Tanglewood Tales for Girls & BoysMifflin & Company, 1883 - 222 pages |
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answered Antæus Ariadne arms Athens beautiful behold bird brave brazen brazen bulls breath brother bull Cadmus chariot child Chiron Cilix Circe Colchis companions comrades creature Crete cried daughter dear mother dragon dragon's teeth earth enchantress Europa Eurylochus Eustace eyes face fancied father Favorite Poems feet flowers friends Giant goblet Golden Fleece grew ground hand happened head heard heart Hecate Hercules King Ægeus King Minos King Pelias King Pluto King Ulysses king's knew looked maidens Medea Metanira mighty Hercules Minotaur mischief monster Mother Ceres mouth never palace peep Phoenix Pittheus pomegranate poor pretty Prince Jason Prince Theseus Proserpina Pygmies Quicksilver sail sandals seemed seen shouted smile steps stood stranger sword TANGLEWOOD TALES tell terrible Thasus thing thou thought throne told took tree two-and-twenty vessel voice weary wicked wings woman wonder young youth
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Page 4 - Mr. Alcott expended a good deal of taste and some money (to no great purpose) in forming the hillside behind the house into terraces, and building arbors and summer-houses of rough stems and branches and trees, on a system of his own.
Page 146 - Will not you like to ride a little way with me, in my beautiful chariot?" But Proserpina was so. alarmed, that she wished for nothing but to get out of his reach. And no wonder. The stranger did not look remarkably...
Page 180 - I have sometimes suspected that Master Chiron was not really very different from other people, but that, being a kindhearted and merry old fellow, he was in the habit of making believe that he was a horse, and scrambling about the schoolroom on all fours, and letting the little boys ride upon his back. And so, when his scholars had grown up, and grown old, and were trotting their grandchildren on their knees, they told them about the sports of their school days ; and these young folks took the idea...
Page 117 - At length they came within full sight of the palace, which proved to be very large and lofty, with a great number of airy pinnacles upon its roof. Though it was now midday, and the sun shone brightly over the marble front, yet its snowy whiteness, and its fantastic...
Page 48 - ... affectionate manner, far, far off, in the middle of hot Africa. The Pygmies were so small, and there were so many sandy deserts and such high mountains between them and the rest of mankind, that nobody could get a peep at them of tener than once in a hundred years.
Page 173 - Well, I have not deserved it of you, after keeping you a prisoner for so many months, and starving you, besides. Are you not terribly hungry ? Is there nothing which I can get you to eat?
Page 68 - Bygmies away as fast as they came nigh. It was found necessary, therefore, to hit upon some other method of carrying on the war. After holding a council, the captains ordered their troops to collect sticks, straws, dry weeds, and whatever combustible stuff they could find, and make a pile of it, heaping it high around the head of Hercules. As a great many thousand Pygmies were employed in this task, they soon brought together several bushels of inflammatory matter, and raised so tall a heap, that,...
Page 16 - ... strain at the huge mass of stone, — striving, child as he was, to do what a giant could hardly have done without taking both of his great hands to the task. Meanwhile the rock seemed to be sinking farther and farther into the ground. The moss grew over it thicker and thicker, until at last it looked almost like a soft green seat, with only a few gray knobs of granite peeping out. The overhanging trees, also, shed their brown leaves upon it as often as the autumn came; and at its base grew ferns...
Page 90 - Full of these remembrances, he came within sight of a lofty mountain, which the people thereabouts told him was called Parnassus. On the slope of Mount Parnassus was the famous Delphi, whither Cadmus was going. This Delphi was supposed to be the very midmost spot of the whole world. The place of the oracle was a certain cavity in the mountain - side, over which, when Cadmus came thither, he found a rude bower of branches. It reminded him of those which he had helped to build for Phoenix and Cilix,...