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... warrior monarch slew me not , My death was thus ordained to be , predestined was the shaft he shot . ' Thus as he spoke , the anchorite's son soared up the glowing heaven afar , In air his heavenly body shone , while stood he in his ...
... warrior monarch slew me not , My death was thus ordained to be , predestined was the shaft he shot . ' Thus as he spoke , the anchorite's son soared up the glowing heaven afar , In air his heavenly body shone , while stood he in his ...
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... warrior class . In the struggle which ensued , however , Arjuna , assisted by his brothers , especially Bhima , succeeded in carrying off the princess , whose father did not demur . When the princes returned to their hut they went into ...
... warrior class . In the struggle which ensued , however , Arjuna , assisted by his brothers , especially Bhima , succeeded in carrying off the princess , whose father did not demur . When the princes returned to their hut they went into ...
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... warriors were supplied with weapons of the most dangerous sort . The army of the Kauravas was surrounded by a deep trench fortified by towers , and further protected by fireballs and jars full of scorpions to be thrown at the assailants ...
... warriors were supplied with weapons of the most dangerous sort . The army of the Kauravas was surrounded by a deep trench fortified by towers , and further protected by fireballs and jars full of scorpions to be thrown at the assailants ...
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... warrior was horror - stricken at the terrible divinity with countless arms , hands , and heads , touch- ing the skies . Having been thus instructed by Krishna , Arjuna went forth , and the eighteen days ' battle began . The slaughter ...
... warrior was horror - stricken at the terrible divinity with countless arms , hands , and heads , touch- ing the skies . Having been thus instructed by Krishna , Arjuna went forth , and the eighteen days ' battle began . The slaughter ...
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... warriors lost in the great battle appeared in their chariots , at perfect peace with one another , and cleansed of all earthly stain . Then the living were happy with the dead ; long separated families were once more united , and the ...
... warriors lost in the great battle appeared in their chariots , at perfect peace with one another , and cleansed of all earthly stain . Then the living were happy with the dead ; long separated families were once more united , and the ...
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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.