Author: Richard Newton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368174576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
The Giants and How to Hight Them
Author: Richard Newton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368174576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368174576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
The Giants and How to Hight Them
Author: Richard Newton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368174568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368174568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
A Book of Giants: Tales of very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science
Author: Henry Wysham Lanier
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465612610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
We think of Zeus as the mightiest god of Greece, accompanied by his servants Force, Might and Victory,—the Cloud-gatherer, the Rain-giver, the Thunderer, the Lightning-hurler, the Sender of Prodigies, the Guider of Stars, the Ruler of other gods and men, whom even Poseidon the Earth-shaker must obey. The very name reverberates with majesty, power, dominion. But the beginnings of this vast deity were in darkness and danger. True, the reign of his father Kronos was that Golden Age when, in the fresh morning of the world, "Heat and Cold were not yet at strife, the Seasons had not begun their mystic dance, and one mild and equable climate stretched from pole to pole; when the trees bore fruit and the vine her purple clusters all the year, and honey-dew dripped from the laurel and juniper which are now so bitter; when flowers of every hue filled the air with perpetual fragrance, the lion gambolled with the kid, and the unfanged serpent was as harmless as the dove"; when over-curious Pandora not yet having released her boxful of ills, men had neither care nor sickness nor old age, but, after centuries of blissful calm, faded like flowers and became kindly spirit-guardians of their successors. Yet amid this charming serenity Kronos could never forget the curse of his father Uranus whom he had overthrown, and the prophecy that he himself should in his turn be cast down by his own children. "Wherefore being resolved to defeat that prophecy, he swallowed each child his wife Rhea brought forth, as soon as it was born. When Rhea had thus lost five babes,—Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon—and knew herself about to bear yet another, she made her prayer to Uranus her ancient sire, imploring counsel and aid.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465612610
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
We think of Zeus as the mightiest god of Greece, accompanied by his servants Force, Might and Victory,—the Cloud-gatherer, the Rain-giver, the Thunderer, the Lightning-hurler, the Sender of Prodigies, the Guider of Stars, the Ruler of other gods and men, whom even Poseidon the Earth-shaker must obey. The very name reverberates with majesty, power, dominion. But the beginnings of this vast deity were in darkness and danger. True, the reign of his father Kronos was that Golden Age when, in the fresh morning of the world, "Heat and Cold were not yet at strife, the Seasons had not begun their mystic dance, and one mild and equable climate stretched from pole to pole; when the trees bore fruit and the vine her purple clusters all the year, and honey-dew dripped from the laurel and juniper which are now so bitter; when flowers of every hue filled the air with perpetual fragrance, the lion gambolled with the kid, and the unfanged serpent was as harmless as the dove"; when over-curious Pandora not yet having released her boxful of ills, men had neither care nor sickness nor old age, but, after centuries of blissful calm, faded like flowers and became kindly spirit-guardians of their successors. Yet amid this charming serenity Kronos could never forget the curse of his father Uranus whom he had overthrown, and the prophecy that he himself should in his turn be cast down by his own children. "Wherefore being resolved to defeat that prophecy, he swallowed each child his wife Rhea brought forth, as soon as it was born. When Rhea had thus lost five babes,—Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades and Poseidon—and knew herself about to bear yet another, she made her prayer to Uranus her ancient sire, imploring counsel and aid.
The Prose Or Younger Edda Commonly Ascribed to Snorri Sturluson
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Category : Mythology, Norse
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Category : Mythology, Norse
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Engineering and Mining Journal
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
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A Supplement of the Faery Queene
Author: Christopher Burlinson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526158582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles – a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. The poem shadows recent English history, and the major military and political events of the Thirty Years War. But the Supplement is also an ambitiously intertextual poem, weaving together materials from mythic, literary, historical, scientific, theological, and many other kinds of written sources. Its encyclopaedic ambitions combine with Knevet's historical focus to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power. This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary, positioned at the back of the book, will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures, and allusions.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526158582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles – a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style. The poem shadows recent English history, and the major military and political events of the Thirty Years War. But the Supplement is also an ambitiously intertextual poem, weaving together materials from mythic, literary, historical, scientific, theological, and many other kinds of written sources. Its encyclopaedic ambitions combine with Knevet's historical focus to produce an allegorical epic poem of considerable interest and power. This new edition of Knevet's Supplement, the first scholarly text of the poem ever published, situates it in its literary, historical, biographical, and intellectual contexts. An extensive introduction and copious critical commentary, positioned at the back of the book, will enable students and scholars alike to access Knevet's complicated and enigmatic meanings, structures, and allusions.
The Ladies' Repository
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Health Reformer
Author: John Harvey Kellogg
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Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Ladies' Repository
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Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Holy Bible Faithfvlly Translated Into English
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Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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Languages : en
Pages : 1042
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