Yesyou may disapprove this flame in me, But cannot hinder what the Gods decree; Search here this truth; Alas, I cannot fear; Your Steel shall find a welcome entrance here.

ROBINSON, ALFRED B. Crucified gods galore.

"It has been plain to us for a long time that the food parcels despatched by relatives and 'god-mothers' of British prisoners in Germany were a possible source of danger, and at last it has been decided to stop them and to keep the despatch of food in the hands of official organisations.

Making a poet he mars a man; The true gods sigh,' &c."?

But to me it is impossible to call one of the blessed gods cannibal; I keep aloof; in telling ill tales is often little gain.

The festival in which the gods carouse is of a piece with the divine Ethiopian feasts of Homer.

Gods celestial and gods terrestrial transfer themselves to the service of thy son Horus, and they follow him into his hall

AE'OLUS, god of the winds, which he keeps imprisoned in a cave in the Æolian Islands, and lets free as he wishes or as the over-gods command.

It was a curious sight to the Fairies to see two of their god-daughters together, as they now did.

Thus with the gods debate began, On such a trivial cause as Man. And can celestial tempers rage? (Quoth Virgil in a later age.)

This is what he said: "Draw nearer judgment, which the gods demand of thee

Steel could the labour of the gods destroy, And strike to dust th' imperial towers of Troy; Steel could the works of mortal pride confound, And hew triumphal arches to the ground.

Gods dynes, I am an Onyon if I had not rather serve formost in the forlorne hoope of a battell or runne poynt blancke against the mouth of a double charged Cannon then come under the arrests of some their pewter pessels.

your favours and deserts so great, Though numberless, I never shall forget; No time, until myself I have forgot, Out of my heart Eliza's name shall blot: But my unwilling flight the gods enforce, And that must justify our sad divorce.

Yet did not the wisdom of the immortal gods fulfil for them such marriage, when they had heard a certain oracle.

Why are gods gods, except because they deliberately do nothing; because they understand that art and are masters of it?

But if it please God that I come into England, by Gods helpe, I will returne hither againe.

But still he is an anthropomorphic deity, a purely human conception of a personal god-king; in these lines he smiles on his daughter Venus and kisses her.

I saw her rise, and with a larger flight To pierce the cloudes, and with wide pinneons To measure the most haughtie* mountaines hight, Untill she raught** the gods owne mansions.

"Take my advice and let love-making alone, or if you must make love, do it as other gods domy messenger.

So I garlanded my brow And poured the gods drink-offering, and but now Filled thy death-stricken house with wine and song.

For these reasons Epicurus and Lucretius make their gods otiosi, unconcerned, and the Wayao, with their universal collective spirit, are no mean philosophers.

"Who were his god-parents?" "My dear Nap, what does it matter?" broke in Dot.

My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.

The warlike Mars hath not subdu'd our might, We fear'd him not, his fury nor disdain, That can the gods record, before whose sight He lay fast wrapp'd in Vulcan's subtle chain.