The Works of Charles Kingsley, 7. cilt

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Macmillan, 1885
 

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Sayfa 124 - And at day-dawn they looked eastward, and midway between the sea and the sky they saw white snow-peaks hanging, glittering sharp and bright above the clouds. And they knew that they were come to Caucasus, at the end of all the earth : Caucasus the highest of all mountains, the father of the rivers of the East.
Sayfa 182 - But she lifted up her hands before him, and sang, till he sank beneath her spell. And as he sank, his brazen limbs clanked heavily, and the earth groaned beneath his weight; and the liquid fire ran from his heel, like a stream of lava to the sea; and Medeia laughed, and called to the heroes, " Come ashore, and water your ship in peace.
Sayfa 223 - Ah, poor souls!" said the stranger. "Well for them that I looked back and saw them! And well for me too, for I shall have the more guests at my feast. Wait awhile till I go down and call them, and we will eat and drink together the live-long night. Happy am I, to whom Heaven sends so many guests at once!
Sayfa 144 - On and on, beneath the dewy darkness, they fled swiftly down the swirling stream ; underneath black walls, and temples, and the castles of the princes of the East ; past sluice-mouths, and fragrant gardens, and groves of all strange fruits ; past marshes where fat kine lay sleeping, and long beds of whispering reeds ; till they heard the merry music of the surge upon the bar, as it tumbled in the moonlight all alone. Into the surge they rushed, and Argo leapt the breakers like a horse; for she knew...
Sayfa 225 - asked Theseus, astonished. " Because, if a man be too tall for it, he lops his limbs till they be short enough, and if he be too short, he stretches his limbs till they be long enough ; but me only he spared, seven weary years agone ; for I alone of all fitted his bed exactly, so he spared me, and made me his slave. And once I was a wealthy merchant, and dwelt in brazen-gated Thebes ; but now I hew wood and draw water for him, the torment of all mortal men.
Sayfa 133 - Jason orJy smiled, and the heroes danced about him with delight ; and he leapt, and ran, and shouted, in the joy of that enormous strength, till the sun rose, and it was time to go and to claim Aietes
Sayfa 237 - And when the spring equinox came, a herald came to Athens, and stood in the market, and cried, " 0 people and King of Athens, where is your yearly tribute ? " Then a great lamentation arose throughout the city. But Theseus stood up to the herald, and cried, — " And who are you, dog-faced, who dare demand tribute here ? If I did not reverence your herald's staff, I would brain you with this club.
Sayfa 238 - ... land, and Megara which lies to the east, when he came hither with a great fleet of ships, enraged about the murder of his son. For his son Androgeos came hither to the Panathenaic games, and overcame all the Greeks in the sports, so that the people honoured him as a hero.

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