Fables of the Ancients: In Philosophy, Morality, and Civil PolicyJ. Cundee, 1803 - 136 стор. |
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Achelous actions allegory ancients consecrat appears arts asses ears Atalanta Bacchus behaviour and fortune betwixt cause Ceres Cupid dæmons death Democritus denotes depraved DEUCALION Diomed disposition generally affect divine earth effect elegant elegantly endeavouring EXPLAINED OF SELF-LOVE fable seems invented fate to ap female furies fire flower gant emblem goddess gods grow strangely indolent Hippomenes human infernal powers infinite Jupiter justly kind lead a solitary length mankind manner matter Mercury monster moral motion muses MYTHOLOGY NARCISSUS natural bodies natural philosophy noble Novum Organum once his fate Orpheus paint the behaviour Pallas passion Pentheus perfectly stu perpetual Perseus persons commonly lead pleasures Pluto present princes proach a clear Promethe Prometheus Proserpine prudent remained continually fixed rendered still fonder riddles ruffle their minds sacred Saturn secret Sirens Sphinx spirit subdued Sylva Sylvarum Thebes ther things tion torch ture Typhon UNSEASONABLE ADVICE vulgar whereof whilst wings youth
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Сторінка 35 - She, prompted by female curiosity, and the beauty of the golden fruit, starts from the course, to take up the apple. Hippomenes, in the mean time, hold? on his way, and steps before her ; but she, by her natural swiftness, soon fetches up her lost ground, and leaves him again behind.
Сторінка 4 - Upon deliberate consideration, my judgment is, that a concealed instruction and allegory was originally intended in many of the ancient fables.
Сторінка 6 - ... drew from the common stock of ancient tradition ; and varied but in point of embellishment, which is their own, And this principally raises my esteem of these fables ; which I receive, not as the product of the age, or invention of the poets, but as sacred reliques, gentle whispers, and the breath of better times ; that from the traditions of more ancient nations came, at length, into the flutes and trumpets of the Greeks.
Сторінка 39 - ... confidence, soared aloft, and fell down headlong. EXPLANATION. — The fable is vulgar, and easily interpreted ; for the path of virtue lies straight between excess on the one side, and defect on the other. And no wonder that excess should prove the bane of Icarus, exulting in juvenile strength and vigor ; for excess is the natural vice of youth, as defect is that of old age ; and if a man must perish by either, Icarus chose the better of the" two ; for all defects are justly esteemed more depraved...
Сторінка 41 - Thus the summary or collective law of nature, or the principle of love, impressed by God upon the original particles of all things, so as to make them attack each other and come together, by the repetition and multiplication whereof all the variety in the universe is produced, can scarce possibly find full admittance in the thoughts of men, though some faint notion may be had thereof.
Сторінка 48 - Sharp and hooked talons are elegantly attributed to her; because the axioms and arguments of science enter the mind, lay hold of it, fix it down, and keep it from moving or slipping away. This the sacred philosopher observed, when he said, " The words of the wise are like goads, or nails, driven far in.
Сторінка 35 - Atalanta, who was exceeding fleet, contended with Hippomenes in the course, on condition that, if Hippomenes won, he should espouse her, or forfeit his life if he lost. The Match was very unequal, for Atalanta had conquered numbers to their destruction: Hippomenes therefore had recourse...
Сторінка 41 - Proteus seems to mean nothing else than the several kinds of animals, plants, and minerals, in which matter appears to diffuse and spend itself: so that, after having formed these several species, and as it were finished its task, it...
Сторінка 60 - ... by no means be got away ; but remained continually fixed and gazing ; till at length he was turned into a flower, of his own name, -which appears early in the spring, and is consecrated to the infernal deities, Pluto, Proserpine, and the furies. EXPLANATION. THIS fable seems to paint the behaviour and fortune of those, who, for their beauty, or other endowments, wherewith nature, (without any industry of their own,) has graced and adorned them, are extravagantly fond of themselves.