The Book of Wonder VoyagesJoseph Jacobs D. Nutt, 1896 - 224 páginas |
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Æson Aietes al-Huda al-Kaddus Alcinous Anauros Argo Argonauts asked Athamas bade Barham beasts beauty birds boat Chalciope charming Chiron clouds Colchi cried damsel dark daughter delightful Designed Cloth Cover door earth Eric the Thrond eyes fair Fairy Fairy Tales father fear feast fell fire gave Geirrod gold golden fleece hand Hasan hast hath head heard heart Hera Hercules heroes Ifrit Illustrations Iolcos Islands of Wak Jason Jinn JOSEPH JACOBS journey king knew lady land leapt Lilybæum looked Maelduin magic maidens marvelled Medea mighty Minuai mother mountain never night oars old woman Orpheus palace Pelias Pelion Phineus Phrixus Princesses Queen replied rocks round sail saying Shawahi ship shore sister song spoke stone stood story tell thee Thorkill thou Tiphys told took Voyage of Maelduin weary wept wife wilt wind Wonder Voyage Zeus Zubaydah
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Página 42 - And the heroes sat silent awhile before the face of that ancient king. But Hera the awful goddess put courage into Jason's heart, and he rose and shouted loudly in answer, " We are no pirates nor lawless men. We come not to plunder and to ravage, or carry away slaves from your land ; but my uncle, the...
Página 61 - ... closed their heavy eyes ; and they dreamed of bright still gardens, and of slumbers under murmuring pines, till all their toil seemed foolishness, and they thought of their renown no more. Then one lifted his head suddenly, and cried, " What use in wandering forever ? Let us stay here and rest awhile.
Página 25 - ... beneath the mountain of the hundred springs. 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. And at last the ship was finished, and they tried to launch her down the beach ; but she was too heavy for them to move her, and her keel...
Página 2 - Hellens said that it hung in Colchis, which we call the Circassian coast, nailed to a beech-tree in the war-God's wood ; and that it was the fleece of the wondrous ram who bore Phrixus and Helle across the Euxine sea. For Phrixus and Helle were the children of the cloud-nymph, and of Athamas the Minuan king. And when a famine came upon the land, their cruel stepmother Ino wished to kill them, that her own children might reign, and said that they must be sacrificed on an altar, to turn away the anger...
Página 8 - Then ^Eson came in sadly, and Cheiron asked him, "Why came you not yourself to me, ./Eson the ^Eolid? " And ^Eson said : "I thought, Cheiron will pity the lad if he sees him come alone; and I wished to try whether he was fearless, and dare venture like a hero's son. But now I entreat you by Father Zeus, let the boy be your guest till better times, and train him among the sons of the heroes, that he may avenge his father's house.
Página 53 - 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 up his head, and watched them with his small bright eyes, and flashed his forked tongue, and roared like the fire among the woodlands, till the forest tossed and groaned. For his cry shook the trees from leaf to root, and swept over the long reaches of the river, and over ^Eetes' hall, and woke the sleepers...
Página 54 - ... till they heard the merry music of the surge upon the bar, as it tumbled in the moonlight all alone. Into the surge they rushed, and Argo leapt the breakers like a horse; for she knew the time was come to show her mettle, and win honour for the heroes and herself.
Página 45 - Unjustly is that fleece kept here, and by an unjust and lawless king; and unjustly shall I die in my youth, for I will attempt it ere another sun be set." Then Medeia trembled, and said, "No mortal man can reach that fleece, unless I guide him through. For round it, beyond the river, is a wall full nine ells high, with lofty towers and buttresses, and mighty gates of threefold brass; and over the gates the wall is arched, with golden battlements above. And...
Página 39 - But Tiphys the cunning helmsman stood silent, clenching his teeth, till he saw a heron come flying mast-high toward the rocks, and hover awhile before them, as if looking for a passage through. Then he cried, "Hera has sent us a pilot; let us follow the cunning bird." Then the heron flapped to and fro a moment, till he saw a hidden gap, and into it he rushed like an arrow, while the heroes watched what would befall. And the blue rocks clashed together as the bird fled swiftly through ; but they struck...
Página 56 - Ister* stream, and so came into the Adriatic, dragging their ship over the snowy Alps. And others say that they went southward, into the Red Indian Sea, and past the sunny lands where spices grow, round /Ethiopia toward the west; and that at last they came to Libya, and dragged their ship across the burning sands, and over the hills into the Syrtes, where the flats and quicksands spread for many a mile, between rich Cyrene and the Lotus-eaters