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... fire of youth , the vigour of man , and the calm reflection of the grey - haired sage ; and there also are reflected in his poems the saga of the people and the doctrines of the ancient mysteries ; so that the mythology is to be ...
... fire of youth , the vigour of man , and the calm reflection of the grey - haired sage ; and there also are reflected in his poems the saga of the people and the doctrines of the ancient mysteries ; so that the mythology is to be ...
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... fire and sword and plunder had not annihilated , was completed by the rudeness of the Romans , who , as Pliny relates , on the conquest of Carthage found no book worthy of being translated into Latin but one on agriculture . All the ...
... fire and sword and plunder had not annihilated , was completed by the rudeness of the Romans , who , as Pliny relates , on the conquest of Carthage found no book worthy of being translated into Latin but one on agriculture . All the ...
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... fire , of air , and water ; the mutual attraction of the earth and the heavenly bodies , etc . ; — whose images are recognised by all authors in mythologic personification . The eternal foundation - matter of all things was Chaos ...
... fire , of air , and water ; the mutual attraction of the earth and the heavenly bodies , etc . ; — whose images are recognised by all authors in mythologic personification . The eternal foundation - matter of all things was Chaos ...
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... fire works incessantly as the opposing and expanding force of the subterranean air . Vulcan , a son of Jupiter , received the lordship of the subterrane . Like fire , which at first appears as a feeble spark , was Vulcan at his birth ...
... fire works incessantly as the opposing and expanding force of the subterranean air . Vulcan , a son of Jupiter , received the lordship of the subterrane . Like fire , which at first appears as a feeble spark , was Vulcan at his birth ...
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... fire - lord , and thence the Lemnian , on account of the volcanic island , and the oracle there . Like the earth , the air , and fire , water is an original element : according to Hesiod , Oceanos , the eldest of the Titans , the ...
... fire - lord , and thence the Lemnian , on account of the volcanic island , and the oracle there . Like the earth , the air , and fire , water is an original element : according to Hesiod , Oceanos , the eldest of the Titans , the ...
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