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8. (1842) Heathen mythology

Thus full of council to the fen she went, Full all the way, and longing for a vent. […] Insérer image anonyme_heathen-mythology_1842_img060b The Bacchantes went into the mountains with torches in their hands, covered with the skins of tigers and panthers. […] She then went through the world in search of her lost love, persecuted, and subjected to numerous trials by Venus; who, determined on destroying, sent her to Proserpine with a box to request some of her beauty. […] Down went the board, and fastening on her hair, He seized with sudden force the frighted fair. […] This, however, was useless, as he went with the rest of the Greeks.

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