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It was interesting only because it connected with the legendary Martian race, like the canals that showed from space but could not be seen on the surface of the planet. Feldman waited for the other to go on, but Jake was silent. Finally, he ground out the butt of the weed. "Okay, Jake. What do you want with me?" "Consultation, maybe. Ever hear of herb doctors? I'm one of them."
"It seems to me, undoubtedly," said Redclyffe, stooping to examine it more closely, "a good thing to make a legend out of; and, like most legendary lore, not capable of bearing close examination. I should decidedly say that the Bloody Footstep is a natural reddish stain in the stone." "Do you think so, indeed?" rejoined his Lordship.
That's what she's come for. Now she's got it." She gave the slightest, dubious nod to Molder, who, having faced fighting Turks with an equanimity equal to Queenie's own, was yet considerably flurried by the presence and the gaze of this legendary girl.
Let the dreams of classic idolatry perish, extinct be the fairies and fairy trumpery of legendary fabling, in the heart of childhood, there will, for ever, spring up a well of innocent or wholesome superstition the seeds of exaggeration will be busy there, and vital from every-day forms educing the unknown and the uncommon.
Of Arnold's narrative poems the two best known are Balder Dead , an incursion into the field of Norse mythology which is suggestive of Gray, and Sohrab and Rustum , which takes us into the field of legendary Persian history. Briefly, the story is of one Rustem or Rustum, a Persian Achilles, who fell asleep one day when he had grown weary of hunting.
'Pray, sir, is there any song current in this part of the world respecting a daughter of the King of the Isle of Man eloping with a Scottish knight? 'I am the worst person in the world to consult upon legendary antiquities, answered Glossin. 'I could sing such a ballad, said Bertram, 'from one end to another when I was a boy.
As for the unhappy Jason, the story goes that he fell asleep under the ship Argo, which had been hauled ashore according to the custom of the ancients, and that a fragment of this ship fell upon and killed him. The flight of Medea took her to Athens, where she found a protector and second husband in Ægeus, the ruler of that city, and father of Theseus, the great legendary hero of Athens.
For the same reason, the small hill near Mount Moriah, the search of the twelve Fellow Crafts, and the whole train of circumstances connected with the lost word, are to be viewed simply as mythical or legendary, and not as material symbols. These legends of Freemasonry constitute a considerable and a very important part of its ritual.
They pretend to trace this fatality to a legendary history, which I may tell you at a less busy moment. Darsie intimated that he had already heard the tragic story of Sir Alberick Redgauntlet. 'I need only say, then, proceeded Lilias, 'that our father and uncle felt the family doom in its full extent.
The Aesculapius story was fitted out by them merely with a few miraculous details, a few legendary ornaments, but the story of Dis and Proserpina was so covered with their fabrications that it has only recently been freed from them and seen in its true light, and certain phases were so absolutely perverted that there are still a number of very difficult points.
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