Bulfinch's Mythology Quotes

“Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology

“So near the track of the stars are we,
That oft, on night's pale beams,
The distant sounds of their harmony
Come to our ears, like dreams.

The Moon, too, brings her world so nigh,
That when the night-seer looks
To that shadowless orb, in a vernal sky,
He can number its hills and brooks.

To the Sun god all our hearts and lyres,
By day, by night, belong;
And the breath we draw from his living fires
We give him back in song,”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology

“I come from a land in the sun-bright deep,         Where golden gardens glow,      Where the winds of the north, becalmed in sleep,         Their conch shells never blow.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch’s Mythology

“and since here we have passed our lives in love and concord, we wish that one and the same hour may take us both from life, that I may not live to see her grave, nor be laid in my own by her.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology

“There is another deity who is described as the calumniator of the gods and the contriver of all fraud and mischief. His name is Loki. He is handsome and well made, but of a very fickle mood and most evil disposition. He is of the giant race, but forced himself into the company of the gods, and seems to take pleasure in bringing them into difficulties, and in extricating them out of the danger by his cunning, wit, and skill.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable

“Then he struck her with a magic wand, and she was changed back into a young woman, the fairest ever seen.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“a ship without ballast is tossed hither and thither on the sea, so the chariot, without its accustomed weight, was dashed about as if empty. They”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology

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― Getulio Delphim, Bulfinch's Mythology

“Then, for the first time, the Great and Little Bear were scorched with heat, and would fain, if it were possible, have plunged into the water; and the Serpent which lies coiled up round the north pole, torpid and harmless, grew warm, and with warmth felt its rage revive.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology

“the boundless plain of the universe lies open before them. They dart forward and cleave the opposing clouds, and outrun the morning breezes which started from the same eastern goal.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology

“CALLISTO”
― Thomas Bulfinch, The Age of Fable

“The Emperor was unreasonably partial to his eldest son; he would have been glad to have had the barons and peers demand Charlot for their only sovereign; but that prince was so infamous, for his falsehood and cruelty, that the council strenuously opposed the Emperor’s proposal of abdicating, and implored him to continue to hold a sceptre which he wielded with so much glory.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“You may make as many fair speeches as you choose, but you lie.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“Brunello the dwarf, the subtlest thief in all Africa,”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“he contended only for glory, and was contented to leave him the lady.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“yield the lady, or prepare to maintain his right by arms.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“Thus,” said she, “shall be treated the deceiver, the traitor, the faithless, the disgraced, and the beardless.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“There was, however, one drawback to his happy lot: he was not permitted to live beyond a certain period, and if, when he had attained the age of twenty-five years, he still survived, the priests drowned him in the sacred cistern and then buried him in the temple of Serapis.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“The laws of war at that early day did not forbid a brave man to slay a sleeping foe,”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“libations of milk and wine.”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology: All Volumes

“(wonderful to relate)”
― Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch's Mythology