The Scientific Library; Or, Repository of Useful and Polite Literature: Comprising Astronomy, Geography, Mythology, Ancient History, Modern History, and Chronology ...S. Wood & Sons, 1818 |
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Seite 18 - Hermes obeys; with golden pinions binds His flying feet, and mounts the western winds: And, whether o'er the seas or earth he flies, With rapid force they bear him down the skies. But first he grasps within his awful hand The mark of...
Seite 49 - This way, and that, th' impatient captives tend, And pressing for release, the mountains rend. High in his hall, th' undaunted monarch stands, And shakes his sceptre, and their rage commands: Which did he not, their unresisted sway Would sweep the world before them in their way: Earth, air and seas through empty...
Seite 59 - Let every swain adore her power divine, And milk and honey mix with sparkling wine ; Let all the choir of clowns attend the show, In long procession, shouting as they go ; Invoking her to bless their yearly stores, Inviting plenty to their crowded floors. Thus in the spring, and thus in summer's heat, Before the sickles touch the ripening wheat, On Ceres...
Seite 132 - Saturn, the youngest of all the gods, was my father. I am Osiris, who conducted a large and numerous army as far as the deserts of India, and travelled over the greatest part of the world, and visited the streams of the Isther, and the remote shores of the ocean, diffusing benevolence to all the inhabitants of the earth.
Seite 69 - For he, who sings thy praise, secures his own. } Proceed, my Muse ! — Two Satyrs, on the ground, Stretch'd at his ease, their sire Silenus found. Dozed with his fumes, and heavy with his load, } They found him snoring in his dark abode, > And seized with youthful arms the drunken god.
Seite 3 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Seite 64 - Astraea ; but the wickedness and impiety of mankind drove her to heaven in the brazen and iron ages, and she was placed among the constellations of the zodiac, under the name of Virgo.
Seite 47 - Some represent him lame and deformed, holding a hammer, raised in the air, ready to strike; while, with the other hand, he turns with pincers a thunderbolt on his anvil. He appears, on some monuments, with a long beard, dishevelled hair, half naked, and a small round cap on his head, while he holds a hammer and pincers in his hand.