The Young Folks' Library: A book of famous myths and legendsHall & Locke, 1901 |
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Pagina xvi
... mind , with a weak train- ing , could invent tales that do not differ from the best Greek stories , except in their ruder language and coarser form . It is as if we looked at the raw wool being fed to the loom and then saw the finished ...
... mind , with a weak train- ing , could invent tales that do not differ from the best Greek stories , except in their ruder language and coarser form . It is as if we looked at the raw wool being fed to the loom and then saw the finished ...
Pagina xvii
... mind , and that this is seen in certain bad and cruel traits that yet cling even to the finest of them . How closely akin are the chief Myths of the world may be seen from the stories that were made up very early about fire , its uses ...
... mind , and that this is seen in certain bad and cruel traits that yet cling even to the finest of them . How closely akin are the chief Myths of the world may be seen from the stories that were made up very early about fire , its uses ...
Pagina xviii
... mind . Myths and Legends grow up sometimes on the same spot , and about the same names . Thus the Romance of King Arthur may be a great Myth told about the Sun , and as true as the story of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds . Its many ...
... mind . Myths and Legends grow up sometimes on the same spot , and about the same names . Thus the Romance of King Arthur may be a great Myth told about the Sun , and as true as the story of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds . Its many ...
Pagina xix
... mind and body . The study of the old beliefs , old customs , old memo- ries that have thus floated down among the simple , remote and unlearned peoples of the world reveals much history that would else be unknown- the his- tory of the mind ...
... mind and body . The study of the old beliefs , old customs , old memo- ries that have thus floated down among the simple , remote and unlearned peoples of the world reveals much history that would else be unknown- the his- tory of the mind ...
Pagina xxi
... mind . But always they acted as a helpful schooling for whole peoples and races , and epochs of time , when such ways of forming the mind were the only ones known , or at least , were the most popular . Thomas & . She hav 7 . A BOOK OF ...
... mind . But always they acted as a helpful schooling for whole peoples and races , and epochs of time , when such ways of forming the mind were the only ones known , or at least , were the most popular . Thomas & . She hav 7 . A BOOK OF ...
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Aietes Alcinous Anauros answered asked bade Baucis beautiful Beowulf called cave Chalciope Cheiron Circe clouds Colchi comrades cried Cyclops dark daughter earth Epimetheus Eurylochus eyes face fair father feast fell fight Gareth Geraint giant Glooskap gods gold golden apples Golden Fleece Golden Touch grew guests hall hand head hear heard heart Heracles Hercules heroes Hesperides Horn Iolcos island Jason King Arthur King Midas knew land leapt looked magic maidens Marygold Medeia Menelaus mighty milk Minuai mother mountain never night oars Orpheus palace Pandora Pelias Pelion Philemon Phrixus pitcher pray Queen Riminild rock rose round sailed seemed ship shore slay sleep smile song spake stood story strange stranger suitors sword Telemachus tell thee things thou thought Tiphys told took trees Troy Ulysses voice wept wife wind wine wonderful Zeus
Populaire passages
Pagina 370 - ... government. Happily that was at an end; he had got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony, and could go in and out whenever he pleased without dreading the tyranny of Dame Van Winkle. Whenever her name was mentioned, however, he shook his head, shrugged his shoulders, and cast up his eyes; which might pass either for an expression of resignation to his fate, or joy at his deliverance. He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Mr. Doolittle's hotel.
Pagina 368 - Ah, poor man, Rip Van Winkle was his name, but it's twenty years since he went away from home with his gun, and never has been heard of since— his dog came home without him; but whether he shot himself, or was carried away by the Indians, nobody can tell. I was then but a little girl.
Pagina 269 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her...
Pagina 370 - ... husband, whom Rip recollected for one of the urchins that used to climb upon his back. As to Rip's son and heir, who was the ditto of himself, seen leaning against the tree, he was employed to work on the farm; but evinced an hereditary disposition to attend to anything else but his business.
Pagina 350 - WHOEVER has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height and lording it over the surrounding country.
Pagina 358 - Passing through the ravine, they came to a hollow, like a small amphitheatre, surrounded by perpendicular precipices, over the brinks of which impending trees shot their branches, so that you only caught glimpses of the azure sky, and the bright evening cloud.
Pagina 354 - The moment Wolf entered the house his crest fell, his tail drooped to the ground, or curled between his legs, he sneaked about with a gallows air, casting many a sidelong glance at Dame Van Winkle, and at the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle he would fly to the door with yelping precipitation.
Pagina 353 - Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, whichever can be got with least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to...
Pagina 369 - Half-moon; being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river and the great city called by his name. That his father had once seen them in their old Dutch dresses playing at ninepins in a hollow of the mountain; and that he himself had heard, one summer afternoon, the sound of their balls, like distant peals of thunder.
Pagina 360 - One taste provoked another; and he reiterated his visits to the flagon so often that at length his senses were over-powered, his eyes swam in his head, his head gradually declined, and he fell into a deep sleep.