The Shakespeare Cyclopædia and New Glossary; with the Most Important Variorum Readings, Intended As a Supplement to All the Ordinary Editions of Shake
Author | : John Phin |
Publisher | : Rarebooksclub.com |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230176246 |
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ..."These words are used by Chaucer and other old authors to denote superexcellence or pre-eminence." Toone's "Glossary." Perseus. The son of Jupiter and Dana?, and grandson of Acrisius. An oracle havingtold Acrisius that he was doomed to perish by the hands of DanaU's son, he shut his daughter up in a tower of brass or stone. But Jupiter metamorphosed himself into a shower of gold, came down through the roof of the prison and became by Danae the father of Perseus. As soon as Acrisius discovered that DanaS had given birth to a son, he put both mother and son into a chest and threw them into the sea. Jupiter, however, caused the chest to float to the island of Seriphos, one of the Cyclades. where Dictys, a fisherman, found them and carried them to Polydectes, the king of the country. They were treated with kindness, but Polydectes fell in love with DanalS, and not being able to gratify his passion in consequence of the presence of Perseus, who, meantime, had grown up to manhood, he sent Perseus on an expedition to fetch the head of Medusa, one of the Gorgons. Guided by Mercury and Minerva, Perseus first went to the Graeae, the sisters of the Gorgons, took from them their one tooth, and their one eye, and would not restore them until they showed him the way to the nymphs who possessed the winged sandals, the magic walletand the helmet of Pluto, which rendered the wearer invisible. He also received from Mercury a sickle, and from Minerva a mirror, and with these he mounted into the air and arrived at the Gorgons, who dwelt near Tartessus, on the coast of the ocean, and whose heads were covered like those of serpents, with scales, and who had large tusks like boars, brazen hainls and golden wings. He found them asleep and cut...