens of like age with me, let us mount the bull here and take

f us! And how mild he is, and dear, and gentle to behold, and no whit like other bulls! A mind as honest as a man’s possesse

t they could not reach her. The strand he gained, and forward he sped like a dolphin, faring with unwetted hooves over the w

sea’s infinite spray. And her deep robe was swelled out by the winds, like the sail of a ship, and lightly still did waft th

k? The deathless longings tamed, that I should seethe My soul in love like any shepherd girl? One night he sware to grant wh

t quenching thirst, till they died. On all sides lay my people strewn like over-ripened apples beneath the tree, or acorns u

ilemon begin to put forth leaves, and Philemon saw Baucis changing in like manner. While still they exchanged parting words,

ther so adroitly that the joining deceives the eye. And the effect is like the bow whose long arch tinges the heavens, forme

slight, Fluttering among the olives wantonly, That seemed to live, so like it was in sight; The velvet nap which on his wing

in the cave lurked a serpent with crested head and scales glittering like gold; his eyes shone like fire; his body was swol

ent with crested head and scales glittering like gold; his eyes shone like fire; his body was swollen with venom; he vibrate

ith an arrow from another. The latter fell victim to a fourth, and in like manner the whole crowd dealt with each other till

at and from existence. Phaëton, with his hair on fire, fell headlong, like a shooting star which marks the heavens with its

d upon his shoulders in his wrath, as the god moved; and he descended like to night. Then he sate him aloof from the ships,

hey cannot in the course of nature live much longer, and who can feel like them the call to rescue the life they gave from a

ts Into a rage to suffer for mankind, And recommence at sorrow: drops like seed After the blossom, ultimate of all. Say, doe

kles, “Take hold of her. See now, my friend, if she look not somewhat like that wife thou hast lost.” Ah, but the tears co

lovers, she prayed her father that she might remain always unmarried, like Diana. He consented, but, at the same time, warne

a strange kind of smile he put on when he thought of her. “My case is like Dido’s,” he sometimes remarked; “When I last saw

ed at her prayer; And under the water The Earth’s white daughter Fled like a sunny beam; Behind her descended Her billows un

to sweet air; and sobered morning came Meekly through billows: — when like taper-flame Left sudden by a dallying breath of a

te her charms, now rambled through the woods and over the hills, girt like the huntress Diana. She chased game that is safe

he dawn of morning; but his accents were full of love, and inspired a like passion in her. Often, she begged him to stay and

less mortals glad; For while her limbs were sunk in deadly sleep Most like to death, over her heart ‘gan creep Ill dreams; s

d, And, looking in her face, was strooken blind. But this is true: so like was one the other, As he imagined Hero was his mo

e, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: The reason no man knows; let it

deceive a maid? Ay me! such words as these should I abhor, And yet I like them for the orator.’ With that Leander stoop’d t

olour chang’d, And here and there her eyes through anger rang’d; And, like a planet moving several ways At one self instant,

s art was so perfect that it concealed itself, and its product looked like the workmanship of nature. Pygmalion at last fell

er version of the story, he said not, “bid mine image live,” but “one like my ivory virgin.” At any rate, with such a prayer

nt that the priests had laid Upon the goddess on that very morn, Dyed like the setting sun upon the corn. Speechless he sto

e thou knowest well, And from my hand a heavy thing there fell Carved like these flowers, nor could I see things clear, But

ar, And harmonize their steps with stately care; Bent to the morning, like a living rose, The immortal splendor of his face

ied his teeth. He took a glass of wine, but it flowed down his throat like melted gold. Fig. 58. Silenus. [Bronze lamp: H

[Vase picture: Baumeister.] When Ceres heard this, she stood a while like one stupefied; then she implored Jupiter to inter

ead My helpless arms… thine, thine no more… to thee.” She spake, and, like a vapour, into air Flew, nor beheld him as he cla

was still warm when the Greeks marched against Troy.213 § 109. Of a like impetuous and ungovernable temper were the sons o

of his daughter, he had provided himself with horses whose speed was like the cyclone. But Pelops, obtaining from Neptune w

wings, to the Hæmonian city, where he assumed the form of Ceÿx. Pale like a dead man, naked and dripping, he stood before t

Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream The ever silent spaces of the East, F

nd sweet, Like that strange song I heard Apollo sing, While Ilion like a mist rose into towers. “Yet hold me not fore

year at the anniversary of his death they celebrated his obsequies in like manner. Aurora remained inconsolable. The dew-dro

id that when the first rays of morning fell upon this statue, a sound like the snapping of a harp-string issued therefrom.22

230 Dusky-leaved, shaggy-rooted, Is a pillow well suited To a hybrid like me, Goat-bearded, goat-footed; For the boughs of

0. The Naiads guarded streams and fountains of fresh water; kept them like the Naiad of the following verses, sacred for Dia

ing, flowing, flowing, And ah! his face was worn and sad! “Mild joys like silvery waters fall; But it is sweetest, sweetest

ts thousand lights, And sounds of revel fell upon his ear Harshly and like a curse; above, the sky, With all its bright subl

ll see, they persecuted Orestes, who had slain his mother. Therefore, like the accusing voice of conscience, they marshalled

, still on to the end of life, we give no peace, no rest.” Stillness like the stillness of death sat over the assembly. Sud

straightway dost thou depart when sweet sleep lets me go, fleeing me like an ewe that has seen the gray wolf. I fell in lov

utterly of self-intent, Moving but with the mighty ebb and flow. Then like a new-fledged bird that first doth show His sprea

t her command opened itself, and let him enter, while it stood heaped like a mountain on either side. Cyrene and her nymphs,

beauty are divine. Upon its lips and eyelids seems to lie Loveliness like a shadow, from which shine, Fiery and lurid, stra

; and throwing him into a deep sleep, she laid him on a bed of herbs, like one dead. No eye profane looked upon her mysterie

led over, the grass wherever the sprinklings fell leaped into verdure like that of spring. Seeing that all was ready, Medea

lant indrawn to a tightening throat, Grave, and with gathered sinews, like a god, — Aimed on the left side his well handled

Lit with a low blush to the braided hair, And rose-colored and cold like very dawn, Golden and godlike, chastely with chas

for him a labyrinth, with passages and turnings winding in and about like the river Mæander, so that whoever was enclosed i

elf the spirit and the soul of a hero, and eager to signalize himself like Hercules, determined on the more perilous and adv

ss lip with unvoiced tribute of incense, Suppliant, not in vain: for, like to an oak upon Taurus, Gnarled, swinging his arms

vain: for, like to an oak upon Taurus, Gnarled, swinging his arms, — like some cone-burthened pine-tree Oozing the life fro

rne me a damsel beholden, Fain to obey thy will, and to lave thy feet like a servant, Fain to bedeck thy couch with purple c

the constellations in Heaven that glitter were jangled. Straightway like some cloud on the inward vision of Theseus. Dropp

ecked herself, He with them struck the pupils of his eyes, With words like these: “Because they had not seen What ills he su

have seen, Nor know the dear ones whom he fain had known.” With such like wails, not once or twice alone, Raising his eyes

rmost border of purple, While on ambrosial brows there rested fillets like snowflakes. They, at a task eternal their hands r

op, ye thread-running spindles! “Erstwhile, never a home hath roofed like generous loving, Never before hath Love conjoined

was undertaken. Of Atreus it may be said that with cannibal atrocity like that of his grandsire, Tantalus, he on one occasi

ors they received under the name of Dioscuri (sons of Jove). ———— So like they were, no mortal Might one from other know; W

d so the other inhabitants of heaven might be induced to interpose in like manner whenever any of their offspring were endan

ons. “Think, O Achilles,” he said, “of thine own father, full of days like me, and trembling on the gloomy verge of life. Ev

lance at the horse’s side. It struck, and a hollow sound reverberated like a groan. Then perhaps the people might have taken

yes, ever to seem Falling asleep in a half-dream! To dream and dream, like yonder amber light Which will not leave the myrrh

cold: Our sons inherit us: our looks are strange: And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy. “… But, propt on beds of

mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind…” The Cyclop

the beggar was admitted in the halls of chieftains, and often treated like a guest; though sometimes, also, no doubt, with c

rd myself And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human

nimble it was almost impossible to hit them, and their feathers were, like armor, impenetrable to steel. One of them, perche

Cyclopes came forth from their caves and woods, and lined the shore, like a row of lofty pine-trees. The Trojans plied thei

t excellent part, fire, and became flame. This material was scattered like seed among the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, an

vest, nor provide from present abundance for future want; but browsed like beasts upon the leafy boughs, or fed voraciously

ced the comely bosom of Euryalus. His head fell over on his shoulder, like a flower cut down by the plough. Nisus rushed upo

zentius, finding himself engaged against his revolted subjects, raged like a wild beast. He slew all who dared withstand him

ns in the contests ye have had with my followers. In the first, Loki, like hunger itself, devoured all that was set before h

, and have moreover nothing to throw.” “Come, then,” said Loki, “do like the rest, and show honor to Balder by throwing th

e dark his hest So quickly, and will wait for no reply? The voice was like the unhappy Höder’s voice. Howbeit I will see, an

golden beds Hearing the wrathful father* coming home — For dread, for like a whirlwind Odin came. And to Valhalla’s gate he

ters will pass without being tempered by a single summer. Three other like winters will follow, during which war and discord

ty man there came, One-eyed and seeming ancient, but his visage shone like flame; Gleaming-gray was his kirtle, and his hood

piled that day. To Hiordis, after Sigmund’s death, was born Sigurd, like whom was never man for comeliness and valor and g

, 519, 583, and Il Penseroso 24. See Robert Buchanan, Cloudland, “One like a Titan cold,” etc.; Keats. Hyperion. In Art. —

phinx. (See figure, § 172.) The statue was forty feet in height, and, like the Jupiter, covered with ivory and gold. The eye

ve, A summer’s day; and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” In

e the phenomena of mesmerism have attracted attention: that something like the mesmeric trance was induced in the Pythoness,

4: 3; Ant. and Cleo. 2: 7 (song); Shelley, Ode to Liberty 7, Rome — “ like a Cadmæan Mænad”; Keats, To a Nightingale, “Not c

remote times, traced their descent from a she-bear, and if they also, like other races, recognized a bear in a certain const

ight-man; Lycus, the man of light. Amphion and Zethus are thought, in like fashion, to represent manifestations of light: se

. The heifer that he is to follow is, therefore, still another cloud ( like the cattle of the Sun: clouds, § 171). The dragon

e shell-fish. On the leaves of the hyacinth were inscribed characters like Ai, Ai, the Greek exclamation of woe. It is evide

heats of summer. The Hyacinthian festival seems to have celebrated — like the Linus festival and the Eleusinian — the trans

ather of Phaëthon (ordinarily anglicized Phaëton). The name Phaëthon, like the name Phœbus, means “the radiant one.” The sun

ax Müller cites the Peruvian Inca who said that if the sun were free, like fire, he would visit new parts of the heavens. “H

re, he would visit new parts of the heavens. “He is,” said the Inca, “ like a tied beast who goes ever round and round in the

Deceased Wife, “Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave, Whom Jove’s great son to

rpine: see §§ 48, 50. The windflower of the Greeks was of bloody hue, like that of the pomegranate. It is said the wind blow

ip came from Thrace, a proverbially barbarous clime; — but wandering, like the spring-tide, over the face of the earth, Bacc

of that unexpected return of fine weather which occurs so frequently, like an omen of Spring, just before Winter closes in.

y and Macedonia. Interpretative. — The loss of Eurydice may signify ( like the death of Adonis and the rape of Proserpine) t

inted and were thrown into convulsions, and the magistrates forbade a like representation for the future. (Pollux IV: 110.)

s). Gorgons and Medusa. Spenser, Epithalamion, “And stand astonished like to those which read Medusa’s mageful head.” Milto

ith the Amazons (clouds, we may suppose, in some form or other), and, like him he descends to the underworld. Ariadne may be

derworld. Ariadne may be another twilight-sweetheart of the sun, and, like Medea and Dejanira, she must be deserted. She is

, a local nature-goddess of Naxos and Crete, who, in process of time, like Medea, sank to the condition of a heroine. Probab

e of Bacchus, she appears to have been a promoter of vegetation; and, like Proserpina, she alternated between the joy of spr

’s description of the ships of the Phæacians has been thought to look like an anticipation of the wonders of modern steam na

The bull Apis must have certain distinguishing marks; he was treated like a god; and on his death (he was drowned at twenty

men, their guardian and companion, passing between heaven and earth “ like a messenger between two hamlets” (Lat. ignis; cf.

n (or Ly-coph′ron), Com. § 11. Ly-cur′gus: a king of the Edones, who, like Pentheus, resisted the worship of Bacchus. Ly′cus

ne, 233; a fountain in Corinth, said to have started from the ground ( like Hippocrene) under a kick of Pegasus. Pisis′tratus

hould keep who can. A literary work, whether the creation of genius, like Waverley, or the product of toil and patient indu

f genius, like Waverley, or the product of toil and patient industry, like the present, is I conceive property in the fulles

the under-world under the care of the same herdsman. This looks very like two different forms of the same legend ; the hero

y further infer that the temple at the Aventine contained three cellœ like that on the Capitoline. Page 522. — The critics s

hed the father of gods and men and ruler of heaven. These deities, so like to man in form, were held to exceed him far in po

form, were held to exceed him far in power and knowledge, but to be, like him, under the influence of passion and appetite.

dwelt in celestial houses, but similar in form to those of man ; and, like man, they stood in daily need of food and repose.

uch. When a people had thus formed for themselves a System of gods so like to man, and yet ruling over the world, it was nat

in their efforts to connect the religions of Greece and India. 2. In like manner the mythes themselves should be considered

as the birth-place of the Grecian religion and mythology ; they were, like the language and manners of the people, a portion

one is as far beyond our attainment as that of the other. The Greeks, like most of the ancient nations, were little inclined

ascertaining whether they supposed it to communicate with the Ocean, like the western part of the Sea. Of Colchis and Cauca

e of the hollow sphere of the world, and encompassed the middle of it like a rim. The armillary sphere would thus give us an

rather than round, its greater diameter running east and west130. In like manner in the time of Pindar131 and Æschylus132 t

ms, produced plants and flowers, and contained minerals in its bowels like earth ; like which also it had the vicissitudes o

plants and flowers, and contained minerals in its bowels like earth ; like which also it had the vicissitudes of night and d

e think, telluric powers151, and have undergone a change of character like the Giants, Hermes, and other similar beings ; or

s166. At a much later age it is alluded to by Nonnus167. Milton, who, like the Alexandrians, loved to bring forward recondit

calls him ‘the ruler of fire-breathing steeds’. It is probable that, like the other Homeric gods, Helios had originally onl

been in the reign of Kronos, when, according to Hesiod318, Men lived like gods, with minds devoid of care, Away from toils

y the aid of their golden shoes : when at home in their houses, they, like the men of those ages, went barefoot. The Titans,

e Titans, as we have seen, were twelve in number, six of each sex. In like manner we find twelve Olympians, similarly divide

, whose ancient oracle moreover was in the oak-woods of Dodona403. In like manner the eagle was evidently the bird best suit

ers, Horkios, the guardian of oaths, were numerous. He was also named like the other gods from the places where he was worsh

d for his service he placed the dolphin among the stars418. Poseidôn, like his brother Zeus, had a numerous progeny both by

latter Zeus decided that they should hold the dominion in common. In like manner Poseidôn is said to have contended with He

, Tænaron, Geræstos, and other headlands455. Poseidôn is represented, like Zeus, of a serene and majestic aspect ; his form

of Subterrane (χθονία). The former would seem to have been placatory, like Eumenides that of the Erinnyes. The epithet Peopl

heroes of them, who were the offspring of Zeus by mortal mothers. In like manner, as the goddess of Argos, she is active in

p A bird, whose wings with many coulours glow’d : Spreading his tail, like a swift-sailing ship, The golden basket’s edge he

ference to the marriage of Hera. The disappearance of the image looks like the carrying away of the betrothed maiden ; the w

one of the telluric powers in the Pelasgian creed, and to think that, like those of Hermes and Pallas-Athene, his character

their skill from the teaching of Apollo or of the Muses. Prophets in like manner were taught by him ; at Pytho he himself r

high and bright with his waves, emulating the Enipeus of Homer. For, like Homer. Alcæus ventures to make the very water cap

unterpart. Artemis was a spotless virgin ; her chief joy was to speed like a Dorian maid over the hills, followed by a train

one in Erebos. This will also give a very simple reason for her being like Eileithyia, the aider of women in labour. If Arte

le at Leucophrys on the coast704 ; and it becomes a question whether ( like Artemis of Ephesus, with whom she must have been

haracter to the employment of the lyre in his worship. Artemis may in like manner have been regarded as the goddess of the c

able moment. He seized the hand of the goddess, and ‘led her blushing like the morn’ into the rustic shed. When evening appr

after all have been, as some think, nothing more than a Milesian tale like that of the Matron of Ephesus783. We, however, ra

er protection, assuming a human form to be his guide and director. In like manner Cadmos, Heracles, Perseus, and other heroe

fied Head in some of the obscurer dialects of Greece819. But accounts like this are very suspicious, and the later Greeks wo

golden sandals, which bear him over the water and the extensive earth like the blasts of the wind,’ and takes ‘his rod, with

ys a recreation of the shepherds in the warm regions of the south. In like manner as the shepherd-lads amuse themselves with

she tore her head-attire with grief, cast a dark robe around her, and like a bird hurried ‘over moist and dry.’ Of all she i

of the babe, who was named Demophoôn, and beneath her care ‘he throve like a god.’ He ate no food, but Demeter breathed on h

r bosom, and anointed him with ambrosia, and every night she hid him ‘ like a torch within the strength of fire,’ unknown to

is fair charge safe to Eleusis : Demeter on seeing her ‘rushed to her like a Mænas on the wood-shaded hill,’ and Persephone

a Mænas on the wood-shaded hill,’ and Persephone sprang from the car ‘ like a bird,’ and kissed her mother’s hands and head.

f a very rural character, the view generally taken is that they were, like our modern political œconomists, a race who thoug

deities but such as were promoters of increase. We however deem that, like every other people, the Pelasgians believed in a

s, and of excluding strangers from their worship. Private families in like manner excluded their fellow-citizens from their

ices ; and in those states where ancient statues, aërolites, and such like were preserved as national palladia, the sight of

urrent among the people in Germany and Scandinavia954. In fact, this, like almost every other article of popular belief, has

the rivulet, (the very terms prattling, babbling, tinkling, and such like , applied to brooks by our poets prove it,) and ev

the reception of poetic images955. Hence it has been said, by him who like the early bards of Greece was one of Nature’s own

3. Odour-full 971 ; etc. .Χάριτϵς Gratiœ. Graces. The Graces, like the Muses and other sister-goddesses, are spoken

son, and signifying Decree. The Theogony of Hesiod limits the Fates, like so many other goddesses, to three, and gives them

rebos for parents1020. In the time of the Alexandrians, the Erinnyes, like the Fates and others, were three in number, named

is unknown. Hesiod1038 says that swift Iris and the Harpies, who fly ‘ like the blasts of the winds or the birds,’ were the c

ory, mark ye, flies With golden wings ; and so, egad, does Love : And like a trembling dove, old Homer saith, Was Iris. Iri

a mortal mother. The vintage is in wine-countries at the present day, like haymaking and harvest-home in England, a time of

ssions, accompanied by the sound of drums and party-coloured dresses, like those worn in the Bacchic orgies of Greece and Le

ers of the conqueror thence took occasion to fable that Dionysos had, like Heracles and their own great king, marched as a c

e dramatists, they do not appear to have been narrated in continuity, like those of Heracles, until long after the decline o

n ; his whole air and gait are effeminate ; his long flowing hair is, like that of Apollo1118, collected behind his head, wr

y the object of worship to the lower classes, the goatherds, and such like (in Attica the tribe of the Ægicoreis) ; and that

ding to the usual practice were named after their god,) was probably, like Adonis, a personification of the Sun, of whose un

which still existed, brought forth these deities, were with them.” In like manner the people of Tegyra in Bœotia appropriate

rmes1224 or Adonis1225, or even Zeus himself for a sire1226. Priapos, like the other rural gods, is of a ruddy complexion. H

cutting off the head carry it about ; and the head with the horns is like the lyre made from the tortoise1244 ’ The word Ny

and Galateia, who was loved by the Cyclôps Polyphemos. The Nereïdes, like all the other female deities, were originally con

: their nostrils are those of a man, but their teeth are broader, and like those of a wild beast : their eyes seem to me azu

fish : they have, instead of feet, fins under their breast and belly, like those of the porpoise.” Πρωτεύς. Proteus.

rth book of the Odyssey Homer introduces this sea-god. He styles him, like Nereus and Phorcys, a Seaelder 1257, and gives hi

o all analogy of Grecian mythology, Palæmôn and Ino-Leucothea (a form like Phœbos-Apollo, Pallas-Athene) were original water

s having their heads environed with scaly snakes, and with huge teeth like those of swine, brazen hands and golden wings. Th

ey : he then seized two of the Greeks, and dashing them to the ground like young whelps killed and devoured them. When he fe

told us with what wind they sailed to it, if it had been at anything like the distance which Sicily is from Libya : and fur

its eastern position1374, but which requires a sleight of ingenuity, like that just noticed, to make it suit the West. On s

it with a bow. In this den dwells Scylla (Bitch), whose voice sounds like that of a young whelp : she has twelve feet, and

the youngest daughter of Eurymedôn king of the Giants1413. They were, like the Cyclopes and Giants, a people akin to the god

went with the velocity of the wing of birds or of thought1419, were, like the Argo, endued with intelligence : they knew ev

om Ogygia, the isle of Scheria appeared to him on the eighteenth day ‘ like a shield in the dark sea’1421 ; and when the stor

TION. Origin and First State of Man. The origin of mankind, like that of the earth their abode, is a subject which

of men, who were in the time when Kronos ruled in heaven. They lived like gods, free from toils and care, and death was to

s of only two parts. The heroes who correspond to the golden race are like them rewarded after death, but in an inferior deg

t in an inferior degree : the iron are menaced with utter destruction like the brazen. This critic is further of opinion tha

ence ; on the contrary, they and mankind were to one another somewhat like patrons and clients, lords and vassals. The latte

could not well dispense with the gifts and respect of men ; and men, like the tenants of griping landlords, were obliged to

ve it human voice and strength, and to make the fair form of a virgin like the immortal goddesses : he desired Athena to end

accounts of the two great events of the Creation and Fall of man. In like manner the important event of the Deluge has a pl

ermes, when the Achæan and Hellenic characters prevailed, the deities like the people put off the rustic character, their at

elf by hiding them in the temple of the goddess1556, whose priestess, like Io, she probably was in this mythe. It is also re

ccording to the simple earnestness of early mythology, is represented like an earthly prince receiving his suppliant to his

s further a thing most incredible, that a seafaring commercial people like the Phœnicians should have selected as the site o

l was at all times named the Cadmeia. Cadmos is therefore apparently ( like Pelasgos, Doros, Iôn, Thessalos, and so many othe

herself may refer to the brightness (σέλας) of water, and her name be like Electra, Galateia, Galene, Glauce, Ianthe, and ot

Their son was Labdacos, who on succeeding his father opposed himself like Pentheus to the religion of Dionysos, and underwe

. It is indeed not improbable that this poet represented these twins, like those of Leda, as being the one immortal the othe

ined no being of pure and unmixed evil, but gods of mingled character like men, furnished in the jealous Hera a deity to opp

Heracles falls into fits of madness, sent on him by Hera ; and hence, like the Rinaldo and Ruggiero of romance, he becomes t

d by fire, the purest of elements ; his shade or image (ϵἵδωλον)1787, like those of other men, descends to the realms of Had

y to the mythic analogy, which, though it might devise single mythes, like that of Ixiôn, in order to illustrate some ethic

ciple, never conducted the heroes through a long series of adventures like those of Heracles. The mythology of this hero is

h in it to which it is difficult to refuse assent. But we think that, like his theory of Apollo, it is too much affected by

oreign country, but was born in, and as it were from, the land ; and, like autochthones in general, to have had a body compo

rse and Pandrosos are the same in signification, it is probable that, like the Athenian Graces and Seasons, the Cecropides w

e habits and properties of animals. The twitter of the swallow sounds like Itys, Itys ; the note of the nightingale was stra

self the spirit and the soul of a hero, resolved to signalise himself like Heracles, with whose fame all Greece now rang, by

le and swallow, which was perhaps only appropriated by the Athenians, like that of Oreithyia, and possibly that of Cephalos

ed to the military class. The name Creüsa (Princess) in this legend, ( like that of it and Creôn (Prince) in so many others,)

ikely that the god and the prince were the same person. Pallas may in like manner have been connected with the patron-goddes

late times, and said to be the work of his hands. Icaros (from εἴκω, like εἰκὼν, ἴκελος) was a suitable name for his son, a

before there was any intercourse with the great land of mystery, and like that of Io have been subsequently modified so as

she had a temple on the Larissa or citadel1951, whence she was named, like Hera, Of-the-Height (Ἀкρία or Aкρίς)1952. Hence i

d that mythes were generally very simple in their origin, and gained, like streams, in their progress. It is probable that t

had many wives, by whom he became the father of fifty sons, who were like himself impious and cruel. Zeus, to satisfy himse

the more correct form of the legend, are their wives2017. Helena, in like manner, had her temples2018 ; and there is some r

connected with the fount Peirene2027 ; Tyro may be Tryo (Penetrator), like Tritôn and Amphitrite2028. Μϵλάμπους καὶ Βίς.

, are appropriate names for the parents of a soothsayer. Melampûs is ( like Œdipûs) an ambiguous name ; and Black-foot is as

. Some said he was made immortal for his righteousness ; others that, like Ixiôn, when raised to heaven he made love to Hera

designed to take the place of the mythic rock. The name Tantalos is, like Sisyphos, a reduplication2056, and his mythe is e

oloured cow in his herd, and that he who could best tell what she was like could restore his son to life. The soothsayers we

hich he is familiar. Hence many legends of rocks, mountains, and such like . The sky too offers its similitudes ; there is, f

also named the ‘Bunch’2143) might easily have suggested the idea. In like manner we think it probable that the true signifi

es was Vergiliæ, or rather perhaps Virgiliæ, i. e. the ‘Bunch-stars,’ like the Greek name2145. Oriôn was named by the Latins

em, changed himself into a horse, and by them had twelve foals, which like the celestial steeds could run on the ears of cor

true as that of any other people. We have thus seen that the heroes, like the gods, of Greece were the pure creations of im

e would raise a hymn to accompany the sacrifice to a god, could only, like a Christian bard, extol his goodness and implore

admitted not of the births, marriages and generations of its deities, like that of Greece, it usually represented them in pa

f honour but from reason, both because he was before man, and because like a father he gives life, health and food.” To this

es and Titienses, as it were, of heaven ; and of the Select Gods2269, like the Select Judges ; and we also meet with a Plebs

t as the pledge of empire ; and having had eleven others made exactly like it by the artist Mamurius, to deceive those who m

presumption in favour of the original rural character of Venus, that, like Pales, her name is of both genders. Thus we meet

Ocean. 110. That is, men only as tall as the fist, from πυγμή, fist, like our Tom Thumb. 111. Od. iv. 563. 112. Works and

mn iv. 37. seq.), who says, alluding to her name, that she came down ‘ like a star.’ This was probably the more ancient versi

d districts, according to which an animal or plant, whose name sounds like theirs, becomes as it were their arms. In the dep

ops they fly aloft in the air their melodious melancholy voices sound like trumpets heard in the distance.» — Faber, Geschic

. Il. v. 390. 830. Il. xiv. 490. 831. Il. xiv. 180. Perhaps Phylas, like , ϕυλλὰς, ϕύλλον comes from ϕύω. 832. Il. xx. 35 

. The Egyptians had a similar story of their Isis, borrowed no doubt, like so many others, from the Greeks. See Plut. 887.

t hope her [Lucina’s] brow seemed, and her eyes Darting fresh comfort like the morning skies. — Drayton, Mooncalf. 995.

than Pandora, whom the gods Endowed with all their gifts, and Oh, too like In sad event, when to the unwiser son Of Japhet b

eceding day, the Moon might be the mother of the Sun. Zeus-Epopeus is like Zeus-Tyndareos. 1676. Soph. Antig. 834. Elec. 1

άλα μὲν θίλαι ἦσαν ἑταῖραι. 1677. “Νιόβη, i. e. Νϵόβη (νίοψ, νέοѕ, like θιὸѕ, σιὸѕ for θϵόѕ) a Νέαιρα or Καινώ.” Welcker,

s prophets old. Does not this line afford a presumption that Milton, like Ben Jonson, read Greek by accent ? Nothing can be

uced from ζάω, to blow. Calaïs is probably derived from καіω to burn, like κᾱλον firewood, κήλεοs burning, κηλὰs windy, as κ

85. seq. 1884. Pind. ut sup. ver. 99. Sch. II. vi. 155. Glaucos is, like Ægeus, an epithet of the sea-god. 1885. See abov

oetic adjunct. 2077. The Pelopians, i. e. Illustrious, would be then like the Phlegyans (see p. 347.), the Achæans (p. 301.

ophocles was the death of a son of Odysseus, whose birth was somewhat like that of Soohrâb, and who was sent in quest of him

sense they were, as we have seen, perfectly pure and moral. 2249. In like manner Spain is much richer in romances of chival

opinions, amidst the self-deceptions and gross abuses which grow up, like stilling weeds with it, in the divers faith and o

God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thy brethren like unto me.” This prophet was our Saviour Jesus Chr

a medal struck in the time of the emperor Vitellius, is an impression like the famous statue of the capitol. Did the ancien

his lyre became so melodious, that whenever it was struck, it sounded like that instrument. Having unfortunately killed a ve

ure the shield from being lost, caused several to be made, so exactly like it, that it was almost impossible to distinguish

eve, A summer’s day; and with the setting sun, Drops from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Ægean isle. Parad

th the twelfth revolving light. Iliad, Book I. The heathen deities, like mortals, had their day and night.               

er, and the wings from his heels; Minerva lent him a shield, polished like a mirror: and Pluto bestowed upon him a helmet wh

earth. The Egyptians worshipped a goddess, called by them Isis; who, like the Ceres of the Greeks, conferred the gifts of c

on her head the flower of summer swelled, And blushed all lovely, and like Eden smelled. A garland of the rose; and a white

 Then, on her beryl throne, by Tritons borne, Bright rose the goddess like the star of morn. With rosy fingers, as uncurled

ffused all over the world, while that of the heathens has passed away like a dream of the night. The second celebrated templ

th? Polyphemus. Polyphemus was a son of Neptune, a giant who, like the Cyclops had but one eye. He kept sheep in the

The Harpies had human faces, but bodies of vultures, with long claws like the talons of carnivorous birds. The Harpies not

. These frights are called Panics. The Athenians had a statue of him, like that of Mars. And in some antique gems and sculpt

e names of the Furies? Had the Greeks any notions of God’s government like those expressed in the Scriptures? What were the

r Destinies, sometimes called the Parcæ, and the Fatal Sisters, were, like the Furies, three in number, Clotho, Lachesis, an

om earth in the presence of multitudes, thereby assuring us, that we, like him, shall have everlasting life. “He came,” says

g of gods and men, because he supposed the immortals, except Jupiter, like men, forgot their existence and refreshed their p

ch refused to unite in the same blaze. Hence the expression — hatred, like that of the Theban pair. Another story is related

love each other, that their friendship has become a proverb. To love like Pylades and Orestes , expresses the most faithful

riarchal government over those who lived upon their domains, and who, like the nobles of Europe m the middle ages, called ou

Minor. Bias was contemporary with the wise men previously mentioned —  like them he was a moral philosopher, though little mo

plendent gems. His neck, tongues, and body, are black. His eyes gleam like torches. The skirts of his robes are yellow. A sp

rigibly guilty; but to the penitent he is gracious and relenting. And like the true God, though he is a “consuming fire,” ye

te till they expire, being a long time sustained by others infatuated like themselves, who bring them food. Do the Hindus a

before the gods; who were supposed to be born, to reign, and to die, like earthly monarchs. Odin, or Wodin, was the greates

was the Scandinavian Hell? Who was Vala? Had the Scandinavians a dog like Cerberus? What terrible goddess resided in Niflhe

with life is warmed. Who is he by heaven’s high portal,     Beaming like the light of morn? ’Tis Heimdallar’s form immorta

f the moon. She was esteemed as the cause of abundance, and regarded, like Osiris, to be one of the sources of the inundatio

called Persea was consecrated to him, because its leaves were shaped like a tongue, and the fruit like a heart. He was depi

d to him, because its leaves were shaped like a tongue, and the fruit like a heart. He was depicted as a naked boy, crowned

ek Hercules was a man of irresistible strength, and performed wonders like the Hebrew Samson. Jephthah, a Hebrew general, of

were accounted happy who were thus offered to the gods. The Mexicans, like the Greeks and Romans, believed in the immortalit

etal. In the left hand, this image held a golden fan, highly polished like a mirror, and set around with gay feathers; and i

-zal-cot, or Feathered Serpent, was the god of the air. This god was, like the Saturn of the Romans, a great improver of rud

lebrate his worship. Tlaloc ruled over some inferior water gods, who, like the Naiades of the Greeks, presided over rivulets

god of mirth, one of gold and of merchants, a mother of all the gods, like Cybele, and the Tep-it-o-tone, (or little ones;)

vessels in order, and to assist at the sacrifices. The Greek priests, like those of the true God, were men of a good constit

red crowned with poppies and ears of corn; that of Minerva, was armed like “the martial maid” herself, in the aegis, the cui

e was then deposited, amidst the rejoicings of the people.” A custom like this, of offering prayers, and laying the first s

d the vestibule; and was open to the worshippers. The altar, somewhat like a table, was an ornamental structure, before whic

those of polytheism? Jewish Priests. The Hebrew religion, like the Pagan, had its holy persons, holy times, holy

e crucifixion of Christ, the veil of the temple was rent. The Temple, like the Tabernacle, contained the apartment called th

plained the operation of physical laws by giving to inanimate objects like passions and sentiments with himself. When the te

us peoples, in their primitive or savage state, have passed through a like low intellectual condition and growth. The folk-l

, the west wind. Cen′taur [Centaur]. A huntsman who had the forepart like a man, and the remainder of the body like a horse

ntsman who had the forepart like a man, and the remainder of the body like a horse. The Centauri lived in Thessaly. Cep′hal

[Dactyli] were priests of Cybele. They were given the name, because, like the fingers, they were ten in number. Dæd′alus [

Pope. Da′gon [Dagon]. A god of the Philistines, half man half fish, like the mermaid. Milton describes him as “Upward man

inhabited the forests and mountains, the upper half of the body being like that of a man, and the lower half like a goat. E

e upper half of the body being like that of a man, and the lower half like a goat. E′gis [Egis] was the shield of Minerva.

used to cut their arms with knives when they sacrificed, and acted so like madmen that demented people got the name of Galla

rt of weaving. Lin′dor [Lindor]. A lover in the shape of a shepherd, like Corydon; a love-sick swain. Lion, see Atalanta,

inst Troy. Memory, see Mnemosyne. Men′des [Mendes]. An Egyptian god like Pan. He was worshiped in the form of a goat. Men

d herald for a king.” “Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels And fly, like thought, from them to me again.” Shakespeare.

ed, namely, a horned, long-eared man, with the lower half of the body like a goat. He is generally seen playing a pipe made

” “The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot like a falling star That in a summer’s evening from th

t a feast Philomela threw Itylus’s head on the banquet table. “Forth like a fury Philomela flew, And at his face the head o

.                            “So to the sylvan lodge They came, that like Pomona’s arbor smiled With flowerets decked and f

request being granted, Pygmalion married the animated statue. “Few, like Pygmalion, doat on lifeless charms, Or care to cl

ian war-god (son of Odin), who had rule over the aerial regions, and, like Jupiter, hurled thunder against his foes. Thor′s

o when thick clouds enwrap the mountain’s head, O’er heaven’s expanse like one black ceiling spread; Sudden the Thunderer, w

giant who was thrown into the innermost hell for insulting Diana. He, like Prometheus, has a vulture constantly feeding on h

were depicted as a sort of mermen — the upper half of the body being like a man, and the lower half like dolphins. Tri′via

men — the upper half of the body being like a man, and the lower half like dolphins. Tri′via [Trivia]. A surname given to D

e are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and

ally adopted.                     “Her first-born Earth produc’d, Of like immensity, the starry Heaven; That he might shelt

beams, The distant sounds of their harmony         Come to our ears, like dreams. “The Moon, too, brings her world so nigh

ing, dropped on the floor. Pandora had repeatedly fancied that sounds like whispers issued from the box. The noise now seeme

tunately Jupiter was inclined to be faithless, and Juno jealous, and, like the element she personified, exceedingly variable

still known as the constellations of the Great and Little Bear. Juno, like her husband, had also her special attendant, Iris

slight, Fluttring among the Olives wantonly, That seem’d to live, so like it was in sight: The velvet nap which on his wing

tures from their winter nooks and dells, Sweet furry things with eyes like starry wells, Crept wonderingly out; they thought

r ‘tis a mischief, not a gift, you ask.” Addison. But Phaeton, who, like many another conceited youth, fancied he knew bet

substance was supposed by the ancients to flow from the poplar trees like tear-drops. Phaeton’s intimate friend, Cycnus, pi

d bow the knee,     And pour his prayers of mingled awe and love, For like a God thou art, and on thy way Of glory sheddest

een of mortal eye!” Hemans. Diana of Versailles. Louvre. Orion, like a fickle youth, was soon consoled for their disap

  “There came one night, the wildest of the year, When the wind smote like edge of hissing spear, And the pale breakers thun

d his every emotion, and who grew as pale and wan as he, — evidently, like him, a victim to love and despair. Even the shade

he besought Venus to give it life, stating that he wished a wife just like it. “O Aphrodite, kind and fair,     That what t

or the two missing, gave Apollo the lyre he had just fashioned. This, like most other myths, admits of a natural explanation

stealing it, they caused eleven other shields to be made, so exactly like the heaven-sent Ancile, that none but the guardia

y eve, A summer’s day: and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos th’ Ægean isle.” Milto

er he went, and supported his halting footsteps. “Two golden statues like in form and look To living maidens, aided with fi

ile his chariot Waits at the doors of heaven. Thou art not For scenes like this: an empire stem hast thou; And it hath furro

d. He had dared offer an insult to Juno and in punishment was chained like Prometheus, while a vulture feasted on his liver.

m a promise fraught with such danger to her; but all in vain. Semele, like many another fair lady, enjoyed having her own wa

knowledged soon the great transforming power, In weight and substance like a mass of ore. He pluck’d the corn, and straight

held a pomegranate in one hand, and a torch in the other. Proserpina, like Adonis, was the personification of vegetation, vi

      “By these her trembling fires, Like Vesta’s, ever burning; and, like hers, Sacred to thoughts immaculate and pure.” Y

iple-headed dog to light.” Euripides ( Potter’s tr.). This command, like all the others, was speedily obeyed; but Eurysthe

y work. First he experienced a burning, stinging sensation, which ran like fire through every vein. Vainly he tried to tear

mortal clay In its first gleam of wild dismay, Is a dread gift to one like thee, Cursed with a hateful destiny.” Mrs. St. J

great rapidity of flight; while Minerva armed him with her own mirror like shield, the dreadful Ægis.     “Minerva thus to

all surrounding objects were clearly reflected on its smooth, mirror like surface. He thus discovered Medusa asleep, raised

ow air, that the grey hairs which streamed from the giant’s head were like the snow which rests upon the peak of a great mou

t, however, enjoy a very long life, and Pirithous soon found himself, like Theseus, a disconsolate widower. To avoid similar

e sea, near the mouth of the Bosphorus, where they remained immovable like any other rocks. The Argonauts, after other adven

in a short time were exterminated.                           “They, like swift dogs, Ranging in fierceness, on each other

multuous battle. On their mother earth By their own spears they sank; like pines, or oaks, Strew’d by a whirlwind in the mou

rally represented as handsome youths, mounted or snowy chargers. “So like they were, no mortal         Might one from other

also given to meteors, sometimes seen at sea, which attach themselves like balls of fire to the masts of ships, —  a sure si

king read the missive, and then fell into a deep reverie. He did not like to take a stranger’s life, and still could not re

winged steed, he finally beheld him sailing downward in wide curves, like a bird of prey. From his place of concealment in

ose most noted works are still extant in various museums. This story, like many others, is merely a sun myth, in which Belle

ven from home early in life, Bellerophon wanders throughout the world like his brilliant prototype, and like it, ends his ca

rophon wanders throughout the world like his brilliant prototype, and like it, ends his career in total darkness. Chapte

tterly of self-intent; Moving but with the mighty ebb and flow. Then, like a new fledg’d bird that first doth show His sprea

ht with all the courage and recklessness of despair. Their blows fell like hail, a cloud of dust enveloped their struggling

or dessert. Then, his frightful asleep, his loud snores reverberating like thunder through the great cave. Ulysses silently

ed interpret all that I can, but I cannot interpret all that I should like .” —  Grimm. In attempting an analysis of the f

tific theories of various eminent mythologists, who, on this subject, like doctors, are sure to disagree. These myths, compr

in this work, we find among the myths of the sky, Uranus, whose name, like that of the old Hindoo god Varuna is derived from

was therefore a personification of the heavens, which are spread out like a veil, and cover all the earth; and we are furth

m of “the morning, with its short-lived beauty” Eurydice, whose name, like that of Europa, comes from a Sanskrit word denoti

ind against his will. We see him early in life united to Megara, and, like Tantalus, slaying his own offspring in a sudden f

-haired Perseus, a personification of the radiant orb of day; and he, like many another solar hero, is cast adrift immediate

the sun, born of Ægeus (the sea, derived from aisso, “to move quickly like the waves”) and Æthra (the pure air). He lingers

and “Latmus”) is the emblem of darkness, who, after marrying Jocasta ( like Iole, a personification of the violet-tinted clou

on the mountain slopes, ere they rise to begin their journey. He too, like Cadmus, Apollo, Hercules, Perseus, Theseus, and J

ning are robbed of their brightest treasures in the west.” Achilles, like several of his brother heroes, “fights in no quar

nds to him in precisely the same relation as Phaeton to Helios,” and, like him, meets with an early death. In the story of U

r, stands apart. It is Minerva, whose Greek name, Athene, is derived, like Daphne, from the Sanskrit Dahana, or ahana (meani

ncients the moon was not a lifeless ball of stones and clods.” Diana, like Apollo, her twin brother, was also a child of the

er, was also a child of the sky (Jupiter) and of night (Latona), and, like him, was born in the “bright land” (Delos). She a

e cloud and mountain (“for the piles of vapour on the horizon were so like Alpine ranges”), the cloud and mountain myths are

Uranus and Gæa, 7 Sthe′no. One of the three Gorgon sisters, immortal like Euryale, 210 Stroph′a-des. Islands where the Har

ical studies, but rather for pupils who have not yet entered, or who, like the greater number of those attending our female

pictures the head of the god is represented as darting rays. Apollo, like other divinities, had many names. Ques. What was

pollo. The insulted deity caused his ears to grow in length and shape like those of an ass. Midas endeavored to cover the de

d the Lesser Bear continually circle around the pole, and never sink, like the other stars, beneath the waves of Ocean. In t

], from Aphros, meaning foam. As soon as she was born, she was placed like a pearl in a shell instead of a cradle, and the g

k-white horses; her countenance is brilliant, and her fingers are red like roses. Ques. What did this represent? Ans. The

s statue, it acknowledged the presence of Aurora, and uttered a sound like the sudden breaking of a harp-string. By some, it

discovered the secret of this famous statue. The face of the Memnon, like that of the Sphinx, has been mutilated by the Ara

of Vulcan. The shepherd, Polyphemus, resembled the Cyclops, and was, like them, a son of Neptune. The monster devoured seve

heir foreheads, to give them light. This, at a distance, would appear like a large, flaming eye, and might give rise to the

ring these solemnities, priests called Galli and Corybantes ran about like madmen, with cries and howlings, making, at the s

ese? Ans. They were hideous monsters who dwelt in forests, and were, like Pan, half man and half goat. Terminus. Que

requented the woods, attended by a train of virgins who had resolved, like her, never to marry. Ques. Who were the attendan

wim on either side, are human only to the waist, the body terminating like that of a fish. Whenever Neptune’s chariot moved

his father’s companion and trumpeter. The upper half of his body was like that of a man, but below the waist he resembled a

y were twin brothers, the sons of Jupiter and Leda. Castor was mortal like his mother, and when he died, Pollux grieved so m

eir subjects. In this manner they softened those who before were hard like stones, so that gentleness and humanity began to

e monster, whose eyes shone with fire, while its bristles stood erect like spears, and its tusks resembled those of an India

Ques. Who was Ulysses? Ans. He was king of Ithaca, and had been, like many other princes of Greece, a suitor of the bea

am. The temple soon became celebrated as an oracle, and was enriched, like that of Delphi, by splendid offerings. When Camby

. He was regarded as identical with the sun, while Isis was supposed, like Cybele, to personify the earth. Ques. How was th

teach of God? Ans. They teach one supreme deity, called Brahma, and like the Persians seem to have some idea of the Trinit

he world was erected by a threefold divinity. His followers, however, like the rest of the Chinese, have no definite idea of

he recitations of their bards. The Scandinavian Skalds or bards were, like the Celtic, historians as well as minstrels. Que

The hair of this goddess flowed around her in sunny waves that shone like gold. She was proud of this adornment; and Loki,

would attach itself to the head of the wearer, and increase in length like ordinary hair. Sifa was enchanted with the golden

His strength was almost equal to that of Thor; he was often employed like Mercury as messenger of the gods. He had sandals

est, shed tears for the hero. The trees and plants shed crystal drops like rain, and even the rocks and stones were covered

ered in sacrifice, and the rest of the day was spent in rejoicing. In like manner, the samolus, or marsh-wort, possessed no

can coast, and trembled with superstitious awe as he saw them gliding like phantoms among the misty crags, waving flaming to

ally a dolmen in the centre. The dolmen is a large flat stone, placed like a table, upon two others which are set upright. S

lood of human victims. Ques. Who was Quetzalcoatl? Ans. The Aztecs, like many nations of the old world, had their Golden A

er death, to a state of indolent contentment; but the Aztec paradise, like the Elysium of the Greeks and Romans, was reserve

ss exalted alliance, was condemned to the cruel punishment decreed in like circumstances against the Roman Vestal. She was b

em, as we have seen, with the fables of their mythology. These ruins, like some in the the Old World, are often called cyclo

ecution, of patriotism with usurpation; — these, and countless images like these — affecting, melancholy, serious, gay, inge

d become acquainted with, antique statues, medals, paintings, and the like ; to read the classic authors advantageously; and

sacrifices were often accompanied by prayers, music, dancing, and the like . Human victims were occasionally sacrificed. The

e, &c.; and even the miseries of life, as poverty, grief, and the like . The twenty gods of the first order were divided

hand. Obs. 2. In a moral sence, Saturn is the emblem of time. Time, like an index in the heavens, points out and apportion

ig. 4. Cybele. “High as the mother of the gods in place, And proud, like her, of an immortal race, Then, when in pomp she

the shoulders of Pan, or in the arms of Silenus; and again he appears like Apollo, with fine hair, loosely flowing down his

attitude charming and beautiful. She appears conscious of her worth, like Milton’s Eve, yet bashful and “half withdrawing.”

Then, on her beryl throne, by Tritons borne, Bright rose the goddess like the star of morn, With rosy fingers as uncurled t

n her head the flowers of summer swelled, And blushed all lovely, and like Eden smelled, A garland of the rose; and a white

eve A summer’s day; and with the setting sun. Drops from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” —  P

t that a globe so large, his front so fill’d, Like the Sun’s disk, or like the Grecian shield.” Obs. 1. — There were three

it vomits forth, caused it to be regarded as the forge of Vulcan. In like manner the horrible noise of that volcano was com

sband, notwithstanding her vow of celibacy. By her he had Triton. But like Jupiter, he was unfaithful to his wife; and his p

ows of teeth, with twelve feet, and with the lower parts of the body, like dogs, which never ceased barking: for which metam

she might dwell on its surface. She was the first of his children. In like manner he sent forth the three Parcæ, the serpent

who were usually found in the train of Bacchus, had their upper part like a man and their lower parts like a shaggy goat. P

ain of Bacchus, had their upper part like a man and their lower parts like a shaggy goat. Pan was called Deus Arcadiæ, becau

“He sighs, his sighs the tossing reeds return In soft small notes, like one that seem’d to mourn. The new, but pleasant n

en with spears. The usual offerings were lambs, sheep, goats, and the like . The Lares, sons of Mercury by Lara, were also in

is hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncomb’d, unclean; His eyes like hollow furnaces on fire; A girdle foul with greas

the innocent amusements of the heroes; — these and inumerable images like these, — tender, touching, sublime — are the subj

cily. This island was also denominated Trinacria because it is shaped like a triangle, the corners of which are constituted

l. — See Fig. 60. Fig. 60. Fortune. Opportunity was represented in like manner; but she had a tuft of hair on her head in

the other, Castor and Clytemnestra, who are said to have been mortal like their mother. Castor and Pollux were often called

their attention to the bracelets, the glasses, the necklaces, and the like ; but Achilles handled the targets, fitted the hel

loria, Pasithæ, Coronis, Plexaris, Pytho, and Tyche, and who were, in like manner, called Hyades, or Suculæ. The Pleiades we

the Cretan Diana, the Sicilian Proserpine, the Roman Bellona, and the like . Thus one nature was comprehended in Osiris and I

forehead, the effigy of an eagle on the back, a knot under the figure like a beetle, the hairs of his tail double, and his r

d pulse were his offerings. The tree called Persea, whose leaves were like a tongue, and whose fruit like a heart, was sacre

tree called Persea, whose leaves were like a tongue, and whose fruit like a heart, was sacred to him. Anubis, the companio

t with a power of motion. This motion generated a golden egg, blazing like a thousand suns, from which sprang Brahma, the pa

ultural labours. She is represented with a twisted cord under her arm like Ceres’ cornucopia. Indra, the king of heaven, re

under-bolt. He was the master of the thunder, winds, showers, and the like . His residence is Meru or the North Pole, allegor

d with his extended arms, adorned with rich bracelets. His eyes gleam like torches. He holds the holy shell, the radiated we

ted settling over his head. As to his character and attributes, he is like Apollo. The name of Avatars is sometimes given to

ca, and Chronos. Oannes was a monster, represented with an upper head like a man’s, and a lower one like a fish’s, with the

monster, represented with an upper head like a man’s, and a lower one like a fish’s, with the feet of a man and the tail of

r their devotions to him. He was waited upon by inferior water-nymphs like the Grecian Naiades. His partner was a goddess of

of Revelation, before which its moral enemies, Doubt, Pride, and the like , flee a way opened up to the blissful regions. Qu

ck, the arms taken from enemies, trophies, bucklers, tripods, and the like . On festival days, these temples were also adorne

chitect designed to give it the form of the terrestrial globe; and in like manner, and for the same reason, many antique tem

e, masters of exercise were not allowed to appear there except naked, like the combatants. The judges of the games were call

d of thunder — a symbol of physical strength. His mighty step sounded like the storm. His hammer, Miolner, (the Crusher,) cr

f birds, the involuntary emotions of men, dreams and visions, and the like , to be looked upon as instructions or inspiration

with life is warm’d. Who is he by heav’n’s high portal,     Beaming like the light of morn? ’Tis Heimdallar’s form immorta

Thor or of the sun, to obtain a fertile year. During its continuance, like the Roman Saturnalia, marks of the most dissolute

ejudices, and dark conceptions which make men imagine sanguinary gods like themselves. Hence, those bloody rites which plung

ations, and will. Oracles, augurs, divinations, and a thousand of the like practices followed. The three Parcæ whom we have

t media; since, if this had been the case, all things must have been, like himself, ineffable and unknown. It is necessary,

hearing such names as a Saturnian power, the power Jupiter; and such like , but we ought to explore the things to which they

to overtake her, and as killing her with his bright rays which shone like spears. “We talk of the clouds which scud along t

ns, his career as a ruling Greek divinity entirely ceases. But being, like all the gods, immortal, he was supposed to be sti

fe of Chronos and mother of Zeus and the other great gods of Olympus, like Gæa, personified the earth, and was regarded as t

, the bull carries Europa over seas and mountains, journeying always, like the sun, from east to west. The Dawn has been tak

d Demeter*, which had the power of speech, the feet on the right side like those of a man, and the rest of the body like a h

feet on the right side like those of a man, and the rest of the body like a horse. The favorite animal of Poseidon was the

represented, more especially in Athens, as earnest maidens, dressed, like Artemis*, in short tunics suitable for the chase,

one hand, she appears as the wife of the dark god of the lower world, like him, a gloomy, awe-inspiring deity, who pitilessl

attles as a wild, ungovernable warrior, who passes through the armies like a whirlwind, hurling to the ground the brave and

o prevent its abstraction, Numa caused eleven more to be made exactly like it, and instituted for their protection the Salii

ve, A summer’s day, and with the setting sun Dropped from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Ægean isle.” Mil

ned the contrite sinner, and who acted as the protector of those who, like Orestes, had committed a crime which required lon

pollo. The insulted deity caused his ears to grow in length and shape like those of an ass. Midas endeavored to conceal the

ver hunting. Artemis is the feminine counterpart of her brother, and, like him, though she deals out destruction and sudden

adian nymph. He had horns sprouting from his forehead, beard and feet like a goat. At sight of him his mother tied in dismay

le of the sun with the clouds, which gather around him at his setting like mortal enemies. As he sinks, the fiery mists embr

he fiery mists embrace him, and the purple vapors rush across the sky like the streams of blood which gush from the hero’s b

n a golden-fleeced ram which had been given her by Hermes, and which, like the celestial steeds, could run through the air,

The shapeless vapors which arise from the waters, and through which, like a huge eye, the sun sheds a sickly light, assume

omy than do the myths in Greek mythology; but there is no doubt that, like the Greek myths, those of the Egyptians had their

, are common all over Egypt. Neph*, often confounded with Amun, and, like him, wearing the ram’s head, was the Divine Breat

ilence, fever, and all the ills of life were personified, and man was like a bewildered traveler struggling through a strang

was a name for the fire which, when the fuel is kindled, steps forth like a war-horse from his prison, leaving a dark path

, and Iceland. The mythical systems of the tribes of Northern Europe, like those of the Greeks, had their germ in phrases wh

untains), roaring geysers, sulphur pools, and horrid volcanic chasms, like the waste, chaotic battle-field of Frost and Fire

ichabo was said to dwell in the skies with his brother, the Snow, or, like many great spirits, to have built his wigwam in t

own as the Farnese Bull. 3. Read Tennyson’s “Œnone.” 4. The Romans, like the Greeks, attached great importance to the inte

when the first rays of the rising sun fall upon this statue, a sound, like the breaking of a harpstring, is heard to issue f

m the Greek word signifying fingers, because they were ten in number, like the fingers. The feasts of this goddess were cele

ay. The breathless Phaeton, with flaming hair, Shot from the chariot, like a falling star; Till on the Po his blasted corpse

lyre, became so melodious, that whenever it was stricken, it sounded like that instrument. Having unfortunately killed a ve

ure it from being lost, caused several shields to be made, so exactly like it, that it was almost impossible to distinguish

sometimes turned armies to flight. The Athenians had a statue of him, like that of Mars. And in some antique gems and sculpt

diately after death. Another, who wore a mask resembling three heads, like those ascribed to Cerberus, ferried it over the N

s Virgil. Who was Theseus? Son of Egeon, king of Athens; a hero who, like Hercules, went about destroying oppressors and co

a power of motion. By that motion, was produced a golden egg, blazing like a thousand suns, in which was born Brahma, the pa

skies. On that ethereal lake whose waters lie, Blue and transpicuous, like another sky, The elements had rear’d their king’s

plendent gems. His neck, tongues, and body, are black. His eyes gleam like torches. The skirts of his robes are yellow. A sp

ions of antiquity. But though it is most probable that the Egyptians, like almost all other people, at first held the belief

f the moon. She was esteemed as the cause of abundance, and regarded, like Osīris, to be one of the sources of the inundatio

the universe, which was conceived to be invisible in its nature; but, like other objects of Egyptian superstition, to be sub

ancient Germans, Gauls, and Britons, and other Celtic nations. This, like almost all the other systems of Paganism, in its

before the Gods: who were supposed to be born, to reign, and to die, like earthly monarchs. Odin, or Wodin, the greatest of

with life is warm’d. Who is he by heav’n’s high portal,     Beaming like the light of morn? ’Tis Heimdallar’s form immorta

sea. They did not practise the sanguinary rites of the Mexicans, but, like them, they consecrated virgins to the service of