The Young Folks' Library: A book of famous myths and legendsHall & Locke, 1901 |
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Pagina xiii
... WINE TO POLYPHEMUS NAUSICAA THROWING THE BALL . ULYSSES LAID ON HIS OWN COAST BY THE SAILORS . MEETING OF ULYSSES AND PENELOPE Face Page 180 224 PHARCIAN Face Page 234 KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE : GARETH LAID ABOUT ...
... WINE TO POLYPHEMUS NAUSICAA THROWING THE BALL . ULYSSES LAID ON HIS OWN COAST BY THE SAILORS . MEETING OF ULYSSES AND PENELOPE Face Page 180 224 PHARCIAN Face Page 234 KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE : GARETH LAID ABOUT ...
Pagina 58
... spray over the brim . " I have seen many giants , in my time , " thought Hercules , " but never one that would need to drink his wine out of a cup like this ! " And , true enough , what a cup it must 58 Famous Myths and Legends.
... spray over the brim . " I have seen many giants , in my time , " thought Hercules , " but never one that would need to drink his wine out of a cup like this ! " And , true enough , what a cup it must 58 Famous Myths and Legends.
Pagina 101
... wine is not fit for growing lads . And when the remnants were put away , they all lay down upon the skins and leaves about the fire , and each took the lyre in turn , and sang and played with all his heart . And after a while they all ...
... wine is not fit for growing lads . And when the remnants were put away , they all lay down upon the skins and leaves about the fire , and each took the lyre in turn , and sang and played with all his heart . And after a while they all ...
Pagina 118
... wine , and the bitter salt sea - water , and bade the heroes taste . So each tasted the goblet , and passed it round , and vowed an awful vow : and they vowed before the sun , and the night , and the blue - haired sea who shakes the ...
... wine , and the bitter salt sea - water , and bade the heroes taste . So each tasted the goblet , and passed it round , and vowed an awful vow : and they vowed before the sun , and the night , and the blue - haired sea who shakes the ...
Pagina 120
... wine ; and young Achilles served them , and carried the golden goblet round . And after supper all the heroes clapped their hands , and called on Orpheus to sing ; but he refused , and said , " How can I , who am the younger , sing ...
... wine ; and young Achilles served them , and carried the golden goblet round . And after supper all the heroes clapped their hands , and called on Orpheus to sing ; but he refused , and said , " How can I , who am the younger , sing ...
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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.