Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Footnote 437: Philhellene. Friend of Greece.]
[Footnote 438: As Heaven and Earth are fairer far, etc. This passage is quoted from Book II. of Keats' _Hyperion_.] [Footnote 439: Waverley. The Waverley novels, a name applied to all of Scott's novels from _Waverley_, the title of the first one.] [Footnote 440: Robin Hood. An English outlaw and popular hero, the subject of many ballads.] [Footnote 441: Minerva. In Roman mythology, the goddess of wisdom corresponding to the Greek Pallas-Athene.] [Footnote 442: Juno. In Roman mythology, the wife of the supreme god Jupiter.] [Footnote 443: Polymnia. In Greek mythology, one of the nine muses who presided over sacred poetry; the name is more usually written Polyhymia.] [Footnote 444: Delphic Sibyl. In ancient mythology, the Sibyls were certain women who possessed the power of prophecy. One of these who made her abode at Delphi in Greece was called the Delphian, or Delphic, sibyl.] [Footnote 445: Hafiz. A Persian poet of the fourteenth century.] [Footnote 446: Firdousi. A Persian poet of the tenth century.] |
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