A Dissertation on the Mysteries of the Cabiri; Or The Great Gods of Phenicia, Samothrace, Egypt, Troas, Greece, Italy, and Crete;: Being an Attempt to Deduce the Several Orgies of Isis, Ceres, Mithras, Bacchus, Rhea, Adonis, and Hecate, from an Union of the Rites Commemorative of the Deluge with the Adoration of the Hosts of Heaven, כרך 2

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At the University Press for the author: and sold by F. and C. Rivington, London; and W. Hanwell and J. Parker, Oxford., 1803 - 428 עמודים
 

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עמוד 421 - Unto these sprites to bring to perfect end ; During which work the Lady of the Lake, Whom long he loved, for him in haste did send, Who thereby forced his workmen to forsake, Them bound till his return their labour not to slake.
עמוד 420 - Whenso he counseld, with his sprites encompast round. And if thou ever happen that same way To travel, go to see that dreadful place : It is an hideous hollow cave (they say) Under a rock that lies a little space From the swift Barry...
עמוד 114 - And take the ark of the Lord, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
עמוד 402 - Then, swift ascending from the azure wave, He took the path that winded to the cave. Large was the grot, in which the nymph he found (The...
עמוד 403 - While she with work and song the time divides, And through the loom the golden shuttle guides.
עמוד 254 - Among the heathen of their purchase got, And fabled how the serpent, whom they call'd Ophion with Eurynome, the wide...
עמוד 403 - With purple clusters blushing through the green. Four limpid fountains from the clefts distil, And every fountain pours a several rill, In mazy windings wandering down the hill: Where bloomy meads with vivid greens were crown'd, And glowing violets threw odours round. A scene, where, if a god should cast his sight, A god might gaze, and wander with delight!
עמוד 33 - And nurs'd his youth along the marshy shore, Where great Diana's peaceful altars flame, In fruitful fields; and Virbius was his name. Hippolytus, as old records have said, Was by his...
עמוד 166 - Celtae, were first known. I question, whether there be in the world a monument, which is much prior to the celebrated Stone-Henge. There is reason to think, that it was erected by a foreign colony; one of the first, which came into the island.
עמוד 48 - Thrice happy you, whofe walls already rife ; 610 ./Eneas faid ; and view'd, with lifted eyes, Their lofty towers : then entering at the gate, Conceal'd in clouds (prodigious to relate), He mix'd, unmark'd, among the bufy throng, Borne by the tide, and pafs'd unfeen along.

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