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... give a better idea of the epic than could be formed from passages scat- tered through the text . The epic originated among tribes of barbarians , who deified departed heroes and recited legends in praise of their deeds . As the hymn ...
... give a better idea of the epic than could be formed from passages scat- tered through the text . The epic originated among tribes of barbarians , who deified departed heroes and recited legends in praise of their deeds . As the hymn ...
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... give him a son . - - The gods , well pleased , bore his request to Brahma in person , and incidentally preferred a request that he provide some means of destroying the monster Ravana that was working such woe among their priests , and ...
... give him a son . - - The gods , well pleased , bore his request to Brahma in person , and incidentally preferred a request that he provide some means of destroying the monster Ravana that was working such woe among their priests , and ...
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... gives his permission to Ganga to descend . King Bhagiratha takes his stand on the top of Gokarna , the sacred peak of Himavan ( the Himalaya ) , and here Stands with arms outstretch'd on high , amid five blazing fires , the one Towards ...
... gives his permission to Ganga to descend . King Bhagiratha takes his stand on the top of Gokarna , the sacred peak of Himavan ( the Himalaya ) , and here Stands with arms outstretch'd on high , amid five blazing fires , the one Towards ...
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... give this gift , " Yama replied . " Thy wish , Blameless , shall be fulfilled . But now go back ; Already art thou wearied , and our road Is hard and long . Turn back , lest thou , too , die . " The Princess answered : " Weary am I not ...
... give this gift , " Yama replied . " Thy wish , Blameless , shall be fulfilled . But now go back ; Already art thou wearied , and our road Is hard and long . Turn back , lest thou , too , die . " The Princess answered : " Weary am I not ...
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... gives . " " As water to the thirsty , " Yama said , " Princess , thy words melodious are to me . Except the life of Satyavan , thy lord , Ask one boon yet again , for I will grant . " Answer made Sâvitrî : " The King , my sire , Hath no ...
... gives . " " As water to the thirsty , " Yama said , " Princess , thy words melodious are to me . Except the life of Satyavan , thy lord , Ask one boon yet again , for I will grant . " Answer made Sâvitrî : " The King , my sire , Hath no ...
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Achilles Æneas Æneid Arjuna armor arms battle Beatrice beautiful Beowulf Bhima blood Bradamant brother Brunhild Charlemagne Christian cried Dante daughter death deeds divine DIVINE COMEDY Draupadi earth epic eyes father fear fell fire flames fled forest Gama glory gold Greeks Grendel grief Günther Hagan hand harp hast hastened hath heard heart Heaven Hector Hell hero Hrothgar Iliad Ilmarinen Jerusalem Delivered Kalevala Kauravas king Kriemhild land lord Louhi Lusiad maid maiden mighty Moors mother night noble o'er Olivier Orlando palace Pallas Pandavas Paradise Paradise Lost Patroclus poem poet Pohyola prince queen rage Raja Rama Rinaldo Rogero Roland Rollánd rose Rüdeger Rustem Satan sent Siegfried slain slay slew song Song of Roland soul spake spirit steed stood story suitors sword tears Telemachus thee thou throne took Translation Trojans Troy Turnus Ulysses Vergil Wainamoinen warriors wife youth Yudhi-sthira Zerbino
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Page 381 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 383 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity...
Page 381 - Hail, horrors ! hail, Infernal World ! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 383 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more Cease I to wander, where the Muses haunt « Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 382 - Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear — to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great Ammiral, were but a wand — He walked with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie, not like those steps On Heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire.
Page 381 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven...
Page 398 - Meroe Nilotic isle, and more to west, The realm of Bocchus to the Blackmoor sea ; From the Asian kings and Parthian among these, From India, and the golden Chersonese, And utmost Indian isle, Taprobane, Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreathed ; From Gallia, Gades, and the British west ; Germans, and Scythians, and Sarmatians, north Beyond Danubius to the Tauric pool.
Page 397 - From cold septentrion blasts ; thence in the midst Divided by a river, of whose banks On each side an imperial city stood, With towers and temples proudly elevate On seven small hills, with palaces adorned,, Porches and theatres, baths, aqueducts, Statues and trophies, and triumphal arcs, Gardens and groves, presented to his eyes...
Page 384 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 382 - He scarce had ceased when the superior Fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 290 Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.