Tammuz, Pan and Christ: Notes on a Typical Case of Myth-transference and Development

الغلاف الأمامي
Open court publishing Company, 1912 - 1 من الصفحات
 

المحتوى

طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات

عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة

مقاطع مشهورة

الصفحة 528 - The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving: Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving: No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
الصفحة 528 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
الصفحة 460 - Hath fixed her polished car, Her sleeping Lord with handmaid lamp attending: And all about the courtly stable Bright-harnessed Angels sit in order serviceable.
الصفحة 517 - And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw...
الصفحة 515 - Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the Lord's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
الصفحة 528 - And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn In consecrated earth, And on the holy hearth, The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns, and altars round, A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seema to sweat, While each peculiar...
الصفحة 530 - Twas the hour when One in Sion Hung for love's sake on a cross, — When his brow was chill with dying, And his soul was faint with loss ; When his priestly blood dropped downward, And his kingly eyes looked throneward, — Then, Pan was dead.
الصفحة 531 - Oraculorum Defectu'), according to which, at the hour of the Saviour's agony, a cry of ( Great Pan is dead ! ' swept across the waves in the hearing of certain mariners, — and the oracles ceased.
الصفحة 527 - And methinks, my interpretation is not improper; for he may lawfully be said in the Greek tongue to be Pan, since he is our all. For all that we are, all that we live, all that we have, all that we hope, is him, by him, from him, and in him.
الصفحة 528 - The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent ; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.

معلومات المراجع