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The Queen of the air: being a study of the Greek myths of cloud and storm Bookreader Item Preview
- PREFACE.
- PREFACE. 5
- ATHENA IN THE HEAVENS. 9
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- 7. The great myths; that is to say, myths made by great people. For the first plain fact about myth-making is one which has been most strangely
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- And again, Hotspur, sending challenge to Prince Harry :
- Again, Orlando in the wrestling :
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- Ares is the first to cast his spear ; then — note this — Pope says :
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- (Athena in the Earth.}
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- 62. And we are led to feel this still more strongly
- 64. Now we have two orders of animals to take some note of in connection with Athena, and one
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- 76. Next, in the potato, we have the scarcely innocent underground stem of one of a tribe set
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- 89. There is no answer. But the sum of all is, that over the entire surface of the earth, and its
- 91. And in doing this we have first to note the
- 94. There is yet, however, another color of great importance in the conception of Athena — the dark blue of her aegis. Just as the blue or gray of her
- 102 THE QUEEN OF THE AIR.
- The religious passion is nearly always vividest when the art is weakest ; and the technical skill only
- 97. It will take me many a day yet — if days,
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- 1 1 6. And further, note this, which is vital to us
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- 122. Then, touching the accumulation of wealth
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- All measures of reformation are effective in exact proportion to their timeliness : partial decay may be
- The last two departments, and some subordinate
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- 148. I believe we can nowhere find a better type of a perfectly free creature than in the common house-fly. Nor free only, but brave ; and irreverent to a degree which I think no human republican could
- If a man's gun and shot are fyis qwn, he may fire in any direction he pleases,
- 158. Oppose to such a life as this that of a great painter amidst the elements of modern English liberty. Take the life of Turner, in whom the ar- tistic energy and inherent love of beauty were at
- 161. Among the photographs of Greek coins which present so many admirable subjects for your
- 170. But, secondly, Greek art is always exem- plary in disposition of masses, which is a thing that
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- Ruskin, John 5259 The queen of the air Al 1900
MY days and strength have lately been much broken ; and I never more felt the insufficiency of both than in preparing for the press the fol- lowing desultory memoranda on a most noble subject. But I leave them now as they stand, for no time nor labor would be enough to com- plete them to my contentmen...
petency to enclose in bottles elemental forces that were — not of the sky. Let me, in thanking Professor Tyndall for the true wonder of this piece of work, ask his pardon, and that of all masters in physical science, for any words of mine, either in the following pages or elsewhere, that may ever see...
fulness of intended meaning I shall probably multiply and refine upon these improbabilities ; as, suppose, if, instead of desiring only to tell you that Heicules purified a marsh, I wished you to understand that he contended with the venom and vapor of envy and evil ambition, whether in other men's souls...
which both have sprung, and in which both for ever remain rooted. Thus, from the real sun, rising and setting, — from the real atmosphere, calm in its dominion of unfading blue, and fierce in its descent of tempest, — the Greek forms first the idea of two entirely personal and corporeal gods, whose lim...
14 THE QUEEN OF THE AIR. lost sight of, — that you cannot make a myth unless you have something to make it of. You cannot tell a secret which you do n't know. If the myth is about the sky, it must have been made by some- body who had looked at the sky. If the myth is about justice and fortit...
for an intelligent answering sympathy. If it first arose among a people who dwelt under stainless skies, and measured their journeys by ascending and declining stars, we certainly cannot read their story, if we have never seen anything above us in the day but smoke, nor anything around us in the night ...
known four of the ancient world, — the earth, the waters, the fire, and the air; and the living powers of them are Demeter, the Latin Ceres ; Poseidon, the Latin Neptune ; Apollo, who has retained always his Greek name ; and Athena, the Latin Minerva. Each of these are descended from, or changed from...
four winds of which Athena is the natural queen, the name of ' ' Cardinal " virtues : namely, Prudence (the right seeing, and foreseeing, of events througji darkness) ; Justice (the righteous bestowal of favor and of indignation) ; Fortitude (patience under trial by pain) ; and Temperance (patience under ...
ance, she is the queen of maidenhood — stainless as the air of heaven. 1 6. But all these virtues mass themselves in the Greek mind into the two main ones, — of Justice, or noble passion, and Fortitude, or noble patience ; and of these, the chief powers of Athena, the Greeks had divinely written fo...
them, it shall be partly with a general acceptance of their influence, so constant and subtle that you shall be no more conscious of it than of the healthy di- gestion of food ; and partly by a gift of unexpected truth, which you shall only find by slow mining for it, — which is withheld on purpose, ...
group of men, and can only be interpreted by those of their race, who themselves in some measure also see visions and dream dreams. So that you may obtain a more truthful idea of the nature of Greek religion and legend from the poems of Keats, and the nearly as beautiful, and, in general grasp of su...
seeing his reflection in Dante, as you may trace new forms and softer colors in a hill-side, redoubled by a lake. I shall be able partly to show you, even to-night, how much, in the Homeric vision of Athena, has bsen made clearer by the advance of time, being thus essentially and eternally true ; but ...
towering cloud lighted by the sun, here truly de- scribed as a floating island. Secondly, you hear that all treasures were laid up in them ; therefore, you know this ^Eolus is lord of the beneficent winds ( " he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries ") ; and presently afterwards Homer calls him the «...
Boreas and Oreithyia,1 and the breeze and shade of the Ilissus — notwithstanding its severe reflection upon persons who waste their time on mythological studies ; but I must go on at once to the fable with which you are all generally familiar, that of the Harpies. This is always connected with that of ...
of some sickening famine and thirst of heart, — and you will know what was in the sound of the Harpy Celaeno's shriek from her rock ; and why, in the seventh circle of the " Inferno,11 the Harpies make their nests in the warped branches of the trees that are the souls of suicides. 22. Now you must ...
the light ; and in some sort he represents the vorac- ity or devouring of Hades itself; and the mediaeval representation of the mouth of hell perpetuates the same thought. Then, also, the power of evil pas- sion is partly associated with the red and scorching light of Sirius, as opposed to the pure ligh...
despair, just before the return of Ulysses, and prays bitterly that she may be snatched away at once into nothingness by the Harpies, like Pandareos' daugh- ters, rather than be tormented longer by her deferred hope, and anguish of disappointed love. 25. I have hitherto spoken only of deities of the winds...
of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?" "The sweet influences of Pleiades," of the stars of spring, — nowhere sweeter than among the pine-clad slopes of the hills of Sparta and Arcadia, when the snows of their higher summits, beneath the sunshine of April, fell into fountains, and rose into clouds ; ...
epithet, and thus the gentle and serviceable Hermes is opposed to the deceitful one. 28. In connection with this driving of Priam's chariot, remember that as Autolycus is the son of Hermes the Deceiver, Myrtilus (the Auriga of the Stars) is the son of Hermes the Guide. The name Hermes itself means impul...
the position of Corinth as ruling the isthmus and the two seas — the Corinthean Acropolis, two thousand feet high, being the centre of the crossing currents of the winds, and of the commerce of Greece. Therefore, Athena, and the fountain-cloud Pegasus, are more closely connected with Corinth than even wit...
peace, and wrath of heaven. Let me now try to give you, however briefly, some distinct idea of the several agencies of this great goddess. 31. I . She is the air giving life and health to all animals. II. She is the air giving vegetative power to the earth. III. She is the air giving motion ...
"That none might draw short breath to-day But I and Harry Monmouth." Again, of Hamlet, before he receives his wound : " He's fat, and scant of breath."
" Yes ; I beseech your grace I am not yet well breathed." Now, of all people that ever lived, the Greeks knew best what breath meant, both in exercise and in battle, and therefore the queen of the air becomes to them at ones the queen of bodily strength in war ; not mere brutal muscular strength, — ...
35. Now, this simile of Homer's is one of the best instances I can give you of the way in which great writers seize truths unconsciously which are for all time. It is only recent science which has com- pletely shown the perfectness of this minute symbol of the power of Athena; proving that the insect...
" Pallas opposed her hand, and caused to glance, Far from the car, the strong immortal lance."
slips, the trees from which the oil was to be taken were called «« Moriai," trees of division (being all descendants of the sacred one in the Erechtheum). And thus, in one direction, we get to the " children like olive plants round about thy table " and the olive grafting of St. Paul ; while the us...
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