The Heroes, Or, Greek Fairy Tales for My ChildrenMacmillan, 1856 - 205 páginas |
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Acrisius Ægeus Æson Aietes Alcinous Anauros Argo Athamas Athens awhile bade beneath brave called cave Cepheus Chalciope Cheiron cliffs Colchi cried cunning Danae dare dark daughter Dictys earth eyes face fair father feast feet fell fled glens Gods golden fleece Gorgon Gorgon's head Greeks grew guests hand harp heard heart Hellas Hera Heracles heroes hither honour Immortals Iolcos isles Jason Kerkuon killed king land laughed leapt lifted live looked magic maidens Medeia mighty Minos Minuai monsters mother mountain never night noble nymphs Olympus Orpheus Pelias Pelion Periphetes Perseus Phineus Phrixus pleasant Polydectes Procrustes rocks rose round rushed sailed sandals sang Sciron Seriphos ship shore shouted sighed Sinis sleep song spoke stone stood strange strangers sword tell Theseus things thou Tiphys took Træzene trembling weary weeping wept wild wind wine wondered youth Zeus
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Página 115 - ... guided by the gleam of the golden fleece, until they saw it hanging on one vast tree in the midst. And Jason would have sprung to seize it; but Medeia held him back, and pointed, shuddering, to the tree-foot, where the mighty serpent lay, coiled in and out among the roots, with a body like a mountain pine. His coils stretched many a fathom, spangled with bronze and gold; and half of him they could see, but no more, for the rest lay in the darkness far beyond. And when he saw them coming he lifted...
Página 87 - ... 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 land, to stand by Jason faithfully, in the adventure of the golden fleece; and whosoever shrank back, or disobeyed, or turned traitor to his vow, then justice should witness against him, and the Erinnes who track guilty men.
Página 84 - And he led him to the holy oak, where the black dove settled in old times, and was changed into the priestess of Zeus, and gave oracles to all nations round. And he bade him cut down a bough, and sacrifice to Hera and to Zeus; and they took the bough and came to lolcos, and nailed it to the beakhead of the ship.
Página 145 - Crete. Thrice a day he walks round the island, and never stops to sleep; and if strangers land he leaps into his furnace, which flames there among the hills; and when he is red-hot he rushes on them, and burns them in his brazen hands." Then all the heroes cried, "What shall we do, wise Medeia? We must have water, or we die of thirst. Flesh and blood we can face fairly; but who can face this red-hot brass?" "I can face red-hot brass, if the tale I hear be true. For they say that he has but one vein...
Página 21 - So Perseus started on his journey, going dryshod over land and sea ; and his heart was high and joyful, for the winged sandals bore him each day a seven days
Página 185 - Troezene to you?" she asked. But he said hastily, "Do you not know who this Theseus is? The hero who has cleared the country from all monsters; but that he came from Troezene, I never heard before. I must go out and welcome him.
Página 111 - But Jason snatched off his helmet, and hurled it into the thickest of the throng. And blind madness came upon them, suspicion, hate, and fear ; and one cried to his fellow, " Thou didst strike me ! " and another, " Thou art Jason ; thou shalt die ! " So fury seized those earth-born phantoms, and each turned his hand against the rest ; and they fought and were never weary, till they all lay dead upon the ground. Then the magic furrows opened, and the kind earth took them home into her breast ; and...
Página 85 - And the good ship Argo heard him, and longed to be away and out at sea ; till she stirred in every timber, and heaved from stem to stern, and leapt up from the sand upon the rollers, and plunged onward like a gallant horse ; and the heroes fed her path with pine trunks, till she rushed into the whispering sea.
Página 69 - Cheiron the just. And it happened on a day that Jason stood on the mountain, and looked north and south and east and west ; and Cheiron stood by him and watched him, for he knew that the time was come. And Jason looked and saw the plains of Thessaly, where the Lapithai breed their horses ; and the lake of Boibe, and the stream which runs northward to Peneus and Tempe ; and he looked north, and saw the mountain wall which guards the Magnesian shore ; Olympus, the seat of the Immortals, and Ossa, and...
Página 161 - ... Gods have girdled it with mountains, whose veins are of pure silver, and their bones of marble white as snow; and there the hills are sweet with thyme and basil, and the meadows with violet and asphodel, and the nightingales sing all day in the thickets, by the side of ever-flowing streams.