How To Use Phoebus In A Sentence
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[46] "He calls Phoebus the god of gold, since the virtue of his beams creates it.
The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
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The small swarthy beetle of a king, as he appears in Carle Vanloo's portrait at Versailles (not at all like Boucher's Phoebus), was insatiate.
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Classical Latin poets also used Phoebus as a byname for the sun-god, whence come common references in later European poetry to Phoebus and his car("chariot") as a metaphor for the sun.
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I have one called Phoebus, because he drives a chariot drawn by six rats.
Simon the Jester
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O pastoral pipes, no longer sing of Daphnis on the mountains, to pleasure Pan the lord of the goats; neither do you, O lyre interpretess of Phoebus, any more chant Hyacinthus chapleted with maiden laurel; for time was when Daphnis was delightful to the mountain-nymphs, and Hyacinthus to thee; but now let Dion hold the sceptre of Desire.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
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They say the Hellenes 'gathered host will come in arms aboard their ships to Simois with its silver eddies, even to Ilium, the plain of Troy beloved by Phoebus; where famed Cassandra, I am told, whene'er the god's resistless prophecies inspire her, wildly tosses her golden tresses, wreathed with crown of verdant bay.
Iphigenia at Aulis
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And at every turn, driving Glyver irresistibly onward, is his deadly rival: the poet-criminal Phoebus Rainsford Daunt.
The Meaning of Night: Summary and book reviews of The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox.
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He has also much fertility in epithets; these being fitted to their objects properly and naturally have the force of proper names, as when he gives to the several gods each some proper designation, so he calls Zeus the “all-wise and high thundering,” and the Sun, Hyperion, “advancing aloft,” and Apollo, Phoebus, that is, shining.
Essays and Miscellanies
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There is already an organization, a human one, known as "Phoebus," the international light-bulb cartel, headquartered in Switzerland.
Gravity's Rainbow
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They say the Hellenes 'gathered host will come in arms aboard their ships to Simois with its silver eddies, even to Ilium, the plain of Troy beloved by Phoebus; where famed Cassandra, I am told, whene'er the god's resistless prophecies inspire her, wildly tosses her golden tresses, wreathed with crown of verdant bay.
Iphigenia at Aulis
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Phoebus > (Who each day drives his chariot across the sky) 9 In western waves his weary wagon did recure. recure > restore, refresh
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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Thus Phoebus; and mingled outcries of great gladness uprose; all ask, what is that city? whither calls Phoebus our wandering, and bids us return?
The Aeneid of Virgil
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_Phoebus_ -- The Apollo of the Romans; the Sun. _Phoebus Apollo_ -- Phoebus the Destroyer, or the Purifier.
Philothea A Grecian Romance
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But as yet the water of Castaly is waiting for me to bedew the maiden glory of my tresses for the service of Phoebus.
The Phoenissae
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On the day of their wedding, he confesses, he will think that either 'Phoebus' steeds are foundered/Or Night kept chained below '.
Shakespeare
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That the "Phoebus" is hackneyed, and a school-boy image, is an accidental fault, dependent on the age in which the author wrote, and not deduced from the nature of the thing.
Biographia Literaria
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We were even shown a bloom called the Phoebus, about as like to our
The Lost Dahlia
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When Phoebus lived on this earth, he was a lusty bachelor and a fine archer, slaying serpents and singing with great musical harmony.
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The rule which I have tried to follow has been this: when the word has been hopelessly Latinised, as 'Phoebus' has been, I have left it as it usually stands; but in other cases I have tried to keep the plain Greek spelling, except when it would have seemed pedantic, or when, as in the word 'Tiphus,' I should have given an altogether wrong notion of the sound of the word.
Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
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Athene, as they say, took the form of Deiphobus for the sake of Hector, and the unshorn Phoebus for the sake of Admetus fed the trailing-footed oxen, and the spouse us came as an old woman to Semele.
Is There Evidence For Mythicism?
