A Scriptural and Allegorical Glossary to Milton's Paradise LostAuthoress, 1828 - 282 pages |
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... supposed to flourish on its summit , which , it was pretended , reached to the heavens . But the proper description of Olympus is , that it is a mountain in Macedonia , covered with grottoes and woods , with an elevation of a mile , or ...
... supposed to flourish on its summit , which , it was pretended , reached to the heavens . But the proper description of Olympus is , that it is a mountain in Macedonia , covered with grottoes and woods , with an elevation of a mile , or ...
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... supposed , after the 364th century , in the year 440 , of the Christian era . It was universally adopted , not only by the Greeks , but by many of the neigh- bouring countries , though still the Pythian games served as an epoch to the ...
... supposed , after the 364th century , in the year 440 , of the Christian era . It was universally adopted , not only by the Greeks , but by many of the neigh- bouring countries , though still the Pythian games served as an epoch to the ...
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... supposed to be the ministers of vengeance of the gods ; and therefore represented stern and inexorable , always employed in punishing the guilty , on earth as well as in the infernal regions . 611 Medusa with gorgonian terror guards ...
... supposed to be the ministers of vengeance of the gods ; and therefore represented stern and inexorable , always employed in punishing the guilty , on earth as well as in the infernal regions . 611 Medusa with gorgonian terror guards ...
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... supposed to deal with familiar spirits ; but now forbidden by their laws , since they embraced christianity . A , D. 1275 . 692 Drew after him the third part of heaven's sons . His cruelty , his subtilty , his experience in all the arts ...
... supposed to deal with familiar spirits ; but now forbidden by their laws , since they embraced christianity . A , D. 1275 . 692 Drew after him the third part of heaven's sons . His cruelty , his subtilty , his experience in all the arts ...
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... supposed , that Charybdis was an avaricious woman , who stole the oxen of Hercules , for which theft , she was struck with thunder by Jupiter , and changed into a whirlpool . 1033 God and good angels guard by special grace . Are they ...
... supposed , that Charybdis was an avaricious woman , who stole the oxen of Hercules , for which theft , she was struck with thunder by Jupiter , and changed into a whirlpool . 1033 God and good angels guard by special grace . Are they ...
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