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... birds thereon , and from their friction fire was produced , covering the mountain with smoke . The fire is at length quenched by a shower of cloud - borne water poured down by the immortal Indra ; and now a heterogeneous stream of the ...
... birds thereon , and from their friction fire was produced , covering the mountain with smoke . The fire is at length quenched by a shower of cloud - borne water poured down by the immortal Indra ; and now a heterogeneous stream of the ...
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... Birds - Survival in the Wishing- bone - Miracles wrought by the Rod - Extreme Development of Rhabdomancy among the Finns - Miraculous Virtues as- cribed to Trees - Divination by Arrows - Used in casting Lots -Belomancy practised by ...
... Birds - Survival in the Wishing- bone - Miracles wrought by the Rod - Extreme Development of Rhabdomancy among the Finns - Miraculous Virtues as- cribed to Trees - Divination by Arrows - Used in casting Lots -Belomancy practised by ...
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... bird perched upon it , thus evidently connecting it with augury . " The bifurcated stick , " says Tyndale in his book on Sardinia , 2 " must have been an important symbol ; it appears in Etruscan tombs , and on Babylonian cylinders . In ...
... bird perched upon it , thus evidently connecting it with augury . " The bifurcated stick , " says Tyndale in his book on Sardinia , 2 " must have been an important symbol ; it appears in Etruscan tombs , and on Babylonian cylinders . In ...
Page 147
... birds may here be noted . The first is the use still made by young people of the merrythought or wishing - bone of a fowl , the form of which is that of the divining - rod , and also of the branching horns of the stag ; this pulled ...
... birds may here be noted . The first is the use still made by young people of the merrythought or wishing - bone of a fowl , the form of which is that of the divining - rod , and also of the branching horns of the stag ; this pulled ...
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... curious superstition and its bearing upon early inventions , than to investi- gate the truth or falsehood of an assumed power . CHAPTER XI . BIRDS IN THE MYTHOLOGIES OF VARIOUS RACES.1 DIVINATION - BY THE ROD AND BY THE ARROW . 159.
... curious superstition and its bearing upon early inventions , than to investi- gate the truth or falsehood of an assumed power . CHAPTER XI . BIRDS IN THE MYTHOLOGIES OF VARIOUS RACES.1 DIVINATION - BY THE ROD AND BY THE ARROW . 159.
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Page 243 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With Nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown : He raised a mortal to the skies : She drew an angel down.
Page 234 - Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. (Enter Musicians) Come, ho, and...
Page 115 - With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 259 - Ay me! I fondly dream — Had ye been there — for what could that have done? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore. The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When by the rout that made the hideous roar His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore?
Page 235 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen, fired another Troy! — Thus, long ago, Ere heaving bellows learn'd to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
Page 257 - Now strike the golden lyre again! A louder yet, and yet a louder strain, Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark! the horrid sound Has raised up his head! As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge! revenge!
Page 265 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 250 - And as for what your brain bewilders, If I can "rid your town of rats Will you give me a thousand guilders?
Page 243 - And make despair and madness please : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the bliss above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Maker's praise confin'd the sound. When the full organ joins .the tuneful quire, Th...
Page 234 - Thus saith the ocean chime: Storm, billow, whirlwind past, " Come to thy God at last !