Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods, and Illustrious Heroes: Revised for a Classical Course of Education, and Adapted for the Use of Students of Every Age and of Either Sex |
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... body is cylindrical , and its roof or dome spherical ; its inner diameter was one hundred and forty - four feet , and the height from the pavement to the grand aperture , on its top , was also one hundred and forty - four feet . Its ...
... body is cylindrical , and its roof or dome spherical ; its inner diameter was one hundred and forty - four feet , and the height from the pavement to the grand aperture , on its top , was also one hundred and forty - four feet . Its ...
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... body , if he were en- dued with greatness of mind , or noted for clearness of wit , he first gained to himself the admiration of the ignorant vulgar ; this admiration was by degrees turned into a profound respect , till at length they ...
... body , if he were en- dued with greatness of mind , or noted for clearness of wit , he first gained to himself the admiration of the ignorant vulgar ; this admiration was by degrees turned into a profound respect , till at length they ...
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... bodies , but likewise through all the parts of the universe , as Virgil poetically de- scribes it : -The heaven and earth's compacted frame , And flowing waters , and the starry frame , And both the radiant lights , one common soul ...
... bodies , but likewise through all the parts of the universe , as Virgil poetically de- scribes it : -The heaven and earth's compacted frame , And flowing waters , and the starry frame , And both the radiant lights , one common soul ...
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... body , and thereby . turned it into a tree that drops frankincense . " Nectare adorato spargit corpusque locumque , Multaque præquestus , tanges tamen æthera , dixit . Protinus imbutum cœlesti nectare corpus Delicuit , terramque suo ...
... body , and thereby . turned it into a tree that drops frankincense . " Nectare adorato spargit corpusque locumque , Multaque præquestus , tanges tamen æthera , dixit . Protinus imbutum cœlesti nectare corpus Delicuit , terramque suo ...
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... bodies of the kings of Egypt lie interred . 7. The palace of Cyrus , king of the Medes , made by Menon , with no less prodigality than art for he cemented the stones with gold . QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION . What is the first of the seven ...
... bodies of the kings of Egypt lie interred . 7. The palace of Cyrus , king of the Medes , made by Menon , with no less prodigality than art for he cemented the stones with gold . QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION . What is the first of the seven ...
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Achilles Æneid afterward altar ancient Apollo Bacchus beautiful blood body Bona Dea born breast brought called Carmenta carried cause celebrated celestial Ceres CHAPTER chariot Chimæra Corybantes crown Cybele dæmons daughter death dedicated deities derived described Diana divine dogs earth Egyptians esteemed eyes fable father feet fell fire gave Genii goddess gods golden Greek hand harp head heaven hell hence Hercules Hesiod honour horns horses invented island Janus Juno Jupiter Jupiter's killed king Latins married Mars Meleager Mercury Minerva mother mountain Muses Neptune nymphs oracle Ovid painted Pallas PANTHEON Phrygia Plutarch Pluto poets preside priests Proserpine punishment quæ QUESTIONS FOR EXAMINATION quod Repeat the lines represented river Romans Rome sacred sacrificed sacrifices Saturn sceptre sent serpent signifies sister stone temple Tereus Theseus things thunder Troy Ulysses Venus Vesta Virg Virgil Vulcan whence wife wine women word worshipped
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Page 289 - Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes, Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum ; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; 175 Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit...
Page 28 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Page 220 - The verdant fields with those of heav'n may vie, With ether vested, and a purple sky — The blissful seats of happy souls below : Stars of their own, and their own suns, they know. Their airy limbs in sports they exercise, And. on the green, contend the wrestler's prize. Some, in heroic verse, divinely sing : Others in artful measures lead the ring.
Page 77 - Of sounding brass ; the polish'd axle, steel. Eight brazen spokes in radiant order flame; The circles gold, of uncorrupted frame, Such as the heavens produce : and round the gold Two brazen rings of work divine were roll'd.
Page 265 - Is beaten by the winds — with foggy vapours bound. Snows hide his shoulders: from beneath his chin, The founts of rolling streams their race begin: A beard of ice on his large breast depends.
Page 195 - O'er whose unhappy waters, void of light, No bird presumes to steer his airy flight; Such deadly stenches from the depth arise, And steaming sulphur, that infects the skies.
Page 50 - That high, through fields of air, his flight sustain, O'er the wide earth, and o'er the boundless main...
Page 33 - Patareaque regia servit ; luppiter est genitor; per me, quod eritque fuitque estque, patet ; per me concordant carmina nervis. certa quidem nostra est, nostra tamen una sagitta certior, in vacuo quae vulnera pectore fecit ! 520 inventum medicina meum est, opiferque per orbem dicor, et herbarum subiecta potentia nobis. ei mihi, quod nullis amor est sanabilis herbis nee prosunt domino, quae prosunt omnibus, artes...
Page 38 - I hung thy sacred fane, Or fed the flames with fat of oxen slain ; God of the silver bow ! thy shafts employ, Avenge thy servant, and the Greeks destroy.' Thus Chryses pray'd: — the favouring power attends, And from Olympus