Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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Page 49
... classical pretensions of the urn . All associations connected with the latter are lugubrious and mortuary ; it has funeral , cinerary , and lachrymal namesakes , with whom we need not sadden our thoughts in the hours of recreation . Be ...
... classical pretensions of the urn . All associations connected with the latter are lugubrious and mortuary ; it has funeral , cinerary , and lachrymal namesakes , with whom we need not sadden our thoughts in the hours of recreation . Be ...
Page 72
... classical derivations . Let us consider , for instance , the hebdomadary ( as Dr. Johnson would call it ) , or the days of the week , named after the Sun , the Moon , Tuisco , Woden or Odin , Thor , Freya , and Saturn ; four ...
... classical derivations . Let us consider , for instance , the hebdomadary ( as Dr. Johnson would call it ) , or the days of the week , named after the Sun , the Moon , Tuisco , Woden or Odin , Thor , Freya , and Saturn ; four ...
Page 73
... classical fictions connected with the glorious god of the Sun , the Apollo of the poets , the patron deity of Delphi and of Delos . How beau- tiful is the morning ! Slowly rising above the moun- tains of Argos , the sun shoots a golden ...
... classical fictions connected with the glorious god of the Sun , the Apollo of the poets , the patron deity of Delphi and of Delos . How beau- tiful is the morning ! Slowly rising above the moun- tains of Argos , the sun shoots a golden ...
Page 97
... , * This false taste , however , may boast the sanction of a most classical age . Pliny , in the description of his Tuscan Villa , VOL . I. F from their being so easily tonsile , were invaluable for WALKS IN THE GARDEN . 97.
... , * This false taste , however , may boast the sanction of a most classical age . Pliny , in the description of his Tuscan Villa , VOL . I. F from their being so easily tonsile , were invaluable for WALKS IN THE GARDEN . 97.
Page 98
... classical associa- tions assure to it an imperishable youth and freshness . Into this tree was Daphne metamorphosed when she fled from Apollo in the vale of Tempè ; with these leaves did the enamoured god bind his brows , and decree ...
... classical associa- tions assure to it an imperishable youth and freshness . Into this tree was Daphne metamorphosed when she fled from Apollo in the vale of Tempè ; with these leaves did the enamoured god bind his brows , and decree ...
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