Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular TraditionFisher Unwin, 1892 - 385 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
amulet ancient Aplu appears beautiful Befania believe Bella Marta Benevento bewitched buona fortuna burning called Carmenta casa Ceres charm child Christian church Corredoio cosi cure curious daughter declared deities devil Diana divination dream Dusio earth Etruria Etruscan evil eyes Faflon fairy Feronia fire Florence folk-lore folletto fortuna fortune Fufluns girl give goblins goddess gods grains grazia gypsy hair heathen incantation invocation Italian Italy lady Lares Larunda Lasii Latin legend light live Losna lover luck magic Magonia MARCELLUS Mater Matuta midnight mother mysterious mythology never night Nortia old woman once pass Patána peasant pig-pen possa pray PRELLER priest reader regards religion remarkable Romagna Romagnola Roman Saint Schedius sempre song sorcery soul spell spirit stone story strange strega tale Téramó thee things thou art thou shalt Tinia Turanna Tuscan voglio witch witchcraft wizard word
Pasajes populares
Página 172 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Página 34 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves, And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune and do fly him When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites, and you whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms...
Página 337 - But I have sinuous shells, of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace porch; where when unyoked His chariot wheel stands midway in the wave. Shake one, and it awakens, then apply Its polished lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Página 343 - cheap defence," like the immortal Falstaff, who was not only witty himself, but the cause of wit in others...
Página 212 - ... against railroads ; his experience in which consisted in having seen the end of one laid out, and at length the cars running upon it. Taking out his old pipe, on a pleasant summer afternoon, and looking off upon the ocean, and the ships far off and out at sea with the sun upon their sails, he said : " / don't think much o' railroads : they aint no kind o
Página 209 - Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?
Página 129 - Salanio (as the name of the character is commonly spelt) says, jesting upon Antonio's unexplainable sadness, that they might " Say you are sad, Because you are not merry ; and 'twere as easy For you to laugh, and leap, and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath formed strange fellows in her time" — ** some, in short, that will laugh, and others that will weep, without any assignable cause.
Página 345 - A young white cock was then taken, his claws cut off, and these he was forced to swallow with a little scroll of parchment made of lambskin, upon which was an inscription. The diviner, holding the cock, repeated, " O Deus Creator omnium, qui firmamentum pulchritudine stellarum formasti, constituens eas in signa et tempora, infunde virtutem tuam operibus nostris, ut per opus in eis consequamur effectum.
Página 262 - ... ipsam araneam in chartam virginem lino ligabis et collo laborantis suspendes die Jovis, sed dum prendes araneam, vel phylacterium alligas, ter in terram spues.
Página 251 - ... King Halfdan's men, he threw himself upon his sword and perished. Halfdan the Swarthy became enamored of Ragnhild, as soon as he saw her, and made her his wife. While Queen Ragnhild was with child she dreamed marvellous dreams. Once she seemed to be standing in the garden, trying to take a thorn out of her chemise, but the thorn grew in her hand until it was like a long spindle — the one end of which struck root in the earth, while the other shot up into the air. Presently it looked like a...