The Description of Greece, Band 3R. Priestley, 1824 |
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Seite 164 - That adverse gods commit to stern debate The best, the bravest, of the Grecian state. Young as ye are, this youthful heat restrain, Nor think your Nestor's years and wisdom vain. A godlike race of heroes once I knew, Such as no more these aged eyes shall view ! Lives there a chief to match Pirithous' fame, Dryas the bold, or Ceneus...
Seite 238 - ... universe, perpetually subsist according to nature, both the whole spheres, and the multitude coordinate to these wholes; and the only alteration which they experience, is a mutation of figure, and variation of light at different periods. But in the sublunary region, while the spheres of the elements remain on account of their subsistence as wholes, always according to nature, the parts of...
Seite 260 - Though bold in open field, they yet surround The town with walls, and mound inject on mound ; Here ramparts stood, there towers rose high in air, And here through seven wide portals rush'd the war.
Seite 300 - Proclus shortly after observes, "there is a terrestrial Ceres, Vesta, and Isis, as likewise a terrestrial Jupiter and a terrestrial Hermes, established about the one divinity of the earth, just as a multitude of celestial Gods proceeds about the one divinity of the heavens. For there are progressions of all the celestial Gods into the Earth: and Earth contains all things, in an earthly manner, which Heaven comprehends celestially. Hence we speak of a terrestrial Bacchus and a terrestrial Apollo,...
Seite 295 - In all the initiations and mysteries, the gods exhibit many forms of themselves, and appear in a. variety of shapes, and sometimes, indeed, a formless light of themselves is held forth to the view ; sometimes this light is according to a human form, and sometimes it proceeds into a different shape.
Seite 282 - Till, vain of mortals' empty praise, he strove To match the seed of cloud-compelling Jove ! Too daring bard ! whose unsuccessful pride Th' immortal Muses in their art defied.
Seite 258 - Dearumque facies uniformis: quse coeli luminosa culmina, maris salubria flamina, inferorum deplorata silentia nutibus meis dispenso : cujus numen unicum, multiformi specie, ritu vario, nomine multijugo totus veneratur orbis.
Seite 320 - Next, where the Sirens dwell, you plough the seas; Their song is death, and makes destruction please. Unblest the man, whom music wins to stay Nigh the cursed shore, and listen to the lay ; No more that wretch shall view the joys of life, His blooming offspring, or his beauteous wife ; In verdant meads they sport ; and wide around Lie human bones, that whiten all the ground...
Seite 319 - But when she places herself on the seat of the god she becomes accommodated to his stable prophetic power ; and from both these preparatory operations she becomes wholly possessed by the god. And then, indeed, he is present with and illuminates her in a separate manner, and is different from the fire, the spirit, the proper seat ; and, in short, from all the apparent apparatus of the place, whether physical or sacred.