...) In classical superstitionthe black poplar was consecrated to the goddess Proserpine, and the whitepoplar to Hercules...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...This was probably the origin of the classical story ofNarcissus...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...At first she and her company did obtain a few engagements at one or two of the minor theatres, to give representations of some of the French classical comedies in the original language...
Baroness Emmuska Orczy 「The Elusive Pimpernel」
...This is only an aside to justify the use of classical names...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...The materials are remarkably deficient between the fourteenth century and the Roman classical period...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...The gooseberry is not alluded to by writers of the classical period...
Charles Darwin 「The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.」
...She generally stands onthree legs, her fourth lifted up like a classical lion that has lost itsmarble ball...
Theophile Gautier F. C. de Sumichrast 「My Private Menagerie」
...But the meaning of the word "beauty" in the fine arts, and in classical literature, is properly restricted to those very qualities in which the locomotion of a swallow differs from that of an engine...
John Ruskin 「Love's Meinie」
...' In either case, its proper classical English sense is given by Johnson as "a mean, awkward fellow; a bumpkin, a clown...
John Ruskin 「Love's Meinie」
...It never occurred to me, when I was writing of classical landscape, that 'Poussin' to a French ear conveyed the idea of 'chicken,' or of the young of birds in general...
John Ruskin 「Love's Meinie」
...In that classical atmosphere, there was talk of Procas, King of Alba, and of his two sons, Numitor and Amulius...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Once, also, I listened to the grave recital—by a classical scholar too—of a murderous onslaught made by a Privet Hawk-moth on the neck of a lady, and how it "bit a piece clean out...
W. S. Coleman 「British Butterfiles」
...His history dates back to classical and Biblical times, andmention is made of him both in the Iliad and in the Bible...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...In classical antiquity the Greek island of Lemnos was devoted tothe worship of the smith-god Hephaestus, who was said to havefallen on it when Zeus hurled him from heaven...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...The classical fragments include many texts of lost authors, including Menander...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
...As prototypes of a classical and Christian street-shrine,respectively, we may take the ædicula compitalis of MercuriusSobrius, discovered in April, 1888, near S...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...The customs and practices of the classical age were sodeeply rooted among the citizens that even now, after alapse of sixteen centuries, they are noticeable to a great extent...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...In the course of the excavations for the baldacchino,the remains of classical columbaria were found afew feet from the grave of the apostle, with their inscriptionsstill in place...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...Mention of the structure, with its classical denominationof "Mausileos," appears in the life of Stephen II...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
..." The exploration ofunderground Rome must be greeted with pleasure, not onlyby the pious believers in Christ and his martyrs, but alsoby agnostic students of classical history...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
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