File:Golden porch - a book of Greek fairy tales (1914) (14775628823).jpg

Identifier: goldenporchbooko00hutc (find matches)
Title: Golden porch : a book of Greek fairy tales
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hutchinson, W. M. L. (Winifred Margaret Lambart), b. 1868
Subjects: Fairy tales -- Greece
Publisher: New York : Longmans, Green and Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
and told the vision, and then joyfullyhe hastened to the mountain with the charm.Pegasus stood still as though enchanted while heslipped it over his head and between his teeth,and from that moment the Kings son could guidehim at will. Thus, ever after, Corinth hadrenown as the place where the First Horse wastamed by help of the First Bit and Bridle.And two memorials of the wonder remained thereto later ages, even the Fountain Pirene, whichPegasus made to flow from the hillside, and thatgolden gift of Athena, which Bellerophon, as shebade him, dedicated in her temple. Now Bellerophon rode his winged steed far andwide over land and sea, wherever he heard ofmonsters to be slain, or wicked kings to be over-thrown, and he ridded the earth of many such,shooting his arrows upon them from the bosomof the air. But at last, in the pride of his heart, he boastedthat he would mount up to Heaven and enter theabode of the gods, and so he came to no goodend. For Zeus caused a gadfly to sting Pegasus
Text Appearing After Image:
THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTQR,TILDENC THE FIRST HORSE 275 as he soared upward, and his sudden plungethrew Bellerophon from his back. No mortaleye saw rider or horse again, and of the rashprinces fate those who were wisest spoke theleast, but of Pegasus it was told that he restedthenceforth in those shining stalls where the horsesof the gods feed from golden mangers. THE BUILDERS OF TROY CHAPTER I )SEIDON and Apollo, who were ever fastA friends, once took such displeasure at KingZeus that they plotted to drive him from histhrone. But he was ware of it, and armed him-self with his flaming thunderbolts, wherewith todash the rebels down from the battlements of thesky into the Lake of Darkness under the earth.And this he would have done, had not the gentleLeto, Apollos mother, stayed his uplifted arm,and entreated him to spare her child. ThenZeus, for love of that fair, gracious goddess, saidhe would not cast Poseidon and Apollo into thegloomy Under World, but they must atone fortheir f

Note About Images