Tantalus gold, described by Homer, no substance, but meer illusions. When she saw herself descried, she wept, and desired Apollonius to be silent, but he would not be moved, and thereupon she, plate, house, and all that was in it, vanished in an instant:... The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms ... - Página 197por Robert Burton - 1837Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 790 páginas
...seen arid loved Lycius, illusions. When she saw herself descried, a Уои1п of Co"nth> .whom she now she wept, and desired Apollonius to be silent, but...thousands took notice of this fact, for it was done in hastens to meet in her new, angelic beauty. He sees and loves her ; and is led by her to a beautiful... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 páginas
...be a serpent, a lamia ; and that all her furniture was like Tantalus's gold, no substance, but mere illusions. When she saw herself descried, she wept...thereupon she, plate, house, and all that was in it, va' nisbed in an instant. Many thousands,' it is added, ' took no' tice of the fact, for it was done... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 páginas
...lamia ; and that all her furniture was, like Tantalus' gold, described by Homer, no substance but mere illusions. When she saw herself descried, she wept,...Apollonius to be silent, but he would not be moved, and therefore she, plate, house, and all that was. in it, vanished in an instant : many thousands took... | |
| Robert Burton - 1821 - 624 páginas
...she being fair and lovely, would live and die with him, that was fair and lovely to behold. The yong man, a philosopher, otherwise staid and discreet,...house, and all that was in it, vanished in an instant : a many thousands took notice of this fact, for it was done in the midst of Greece. Sabine, in his... | |
| Robert Burton - 1821 - 628 páginas
...guests, came Apollonius; who, by some probable conjectures, found her out to be a serpent, a bmia ; and that all her furniture was like Tantalus gold,..."many thousands took notice of this fact, for it was clone in the midst of Greece. Sabine, in his comment on the 10th of'Ovids Metamorphosis, at the tale... | |
| 1821 - 498 páginas
...her furniture was, like Tantalus's gold described by Homer, no substance, but mere illusions. Wh. n she saw herself descried, she wept, and desired Apollonius to be silent, but he would not be moved' ami thereupon she, plate, l.uusc, and all that was in it, vanished in an instant : many thousands look... | |
| Robert Burton - 1827 - 626 páginas
...imagination» vim referre connu sur, t, nihil fUciuii t. d Cantantem audies et vinum bibes, quäle antea and play, and drink such wine as never any drank,...house, and all that was in it, vanished in an instant : a many thousands took notice of this fact, for it was done in the midst of Greece. Sabine, in his... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1834 - 328 páginas
...paralleled that of Menippus Lycius, when before the eyes of the deluded votary of the enchantress, " she, plate, house, and all that was in it, vanished in an instant." It would be difficult to describe the agony produced by such complicated feelings, especially aggravated... | |
| John Gideon Millingen - 1838 - 456 páginas
...some probable conjecture, found her out to be a serpent — a lamia. When she saw herself discovered, she wept, and desired Apollonius to be silent ; but...house, and all that was in it, vanished in an instant. Florigerus also mentions the case of a young gentleman of Rome, " who on his wedding day went out walking... | |
| Robert Burton - 1838 - 766 páginas
...no substance, but meer >ns. When she saw herself descried, she wept, and desired Apollonius to Init, but he would not be moved, and thereupon she, plate, house, and Bt was in it, vanished in an instant : "many thousands took notice of this ,for it was done in the... | |
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