Excerpts from the Book 'The Heroes':

... day by day. So these Greeks grew wise and powerful, and wrote poems which will live till the world's end, which you must read for yourselves some ...
... was jarring and grinding, and the air was full of sound. She looked up, and over her head were mighty cliffs, all red in the setting sun, and around her ...
... with bitter venom and her eyes became so terrible that whosoever looks on them is turned to stone and her children are the winged horse and the giant ...
... I may go on my way and slay her.'. 'Not yet, not yet, fair boy come dance with us around the tree in the garden which knows no winter, the home of ...
... the streams among the plants cunningly with their feet, according to the wisdom of the Egyptians. But when they saw him they all stopped their work, ...
... and wept a long while for his grandfather. At last he rose, and called to all the people aloud, and said -. 'The Gods are true, and what they have ...
... and fragrant boughs: Cheiron, the ancient centaur, the wisest of all things beneath the sky. Down to the waist he was a man, but below he was ...
... -. 'You have many a danger to go through before you rule in Iolcos by the sea: many a danger and many a woe and strange troubles in strange lands, ...
... together, when an Immortal wedded mortal man. And now let me see my son for it is not often I shall see him upon earth: famous he will be, but short-lived, ...
... had a rich carpet, and to Orpheus for his song a sandal with golden wings. But Jason himself was the best of all the archers, and the Minuai crowned ...
... and anoint your shield with it, and neither fire nor sword can harm you. But what you begin you must end before sunset, for its virtue lasts only one ...
... up the bank, and found Medeia and beside came Absyrtus her young brother, leading a yearling lamb. Then Medeia brought them to a thicket beside the ...
... their spell.'. And as Orpheus sang, they dashed their oars into the sea, and kept time to his music, as they fled fast away and the Sirens' voices ...
... some weaving at the loom, while their hands twinkled as they passed the shuttle, like quivering aspen leaves. And outside before the palace a great ...
... him by his name. And the old man stretched his hands out, and felt him, and said, 'Do not mock me, young hero. My son Jason is dead long ago at sea.'. 'I ...
... taming horses, and hunting the boar and the bull, and coursing goats and deer among the rocks till upon all the mountains there was no hunter so swift ...
... weary, and eat and drink before thou die.'. Then Theseus went up boldly, and sat down before Kerkuon at the board and he ate his fill of the sheep's ...
... but he was ashamed to seem churlish to so hospitable a man and he was curious to see that wondrous bed and beside, he was hungry and weary: ...
... but I will go to him, and know the truth.' So he went to his father, and asked him but he turned away his head and wept, and said, 'Blood was shed ...
... Kingsley : Hereward The Last Of The EnglishCharles Kingsley (12 June 1819 - 23 January 1875) was an English clergyman, university professor, ...