Nearly all those Argentine lands which to-day bring fabulousprices were referred to, at an earlier period, as "lands good for nothing.
Others grant the immortality thereof, but they make many fabulous fictions in the meantime of it, after the departure from the body: like Plato's Elysian fields, and that Turkey paradise.
And this belike is that which our fabulous poets have shadowed unto us in the tale of [833] Pandora's box, which being opened through her curiosity, filled the world full of all manner of diseases.
Leon Hebreus gives many fabulous reasons, and moraliseth them withal.
Everything as regards scenery and orchestra is done to help that resemblance; the singers are not a bit better or worse than everywhere else; so I shall find out what can be done by the best intentions and a fabulous faith in me.
Now that my demand has been granted, it almost appears fabulous to me that they should publish the full score of an opera which has only been given at Weimar.
The door opened again, and the man reappeared, carrying in his hands the fabulous doll to which we have alluded, and which all the village children had been contemplating since the morning.
I speak of him whose romantic victory has given to the Jacinto[11] that immortality in grave and serious history which the diskos of Apollo had given to it in the fabulous pages of the heathen mythology.
Franklin, his imputed continuator in this particular, though not yet the rival of his master in fabulous reputation, yet had a large sprinkling of practical sense; and never wrote or spoke without a point and an application.
Would that, so far as it is concerned, the minds of the whole existing generation should be dipped in the fabulous and oblivious waters of the river Lethe.
We have seen an empire in our own day, of almost fabulous grandeur and magnificence, carrying on all its vast undertakings upon a currency of gold and silver, without deigning to recognize paper for money.
The royal family were traced in a direct line to the fabulous Brutus, a thousand years before the Christian era; the Cecils pretended to be of Roman origin, and the house of Vaux deduced themselves from the kings of the Visigoths.
The fabulous history of the science might be fairly deduced to the eleventh century, as the Saxon monarchs up to that date are all represented to have borne arms.
His zeal for antiquity, like that of his contemporaries, outruns historical truth, as a proof of which it may be mentioned that he deduces the origin of knighthood from the fabulous Round Table of King Arthur.
The fabulous account of the tressure is that it was given by Charlemagne to Achaius, king of Scotland in the year 792, in token of alliance and friendship.
The allerion is a fabulousbird without either beak or legs, described by some writers as very small, like a martlet, while others give him the size of an eagle.
Full board, a fabulous salary--I was beside myself.
My learning seemed to be asfabulous to the professors.
In order to prove to her Oldenburg's worthlessness--of which I had heard on all sides fabulous accounts--I pretended to let him fall in love with myself.
Look well to your fabulous riches, for they are threatened; look well to your stately and magnificent palace, for already the element that shall devour it is noiselessly and stealthily at work!
Then came tales from a mining district still farther west, of fabulous fortunes made in a month, a week, sometimes a day.
After reviewing these theories and beliefs in detail, he takes up his Inquiry Respecting the Fabulous Animals of the Ancients.
The fabulous riches of which they had heard tell amounted, at best, to a few thousands of pounds: what folly to depart with so little, when mother earth still teemed!
Mrs. Berry received this item without signal amazement; it was evident that she was prepared to credit any vagaries to the possessors of Pompey Hollidew's fabulous legacy.
Of the shrines, the winged shrine[424] is to be placed among fabulous stories.
In other histories the fabulous and the historical parts are kept distinct.
Now what can be more fabulous than Apollo discharging his arrows, chastising Tityi and Pythons, his journey from Athens to Delphi, and his travels over the whole country?
Although we are not fond of fabulous stories, yet we have expatiated upon these, because they belong to subjects of a theological nature.
If he did not consider these as fables, why did he call the fabulous Themis a woman, and the fabulous dragon a man, unless he intended to confound the provinces of history and fable.
It is not easy therefore to solve these enigmas exactly, but if we lay before the reader a multitude of fabulous tales, some consistent with each other, others which are contradictory, we [CAS.
We have said before that the fabulous stories about its sources are the inventions of poets; it is a fiction also that Argos is without water-- “but the gods made Argos a land without water.
To this is opposed a fabulous tale, that it was not on account of the horses but of the reward for the delivery of Hesione from the sea-monster.
I regret that thisfabulous Picayune article, emanating in New Orleans, was ever written on account of Gen.
Had Apollodorus, the architect, left a description of his own work, the fabulous wonders of Dion Cassius (l lxviii.
Footnote 48: Among the fabulous exploits of Buccelin, he discomfited and slew Belisarius, subdued Italy and Sicily, &c.
The real or fabulous embassy of the Romans to Alexander (A.
The strong rooms consist of cloistered vaults, wherein the noblemen and rich commoners who bank in the house deposit patents, title-deeds, and plate of fabulous value.
Its gridiron and other treasures were sold by auction, and fetched fabulous prices.
His armies had crossed the Gobi, and smelt out unending possibilities in the fabulous west; they had opened up the fabulous south, the abode of Romance and genii and dragons.
On such a scale they lived; and travelers and mercenaries brought home news of it to Greece; and Greeks whose wealth might befabulous strove to emulate the splendor they heard of.
I pass over other fabulous stones; Pantarbe, about which Philostratus writes that it draws other stones to itself; Amphitane also, which attracts gold.
What sort of religion is that which can hoard jewels of fabulous value, together with plate of gold and silver, in its churches, while the poor, crippled, naked multitude starve outside of its towering and gilded walls?
There are a few huts in which the poor peasants reside, who labor on the soil, and send fabulousnumbers of watermelons to Valletta.
During this time the famous mines of Pastrana, El Carmen, Arbitrios, and San Antonio were discovered, and yielded the fabulousreturns which have been variously estimated at from sixty million to eighty million dollars.
Dubois' estimate of just a quarter of a century ago to bring it up to the present date, all of the new mines being in the Sierra Madres, where not one in a hundred can be worked unless of fabulous richness.
This company owns nearly all the famous old mines in this district which, in the times of the Spaniards, yielded those fabulous bonanzas that caused the astonishment of the world.
For years she had represented to him a certainfabulous reward.
The half of Iceland Tells fabulous legends of a fabulous thing, Yet never saw it: I know they never saw it, For ere it reached the ambry I came on it Tumbled in the loft with ragged kirtles.
She had a wild desire to make her excuses and escape from Fennellcourt, but Bob had disappeared, and she gathered that he and Bert were playing off some fabulous wager in the billiard-room.
A visiting prince had offered him a fabulous price for the remaining bottles, but he had refused.
One young man had discovered a way to keep worms out of railroad-ties and had promptly bludgeoned the railroad companies out of fabulous royalties.
It is no idlefabulous tale, nor is it fayned newes, 40.
In 1512 Juan Ponce de Leon received a grant to discover and settle this fabulous island.
The Spaniards were not the only people who searched in vain forfabulous cities.
