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On that day all the gods looked down from heaven upon the ship and the might of the heroes, half-divine, the bravest of men then sailing the sea; and on the topmost heights the nymphs of Pelion wondered as they beheld the work of Itonian Athena, and the heroes themselves wielding the oars.
They were said to be of half-divine and half-human nature, and sometimes appeared in the guise of mortals. Or was Selene dead and was the white figure her wandering shade?
The stranger came nearer; there was something half-diabolical, half-divine in the smile that he gave Helene. "Angel of pity, you that do not shrink in horror from a murderer, come, since you persist in your resolution of intrusting your life to me." "Inconceivable!" cried her father. The Marquise then looked strangely at her daughter, opened her arms, and Helene fled to her in tears.
We might tremble before him and look upon him as half-divine, but should we not long to kill him and possess his knowledge and thereby prolong our own existence to his wondrous measure? Such, said Yva, was the case with their slaves and the peoples from whence these sprang. They grew mad with jealous hate, till at length came the end we knew.
Little nations owning hardly more land than would make up an Irish barony sent out colony after colony. The seed of beautiful life they sowed grew and blossomed out into great cities and half-divine civilizations.
Not the comprehension of Time, not the nature of Death, but a revelation human form can express of the heroic dignity. Is it not more to us to know that man or woman can look half-divine, that they can wear an aspect such as we imagine belongs to the immortals, and to feel that if man is made in the image of his Creator, his Creator is the archetype of no ignoble thing?
They appeared, they passed, they disappeared, and when they had vanished Seti wept a little, for in his own fashion he loved his father. "Of what use is it to be a king and named half-divine, Ana," he said to me, "seeing that the end of such gods as these is the same as that of the beggar at the gate?"
They were said to be of half-divine and half-human nature, and sometimes appeared in the guise of mortals. Or was Selene dead and was the white figure her wandering shade?
Half-pagan, half-divine, Denby, the young cover artist, badly smitten, once put it with striking unoriginality. And with exceeding inaccuracy, too. For there are all too many who will insist that the pagan portion rather over-balanced the rest. But her sheer vitality was amazing.
I do admire," he exclaimed, swerving suddenly, "the imagination of those old Greeks, with their beautiful, half-divine personifications of the Spirits of Air and Earth and Sea! But their imagination never conceived a goddess that embodied them all!" "I have often thought, Julius," said Lefevre, "that you must be some such embodiment yourself; for you are not quite human, you know."
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