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... temples grey , ' ( Elton ) , and all is violence , oppression , and sword law ; until , at last , in the poet's own generation , the fair forms of all the nobler impulses , - ' From the broad earth have winged their heavenward flight ...
... temples grey , ' ( Elton ) , and all is violence , oppression , and sword law ; until , at last , in the poet's own generation , the fair forms of all the nobler impulses , - ' From the broad earth have winged their heavenward flight ...
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... temples . Dealing first with the creation of the world , he represents Chaos as primeval , and Earth , Tartarus , and ... temple at Pagasæ ; the elabor- ate description of the several parts of the buckler combin- ing the details of the ...
... temples . Dealing first with the creation of the world , he represents Chaos as primeval , and Earth , Tartarus , and ... temple at Pagasæ ; the elabor- ate description of the several parts of the buckler combin- ing the details of the ...
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... of sanctuary . King Pelasgus enters with his train , hears their story , hesitates from fear of the anger of Ægyptus , but yields on the maidens threatening to hang themselves in the temple . Whilst 30 THE CLASSICS FOR THE MILLION .
... of sanctuary . King Pelasgus enters with his train , hears their story , hesitates from fear of the anger of Ægyptus , but yields on the maidens threatening to hang themselves in the temple . Whilst 30 THE CLASSICS FOR THE MILLION .
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Henry Grey (F.R.B.S.). maidens threatening to hang themselves in the temple . Whilst Danaus goes to conciliate the citizens , his daughters appeal again to Jupiter to aid them , for the sake of their mother Io , whose life and wanderings ...
Henry Grey (F.R.B.S.). maidens threatening to hang themselves in the temple . Whilst Danaus goes to conciliate the citizens , his daughters appeal again to Jupiter to aid them , for the sake of their mother Io , whose life and wanderings ...
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... temple at Delphi , calling on the different deities by their names , and then she enters the folding doors from within which the mysterious oracles are uttered . But she rushes forth again in an agony of terror , while the scenery ...
... temple at Delphi , calling on the different deities by their names , and then she enters the folding doors from within which the mysterious oracles are uttered . But she rushes forth again in an agony of terror , while the scenery ...
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