The Tree of Mythology, Its Growth and Fruitage: Genesis of the Nursery Tale, Saws of Folk-lore, EtcC. W. Bardeen, 1888 - 288 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
ages Akrisios ancient Apollon appear Aryan Baldur beasts beautiful belief bird blood Brynhild carry childhood clouds conception dark dawn death deity described divine doubtless dread earth Egyptian fact Fafnir fancy father figure fire folk-lore forest German gods golden Greek Greek mythology Grimm heaven Helheim Herakles Hermes hero Hindu hint human mind Indian Indra King Arthur land language legend light Lohengrin magic maiden Max Müller Michabo moon mother mountain myth mythic mythology nature never night Norse Norse mythology Norsemen Odin Odysseus Ojibwa origin Perseus person Phoibos poet races Rangi and Papa reminiscence sacred Saint savage says seems seen serpent shadow significant Skirnir sleep song soul speak speech spirit story superstition survival symbol tale tell things thought tion to-day told Toltec tree truth Tylor VASILISSA THE BEAUTIFUL wind witch words worship wound Yggdrasil Zeus
Pasajes populares
Página 210 - Sweet fields, beyond the swelling flood, Stand dressed in living green ; So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Página 66 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains, They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Página 221 - I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
Página 210 - There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers ; Death like a narrow sea divides This heavenly land from ours.
Página 191 - Pindar; but, when some one was commending them, he said that "^Eschylus and the Greeks, in describing Apollo and Orpheus, had given no song, or no good one. They ought not to have moved trees, but to have chanted to the gods such a hymn as would have sung all their old ideas out of their heads, and new ones in.
Página 251 - He rears, as I have said, the whole vegetable world, and through it the animal; the lilies of the field are his workmanship, the verdure of the meadows, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. He forms the muscle, he urges the blood, he builds the brain. His...
Página 9 - Did you never observe (while rocking winds are piping loud) that pause, as the gust is recollecting itself, and rising upon the ear in a shrill and plaintive note, like the swell of an JEolian harp? I do assure you there is nothing in the world so like the voice of a spirit.
Página 230 - ... melt in air, — the flux of power is eternally the same. It rolls in music through the ages, and all terrestrial energy, — the manifestations of life, as well as the display of phenomena, are but the modulations of its rhythm.
Página 23 - Go thou to men, and tell them, As I die, and dying live, so ye shall also die, and dying live.
Página 214 - If on a cold, polished piece of metal any object, as a "wafer, is laid, and the metal then breathed upon, and when the moisture has had time to disappear, the wafer be thrown off, though now upon the polished surface the most critical inspection can discover no trace of any form, if we breathe upon it a spectral figure of the wafer comes into view ; and this may be done again and again. Nay, even more ; if the polished metal be carefully put aside where nothing can deteriorate its surface...