Readings in Folk-lore: Short Studies in the Mythology of America, Great Britain, the Norse Countries, Germany, India, Syria, Egypt, and PersiaAmerican Book Company, 1893 - 448 pages |
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... may have the meaning of a whole lifetime of human endeavor , or a whole comedy or tragedy of human experience . Words are wonderful things ; they carry with them the story of our race . They are sacred NATURE AND VALUE OF FOLK - LORE . 13.
... may have the meaning of a whole lifetime of human endeavor , or a whole comedy or tragedy of human experience . Words are wonderful things ; they carry with them the story of our race . They are sacred NATURE AND VALUE OF FOLK - LORE . 13.
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... things ; they hold all that can be expressed of human happiness and mis- ery , hope and despair . The universality of our folk - lore is marvelous . One of our lightly spoken proverbs may date back through thou- sands of years to Æsop ...
... things ; they hold all that can be expressed of human happiness and mis- ery , hope and despair . The universality of our folk - lore is marvelous . One of our lightly spoken proverbs may date back through thou- sands of years to Æsop ...
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... thing which we think usually lifts the hero , he plods on , and at last comes to where his very ideal is seen , and he is disappointed even in that . A squat tower appears , where once he thought the City of God would lift him . Not ...
... thing which we think usually lifts the hero , he plods on , and at last comes to where his very ideal is seen , and he is disappointed even in that . A squat tower appears , where once he thought the City of God would lift him . Not ...
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... thing does touch his ravenous paws , Or what within his reach he ever draws . But his most hideous head my tongue to tell Does tremble ; for his deep devouring jaws Wide gaped , like the grisly mouth of hell , Through which into his ...
... thing does touch his ravenous paws , Or what within his reach he ever draws . But his most hideous head my tongue to tell Does tremble ; for his deep devouring jaws Wide gaped , like the grisly mouth of hell , Through which into his ...
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... things did grow , And freely sprang out of the fruitful ground , As incorrupted Nature did them sow , Till that dread dragon all did overthrow . Another like fair tree eke grew thereby , Whereof whoso THE FAERIE QUEENE . 87.
... things did grow , And freely sprang out of the fruitful ground , As incorrupted Nature did them sow , Till that dread dragon all did overthrow . Another like fair tree eke grew thereby , Whereof whoso THE FAERIE QUEENE . 87.
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Page 346 - And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail, And the idols are broke in the temple of Baal; And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword, Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Page 38 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now; This crust is my body broken for thee; This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor,...
Page 325 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 142 - Nick, in shape o' beast; A towzie tyke, black, grim, and large, To gie them music was his charge: He screw'd the pipes and gart them skirl, Till roof and rafters a...
Page 256 - To Rat-land home his commentary: Which was, 'At the first shrill notes of the pipe, I heard a sound as of scraping tripe, And putting apples, wondrous ripe, Into a cider-press's gripe: And a moving away of pickle-tub-boards, And a leaving ajar of conserve-cupboards, And a drawing the corks of train-oil-flasks, And a breaking the hoops of butter-casks; And it seemed as if a voice (Sweeter far than by harp or by psaltery Is breathed) called out, Oh rats, rejoice!
Page 320 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again.
Page 323 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 406 - The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two — was gone. XVII Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour, and went his way.
Page 405 - Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday? And this first Summer month that brings the Rose Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
Page 323 - In this thing the LORD pardon thy servant, that when my master goeth into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leaneth on my hand, and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon : when I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the LORD pardon thy servant in this thing.