Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
VICISSITUDES OF SICILIAN GOVERNMENT.--GLANCES AT PHALARIS, STESICHORUS, EMPEDOCLES, HIERO I., SIMONIDES, EPICHARMUS, DIONYSIUS I., DAMON AND PYTHIAS, DAMOCLES, DIONYSIUS II., DION, PLATO, AGATHOCLES, HANNIBAL, HIERO II., THEOCRITUS, ARCHIMEDES, MARCELLUS, VERRES; AND PARTICULA...
DANTE’S EVENING.--AVE MARIA OF BYRON.--THE SICILIAN VESPERS.--NOTHING “INFERNAL” IN NATURE.--SICILIAN MARINER’S HYMN.--INVOCATION FROM COLERIDGE.--PAGAN AND ROMAN CATHOLIC WORSH...
12. CHAPTER XII. MISCELLANEOUS FEELINGS RESPECTING SICILY, ITS MUSIC,DANTE’S EVENING.--AVE MARIA OF BYRON.--THE SICILIAN VESPERS.-- NOTHING “INFERNAL” IN NATURE.--SICILIAN MARINER’S HYMN.-- INVOCATION FROM COLERIDGE.--PAGAN AND ROMAN CATHOLIC WOR...
14. CHAPTER II.As it is good to have a plan and system in everything, whatever may be the miscellaneousness of its nature, we shall treat of our subjects in chronological order, beginning with...
19. CHAPTER VIIThe best pastoral is often written when the author least intends it. A completer feeling of the country and of a shepherd’s life is given us in a single passage of the _Jerusale...
22. CHAPTER X.In now emphatically returning to Sicily, though we have never been entirely absent from it, while discussing the pastoral poets of other countries, we shall round our subject pr...
17. CHAPTER V.SPECIMENS OF THE PATHOS AND PASTORAL OF THEOCRITUS.--THE CYCLOPS IN LOVE.--POETICAL FEELING AMONG UNEDUCATED CLASSES IN THE SOUTH.--PASSAGES FROM THEOCRITUS’S FIRST IDYLL.--HIS...
16. CHAPTER IV.Pastoral poetry is supposed to have originated in Sicily, at one and the same time with comedy. At all events, it was perfected there. Comedy is understood to have been suggeste...
18. CHAPTER VI.In the glance at the ancient history of Sicily in our third chapter, we have seen that the Greek and Roman sway was succeeded by that of the Saracens. They were masters of the i...
21. CHAPTER IX.The only undramatic pastorals in the language worth mention are those of Browne, a young poet, who wrote in the beginning of the reign of James the First. He won the praises of...
20. CHAPTER VIII.The title and story of the _Sad Shepherd_ of Ben Jonson, in combination with those of the _Faithful Shepherd_ (_Pastor Fido_) of Guarini, appear to have suggested to Fletcher hi...
23. CHAPTER XI.THE BEAUTIFUL NEVER TO BE THANKED TOO MUCH, OR TO BE SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSED.--BEES AND THEIR ELEGANCE.--THEIR ADVICE TO AN ITALIAN POET.--WAXEN TAPERS.--A BEE DRAMA.--MASSACRES...
15. CHAPTER III.VICISSITUDES OF SICILIAN GOVERNMENT.--GLANCES AT PHALARIS, STESICHORUS, EMPEDOCLES, HIERO I., SIMONIDES, EPICHARMUS, DIONYSIUS I., DAMON AND PYTHIAS, DAMOCLES, DIONYSIUS II., DI...
13. CHAPTER I.Passing one day by the shop of Messrs. Fortnum and Mason in Piccadilly, we beheld in the window a little blue jar, labelled, “Sicilian Honey.”--It was a jar of very humble prete...
3. CHAPTER III. GLANCES AT ANCIENT SICILIAN HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.VICISSITUDES OF SICILIAN GOVERNMENT.--GLANCES AT PHALARIS, STESICHORUS, EMPEDOCLES, HIERO I., SIMONIDES, EPICHARMUS, DIONYSIUS I., DAMON AND PYTHIAS, DAMOCLES, DIONYSIUS II., DI...
5. CHAPTER V. THEOCRITUS.--(CONCLUDED.)SPECIMENS OF THE PATHOS AND PASTORAL OF THEOCRITUS.--THE CYCLOPS IN LOVE.--POETICAL FEELING AMONG UNEDUCATED CLASSES IN THE SOUTH.--PASSAGES FROM THEOCRITUS’S FIRST IDYLL.--HIS...
11. CHAPTER XI. BEES.THE BEAUTIFUL NEVER TO BE THANKED TOO MUCH, OR TO BE SUFFICIENTLY EXPRESSED.--BEES AND THEIR ELEGANCE.--THEIR ADVICE TO AN ITALIAN POET.--WAXEN TAPERS.--A BEE DRAMA.--MASSACRES...
7. CHAPTER VII. ITALIAN AND ENGLISH PASTORAL.2. CHAPTER II. SICILY, AND ITS MYTHOLOGY.4. CHAPTER IV. THEOCRITUS.6. CHAPTER VI. NORMAN TIMES--LEGEND OF KING ROBERT.1. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.8. CHAPTER VIII. ENGLISH PASTORAL--(CONTINUED); AND SCOTCH PASTORAL.10. CHAPTER X. RETURN TO SICILY AND MOUNT ÆTNA.9. CHAPTER IX. ENGLISH PASTORAL.--(CONCLUDED.)