Therewith Geirmund went down clattering from the Hill and stood with his company. But a man came forth from the other side of the ring, and clomb the Hill: he was a red-haired man, rather big, clad in a skin coat, and bearing a bow in his hand and a quiver... Select Fables of Esop and Other Fabulists ... - Page 136by Robert Dodsley - 1781 - 228 pagesFull view - About this book
| Complete fabulist - 1732 - 402 pages
...who believe them of importance." . cin. DEATH and CUPID. JUPITER fent forth Death and Cupid to trarel round the world, giving each of them a bow in his...quiver of arrows at his back It was ordered by the difpofer of human affairs, that the arrows of Love fhould only wound the young, in order to fupply... | |
| Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1805 - 260 pages
...but his being found in bad company. FABLE LI. Death and Cupid. JUPITER fent forth Death and Cupid to travel round the world, giving each of them a bow...arrows of Love fhould only wound the young, in order to Aipply the decays o'f mortal men; and thole of Death were to itrikc old age, and free the world from... | |
| Aesop, Robert Dodsley - Conduct of life - 1809 - 316 pages
...but his being found in bad company. FABLE LI. Death and Cupid, "JUPITER fent forth Death and Cupid to travel " round the world, giving each of them a bow...of mortal men ; and thofe of Death were to ftrike old age, and free the world from an ufelefs charge. Our travellers, being one day extremely fatigued... | |
| Edward Thomas Coke - Atlantic States - 1833 - 462 pages
...sword and sash. The whole body had a very neat and striking appearance ; each archer carried a long bow in his hand, and a quiver of arrows at his back. I could have almost fancied myself in the Forest of Arden, or Merry Sherwood, instead of in one of... | |
| Edward Thomas Coke - 1833 - 542 pages
...sword and sash. The whole body had a very neat and striking appearance ; each archer carried a long bow in his hand, and a quiver of arrows at his back. I could have almost fancied myself in the Forest of Arden, or Merry Sherwood, instead of in one of... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1838 - 332 pages
...poetry, painting, and medicine : he is represented as a young man, of great elegance of person, with a bow in his hand, and a quiver of arrows at his back. Mars, the god of war, is drawn as an armed man in a car, with an inferior Mars. female deity, named... | |
| William Chambers - 1849 - 830 pages
...poetry, painting, and medicine; he is represented as a young man, of great elegance of person, with a bow in his hand, and a quiver of arrows at his back. Mars, the god of war, is drawn as an armed man in a car, with an inferior female deity, named Bellona,... | |
| William Reader (printer.) - 1856 - 484 pages
...Saxon MS. of the eighth century with drawings of archers, — one accompanied by a dog, having a bent bow in his hand and a quiver of arrows at his back ; and the other, with a bent bow and arrow fixed, in the act of shooting upwards, and carrying several... | |
| William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 824 pages
...poetry, painting, and medicine; he is represented as a young man, of great elegance of person, with a bow in his hand, and a quiver of arrows at his back. Mars, the god of war, is drawn as an armed man in a car, with an inferior female deity, named Bellona,... | |
| C; A. BLOSS. - 1867 - 452 pages
...the god of music, poetry, painting, and medicine. He was represented as a beautiful young man, with a bow in his hand and a quiver of arrows at his back. At the banquet of the gods on Olympus, Apollo played on his lyre while the Muses sang. When he resolved... | |
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