 | Sir Monier Monier-Williams - 1863 - Počet stránok 156
...the battles of their favourite heroes, furnishing them with celestial arms, or interposing directly to protect them. But even in the Ramayana, where Hindu...beings are generally suggestive of the monstrous, the * Herodotus says (Euterpe, 53) that " Homer and Hesiod/ramed the Greek Theogony, gave distinctive names... | |
 | 1870 - Počet stránok 614
...Greece mythology never passed certain limits, or outgrew (so to speak) a certain symmetry of form. . . But even in the Ramayana, where Hindu, mythology may...transport the imagination into the region of the wildest chimsera ; and a whole pantheon presents itself, teeming with grotesque and unwieldy symbols, with... | |
 | 1870 - Počet stránok 618
...Greece mythology never passed certain limits, or outgrew (so to speak) a certain symmetry of form. . . But even in the Ramayana, where Hindu mythology may...and semi-divine beings are generally suggestive of tho monstrous, the frightful, the hideous, and the incredible ; tho deeds of its heroes, who are themselves... | |
 | Sir Monier Monier-Williams - 1875 - Počet stránok 624
...directly to protect them. But in the Eamayana and Maha-bhiirata, and in the Puranas to which they led, the shape and operations of divine and semi-divine...generally suggestive of the monstrous, the frightful, and the incredible. The human form, however idealized, is seldom thought adequate to the expression... | |
 | 1889 - Počet stránok 854
...also much that is absurd and revolting. Sir Mouier Williams, referring to the Itiliasas, says : — "The shape and operations of divine and semi-divine...transport the imagination, into the region of the wildest chimera ; and a whole pantheon presents itself, teeming with grotesque and unwieldy symbols, with horrible... | |
 | 1898 - Počet stránok 454
...from their nature. In Greece mythology never outgrew a certain symmetry of outline. In the Ramayana the shape and operations of divine and semi-divine...incredible : the deeds of its heroes, who are themselves half -gods, transport the imagination into the region of the wildest chimaera ; and a whole pantheon... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1912 - Počet stránok 376
...and so on. "The shape and operations of divine and semi-divine beings," says Sir Monier Williams, " are generally suggestive of the monstrous, the frightful,...transport the imagination into the region of the wildest chimera; and a whole pantheon presents itself, teeming with grotesque and unwieldy symbols, with horrible... | |
 | Harold Begbie - 1912 - Počet stránok 376
...and so on. " The shape and operations of divine and semi-divine beings," says Sir Monier Williams, " are generally suggestive of the monstrous, the frightful,...transport the imagination into the region of the wildest chimera; and a whole pantheon presents itself, teeming with grotesque and unwieldy symbols, with horrible... | |
 | E. Osborn Martin - 1914 - Počet stránok 444
...unreal and fabulous have distorted and misplaced the real and true. " The shape and operations of these divine and semi-divine beings are generally suggestive...incredible ; the deeds of its heroes, who are themselves half gods, transport the imagination into the region of the wildest chimera ; and the whole pantheon... | |
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Hindu mythology may be regarded as not fully developed, the shape and operations of divine and semi-divine beings are generally suggestive of the monstrous, the frightful, the hideous, and the incredible ; the deeds of its heroes, who are themselves half-gods,... 