Greek Folk Poesy: Folk prose. The survival of paganism |
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afterwards art thou asked Athens Beardless beautiful began Big Matsíko Bré bring brother brought called Cap of Invisibility chamber chickpeas child Cinderella cried daughter Dervish Dhrako didst thou door dost thou Dulcetta Eagle eaten Fate father fell fiddle Fiorentino forty gave girl give thee goes golden Gorgons Greek Half-man hand heard horse husband kerchief kill King King's kissed Klepht Lamia let us go lived looked maiden marry master Móda Moirai morning mother mountain Naxos Negress Negro Nereid night old woman once palace Partridge passed piastres poor Prince Princess Queen rejoicings replied returned road sent sequins servant ship sisters sleep Soothsayer story tell thou art thou hast thou wilt threw told took Turkish Vizier wedding wept wife word Yiánko youngest youth Δελτίον
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Page 504 - And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. 48 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched : "Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Page 472 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 149 - I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honouring thee...
Page 504 - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them that do iniquity ; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Page 465 - He feels from Juda's land The dreaded Infant's hand, The rays of Bethlehem blind his dusky eyn; Nor all the gods beside, Longer dare abide, Not Typhon huge ending in snaky twine ; Our Babe, to show his Godhead true, Can in his swaddling bands control the damned crew.
Page 516 - I have long held an opinion, almost amounting to conviction, in common I believe with many other lovers of natural knowledge, that the various forms under which the forces of matter are made manifest have one common origin; or, in other words, are so directly related and mutually dependent, that they are convertible, as it were, one into another, and possess equivalents of power in their action.
Page 483 - It appears to have been within systematic schools of civilized philosophy that the transcendental definitions of the immaterial soul were obtained, by abstraction from the primitive conception of the ethereal-material soul, so as to reduce it from a physical to a metaphysical entity.