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... asphodel , the very beasts which he himself had slain on the lonely hills , with a strong mace all of bronze in his hand , that is ever unbroken.'1 His stellar connexion is treated as a fact apart . The poet does not appear to feel any ...
... asphodel , the very beasts which he himself had slain on the lonely hills , with a strong mace all of bronze in his hand , that is ever unbroken.'1 His stellar connexion is treated as a fact apart . The poet does not appear to feel any ...
Page 161
... asphodel send up flower- stalks reaching a horse's withers ; the elm - bushes are ' Lord Derby's Iliad , xxi . 350–52 . 2 Berlin . Abhandlungen , 1879 , p . 71 . M entangled with roses and arums ; the turf is sprinkled TREES AND FLOWERS ...
... asphodel send up flower- stalks reaching a horse's withers ; the elm - bushes are ' Lord Derby's Iliad , xxi . 350–52 . 2 Berlin . Abhandlungen , 1879 , p . 71 . M entangled with roses and arums ; the turf is sprinkled TREES AND FLOWERS ...
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... asphodel plains , Odysseus watched Orion , a spectral huntsman pursuing spectral game there Agamemnon denounced the treachery of Clytemnestra : there Ajax still nursed his wrath at the award of the Argive kings : there Achilles gnawed a ...
... asphodel plains , Odysseus watched Orion , a spectral huntsman pursuing spectral game there Agamemnon denounced the treachery of Clytemnestra : there Ajax still nursed his wrath at the award of the Argive kings : there Achilles gnawed a ...
Page 208
... asphodel : wherein he has entirely missed what may with some reason be called the local colouring of Hades . In order to explain the lugubrious associations of the branched asphodel , we must go back to an early ' The daffodil has no ...
... asphodel : wherein he has entirely missed what may with some reason be called the local colouring of Hades . In order to explain the lugubrious associations of the branched asphodel , we must go back to an early ' The daffodil has no ...
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... asphodel lauded by Hesiod . Theophrastus tells us that the roasted stalk , as well as the seed of the asphodel served for food ; but chiefly its roots , which , bruised up with figs , were in extensive use . Pliny seems to prefer them ...
... asphodel lauded by Hesiod . Theophrastus tells us that the roasted stalk , as well as the seed of the asphodel served for food ; but chiefly its roots , which , bruised up with figs , were in extensive use . Pliny seems to prefer them ...
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