Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . Taye^ö. /y^^^^ e^.^l^/y/^V^^/. MORITZ MYTHOLOGY, 97 ty and cunning activity, which displayed itself alike indeceptive persuasion, and easily accompHshed sportivetheft, at which even the pilfered himself, learning theadventurous waggishness, was forced to smile. Jocularity and cumiing, being here clothed with di-vinity and immortality, present a new figure in the greatpicture of a divine assembly, fitter, upon the whole, tocharm our eyes by its variety of composition and splen-did colours, than to improve our hearts by its moralexhibitions. In th
Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . Taye^ö. /y^^^^ e^.^l^/y/^V^^/. MORITZ MYTHOLOGY, 97 ty and cunning activity, which displayed itself alike indeceptive persuasion, and easily accompHshed sportivetheft, at which even the pilfered himself, learning theadventurous waggishness, was forced to smile. Jocularity and cumiing, being here clothed with di-vinity and immortality, present a new figure in the greatpicture of a divine assembly, fitter, upon the whole, tocharm our eyes by its variety of composition and splen-did colours, than to improve our hearts by its moralexhibitions. In the human breast, the voice of an invisible super-natiural power speaks intelligibly, bidding man hft uphis eyes from earth to a higher world. The ancients,too, heard this voice, but misapprehending it, they form-ed to themselves a supernatural world, after the patternwhich nature and human life presented to them. There-fore, nothing appeared to them mean or unholy thati-ose from the general creating influence of nature, andcontained, although noxious in
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