| 单词 | Hesperides |
| 例句 | “Yes, Pleione. She had five daughters. My sisters and I. The Hesperides.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z We ran up the mountain as the Hesperides resumed their song in the shadows behind us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Hesperides shimmered and turned into shadows. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Atlas, who bore the vault of heaven upon his shoulders, was the father of the Hesperides, so Hercules went to him and asked him to get the apples for him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was to bring back the Golden Apples of the Hesperides, and he did not know where they were to be found. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The frigate captain was on board the Hesperides when he disappeared not far from the Juan Carlos I Spanish base on Livingston Island. Spanish navy captain dies in Antarctica 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z Just a touch sweeter is Hesperides Grapefruit, the newest addition to their candle line. Luxury Candles That Look As Good As They Smell 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Like the golden apples of the Hesperides, treasure is guarded by a dragon or serpent. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z The future, which to Mary's eyes was like the garden of the Hesperides, all hanging with golden fruit, was a desert to poor Ella Brune. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z Bringing the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z Hesperides is used to conduct research into marine biodiversity and travels to the region regularly to provide supplies to Spanish bases there, reports say. Spanish navy captain dies in Antarctica 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z In 1650 a volume of Wit’s Recreations contained sixty-two small poems afterwards acknowledged by Herrick in the Hesperides, and one not reprinted until our own day. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Unfortunately, no one could tell Hercules in what part of Africa the garden of the Hesperides might be situated: so he set out at a venture, determined to travel about until he gained some information. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z According to Dupuis it represents the 12th “labour of Hercules”—his capture of the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides, which were guarded by a Dragon. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z I'm price of Hope that no more is, One of the Hesperides: Beauty's casket, doating eye Of lovers blinded wilfully: The light Spirit of Vanity. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Hesperides, hes-per′ī-dēz, n.pl. the name of the three sisters who guarded in their delightful gardens the golden apples which Hera, on her marriage with Zeus, had received from G�a. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z In 1823 the Hesperides and the Noble Numbers were for the first time edited by Mr T. Maitland, afterwards Lord Dundrennan. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z He performs great deeds, slays innumerable demons of drought and darkness on his way, and visits the enchanted land of the Hesperides,—a symbol of the western sky and clouds at sunset. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z In the Greek mythology it is supposed to represent the dragon which guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z But she wasn't, otherwise, suggestive of that; she more nearly resembled the magic glow of an apple of Hesperides. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z The Hesperides of 1648 was the only book owned by the lodging-house in Westminster where a dingy year of childhood had dragged out its course. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The Hesperides are, like the Sirens, possessed of the gift of delightful song. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z The animals were soon after delivered into the hands of Eurystheus, who then sent Hercules in search of the Golden Apples of the Hesperides. Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art 2012-03-27T02:00:24.357Z The dragon having been successfully circumvented, you enter the Hesperides, or in other words, the charming Alamedas of the Alhambra. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z When the maidens saw him they came toward him crying out: “O man who has come into the Garden of the Hesperides, go not near the tree that the sleepless dragon guards!” The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles 2011-10-31T02:00:27.780Z In the evening of the same day, there was an entertainment in the garden of the Hesperides, as they then called the garden surrounding Zwinger, now the famous picture gallery. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z The golden apples, the gift of Aphrodite to Hippomenes before his race with Atalanta, were also plucked from the garden of the Hesperides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Heracles supports on his shoulders the vault of heaven, while the Titan Atlas brings him the golden apples of the Hesperides. A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) 2011-09-30T02:00:18.107Z The Hesperides, or Western Maidens, were three celebrated nymphs, concerning whose parentage ancient writers are not agreed. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z The apple or orange of the Hesperides belonged to Juno. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z The Hesperides were as blurred as the place in the calendar. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The whole place was watched as zealously, even in summer, as the gardens of the Hesperides, but Mr. Long had obtained permission for me to roam at large therein. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z Herrick, also, has given us a verse of Bellman’s poetry in one of the charming morsels of his “Hesperides:”— A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z The Hesperides were directed to watch these trees, but they proved unfaithful, and frequently plucked the apples for themselves. The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies 2011-09-12T02:00:29.450Z I rank this labor ahead of the killing of the Hydra, or fetching the golden apples of the Hesperides. Hints to Pilgrims 2011-08-18T02:00:23.727Z We are in the neighbourhood of the Hesperides. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z But similar incidents were manifold, and her servants had to be trained to guard their mistress as if she were the golden apples of the Hesperides. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z He makes reference to the hanging gardens of Babylon; the classical gardens of the Hesperides and of Alcinous; and to the gardens and orchards, with their pools of water, of King Solomon. Addresses & Papers / Collectanea 2011-08-04T02:00:22.097Z But Timachides asserts, in the fourth book of The Banquet, that it is an apple, the same as that called the apple of the Hesperides. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Every Muse delights in it, as its mythology shows, from the gardens of the Hesperides to the orchard of Plato. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Others say it is the dragon that guarded the golden apples in the Garden of the Hesperides, and that was slain by the redoubtable Hercules. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z The golden apples of the Hesperides probably were oranges. l. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z It was a damp, fœtid, underground air, but it seemed to him that it came from the gardens of the Hesperides. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z And Pamphilus asserts that at Lacedæmon they are set before the gods; and that they have a sweet smell, but are not very good to eat; and are called the apples of the Hesperides. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z “Did this come from the Garden of Hesperides, Molly?” asked Edith Williams, always ready with her classic allusions. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge Enchantment sails through magic seas To fairyland Hesperides, Over the hills and away. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z Grasped it!—we embraced it!—we clung to its rough surface as if we had been six months at sea, and had landed in the Hesperides! The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z We have sucked the liquid air in a veritable garden of the Hesperides, and, indeed, I looked to see the three fair daughters of Hesperus along those crisp�d shades and bowers. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z At all events, Aristocrates, in the fourth book of his Affairs of Lacedæmon, says, "And besides that apples, and those which are called Hesperides." The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z Much pleased the Abbot witnessed the young folks' excellent behaviour and said: "Discipline distinguishes human beings from animals, and if you were to throw the apples of Hesperides amongst them, they would remain stedfast." Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z A fair paysage it is!" he continues, looking across the river; "a very vale of Temp�, or Garden of the Hesperides. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z The ancient Gorgades, Hesperides, and so forth have been identified with them by some, but all this remains in the state of guess-work—guess-work which has no great probability behind it. The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. II 2011-04-05T02:00:10.813Z Perhaps he had a tumble in ‘climbing trees in the Hesperides’! Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z B. I thought it came from the Hesperides; For there they say the golden apples grow. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z She looked, herself, a part of the orchard, for she wore a wreath of bright fruits and her arms were often full of apples almost as huge and golden as the famous apples of Hesperides. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z Thus is everywhere revealed the background of sheer savagery, which lies behind all human culture, while the "Golden Age" of the poets fades with the "Hesperides" and Plato's "Atlantis" into the region of the fabulous. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z They produce a tenth, a twentieth part of what would grow if the tree were left to itself, but what golden apples of Hesperides they are! Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z It is here, then, that we must look for the characteristic types of Andalusia, that favored land where the ancients placed their Elysian Fields and Garden of the Hesperides. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z They were the model of the Elysian fields, the gardens of the Hesperides, and also those of the Fortunate Islands. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He was as ancient as the mountain itself and doomed by the gods to stand there through the seasons and never go home to the garden of the Hesperides where his daughters lived. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z As we moved away from the quay, it seemed to me that our steamer was steering straight for the Hesperides. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z The Hesperides are pure Renaissance work, in natural sympathy with the Roman elegiac writings and with the Pseudo-Anacreon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Here was the retreat of the Gorgon, with snaky tresses, turning all she looked upon into stone; and here also the garden of the Hesperides, with its apples of gold. White Slavery in the Barbary States 2011-02-10T03:00:50.200Z I lacked not Love, I lacked not lovely Love, But, ah, the apples of Hesperides! Sonnets and Songs 2011-01-29T03:00:22.093Z He commanded him to bring back to Greece the golden apples of the Hesperides without telling him where they were to be found. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z Variations between different copies of the first edition of Herrick’s Hesperides which have puzzled all his editors are due to the presence of several of such cancels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z Were a new Drayton to arise he might, in a new Polyolbion, introduce the nymph complaining of her hard lot at the hands of scholars in the Hesperides. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn "Lord!" quoth I low to myself, "I am come into the garden of the Hesperides surely; yet I wist not that the Dragon was mother of them." Idonia: A Romance of Old London I would be bound in all thy masteries— Yet, ah, the apples of Hesperides! Sonnets and Songs 2011-01-29T03:00:22.093Z He gave back his load to Atlas and took the apples of the Hesperides home to Greece. Wonder Stories The Best Myths for Boys and Girls 2011-03-31T02:00:19.150Z The large number of productive orange-trees makes the place like a garden of Hesperides. The Story of Malta The groves were like gardens of the Hesperides with glittering yellow fruit for all mankind. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 Judith regarded me with one wistful glance, and then in the wake of the Dragon as she swept from the room, this last of the Hesperides departed from me for ever. Idonia: A Romance of Old London Are you the dragons that ne'er sleep, but watch The golden fruit of the Hesperides? A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 "As the choice lies open to me: rather no music, no pictures, not even laurel hedges and gardens of the Hesperides, than any return to the old pool of sulphur." Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle "Somebody said the Hesperides didn't look nice from the front." Carnival Although many were aware of its excesses, they saw that, despite every regulation, the hornet was in possession of Hesperides, prepared to sting the hand that reached for the golden fruit. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar Such were the sacred snakes in the temples of Aesculapius and the sacri dracontes in that of the Bona Dea at Rome; or, as guardians, the Python at Delphi and the dragon of the Hesperides. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" The apparent course of the sun seemed an invitation, and ever-flying hope showed, in the splendour of its setting, the glories of the Hesperides. The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde The Dragon which guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides, and the ship Argo complete the number of the constellations mentioned by Camo�ns. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem There he was reared by the lily maidens called Hesperides, till he came to his full strength, and commanded the whole army of the Aethiopes. Tales of Troy and Greece "This must be the garden of Hesperides that our poets write of," I replied. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The general character of these may be illustrated by the Greek story which explains the constellation as being the dragon of the Hesperides slain by Heracles and translated by Hera or Zeus to the heavens. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" To the Greek, it has been said, the natural apple was not the wild one from which our cultivated apple has been grown, but rather the golden apple of the Hesperides. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law He went to London then and published "Hesperides," a book of verses. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 League on league happy homes are all but hidden by dark-leaved trees, with fruit yellow as the golden apples of the Hesperides. The Vision of Elijah Berl I. Wafted o'er purple seas, From gold Hesperides, Mixed with the southern breeze, Hail to us spirits! Blooms of the Berry Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairyland Hesperides, Over the hills and away. Undertones The Hesperides congratulated them upon the new accession, and prayed that their garden might be protected. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. The dragon Ladon was not able to defend the apples of Hesperides against Hercules. Minor Poems by Milton Hercules, I fancy, must have overcome with a golden sword the dragon that watched the gardens of the Hesperides—which, by the way, were in the neighbourhood of Tangier, if Apollodorus is to be credited. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) The golden apples of the Hesperides grew there. Old Plymouth Trails But the serpent of futile melancholy, of the brief cadence of mortal dreams, and of the vanishing seconds that defile down the corridor of time, has stolen into this Garden of the Hesperides. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The whole region is in truth a veritable garden of the Hesperides, where in the mild equable climate fruit and flowers ripen and bloom without a break throughout the rolling year. The Naples Riviera The number of the Hesperides and their parentage are differently given in various legends. Minor Poems by Milton The most important of Leighton's later works, The Garden of the Hesperides, in many respects the most sumptuous piece of decoration he ever achieved, was shown this year. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work His best poems are included in the collection entitled "Hesperides, or Works Humane and Divine," published in 1648, and dedicated to "the most illustrious and most hopeful Prince Charles." Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer The peaches of immortality suggest the apples of the Hesperides. The Chinese Fairy Book A modern garden of the Hesperides lay about her. The Paliser case One large orchard seemed to be a very garden of Hesperides, yellow with golden oranges and sweet with fragrant blossoms. Aztec Land The ancients, in their ignorance, placed the garden of the Hesperides there. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras Above them shone the stars, golden as the apples of Hesperides. When Dreams Come True Those charming verses Found hanging here and there upon our trees, Like golden fruit, that to the finer sense Breathes of a new Hesperides: think you These are not tokens of a genuine love? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 It was a great serpent that watched over the apples of the Hesperides, and that Hercules, ere he could possess himself of the fruit, had to combat and kill. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed In the kitchens, charcoal is the commodity employed, and as this yields no visible sign, the outside atmosphere is preserved pure and cloudless as that which overhung the Hesperides. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley In the far western land, where the Hesperides guard the golden apples which Gaia gave to the lady Here, dwelt the maiden Medusa, with her sisters Stheino and Euryale, in their lonely and dismal home. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life Whether the golden apples of the Hesperides had the life-giving quality is doubtful. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Some of the best pieces of the Hesperides are even better known than the two well-known Noble Numbers above quoted. A History of Elizabethan Literature Herrick's Hesperides, p. 169., is a Bellman's song, a blessing, concluding: "Past one o'clock, and almost two, My masters all, good-day to you." Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc It strikes in us chords that lie at the foundation, the combinations that unlock the doors, and the “Imprisoned Splendor” wings in and out like the doves of Hesperides. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology For the garden, whatever its actual size, and were it as extensive as those of Eden and the Hesperides set on end, does not afford the exercise needful for spiritual health and vigour. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life Could the Garden of the Hesperides have held more charms? Aunt Jane of Kentucky The secular vigour of the Hesperides, the spiritual vigour of the Noble Numbers, has rarely been equalled and never surpassed by any other writer. A History of Elizabethan Literature He shall have the seeking for the Hesperides or the city of Atalanta, where still the golden age remains to be a model and ensample for us.' Privy Seal His Last Venture We have succeeded in substituting a chocolate caramel for the apples of Hesperides. Penguin Persons & Peppermints They are dream trees from the gardens of the Hesperides, and set in useful decoration to divide event from event and to give sensations to the student of the tree in ornament. The Tapestry Book They were on an island cut off from all to-morrows; but they were together, and their island held the fruits of the Hesperides. The Dark Tower Now it appeared to rise out of the earth, like the gardens of the Hesperides; now it was made to represent the rocks and caverns of Thrace. Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond, Mine the walnut slopes beyond, Mine on bending orchard trees, Apples of Hesperides. Graded Memory Selections The moment in which the god is represented is that which immediately followed his securing the apples of the Hesperides, the wedding present of Ge to Juno. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture He took an apple from the tree—you would have thought he had robbed the garden of the Hesperides. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Fortunatus with his wishing-hat and wonderful purse appealed to the romantic spirit of the time, when men still sailed in search of the Hesperides, compounded the elixir of youth, and sought for the philosopher's stone. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 The Hesperides were the three daughters of Night, who ruled the guardian dragon. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Later, in the cool of the evening, we had a deliciously pleasant walk through the town towards the beautiful gardens of Hesperides, and along the beach. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta Juno had left these apples with the Hesperides for safekeeping. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture Honour to the name of Jeremiah Rosher, the discoverer of the "capabilities" of this Garden of the Hesperides. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 One thing he asserted firmly: "Atlas upholds the broad Heaven ... standing on earth's verge with head and unwearied hands," while the clear-voiced Hesperides guarded their beautiful golden apples "beyond the waters of Ocean." A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole His tasks came to be known as the Twelve Labors of Hercules, and the eleventh was to obtain the golden apples from the Hesperides. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Without, three golden balls were hanging, like apples of the Hesperides; within was an array of goods which the three balls had brought in. Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine" But Felix could give no authority for this, and explained that Mrs. Thomas might be found to be a dragon still guarding the Hesperides. Orley Farm He touched an apple whose cheek grew rosy in the sun, and at once it became like the golden fruit in the Garden of the Hesperides. A Book of Myths There is a dreamy summer about them which make them enticing as the Hesperides of the ancients. Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings These golden apples, then, came to be known as the apples of Hesperides. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The Hesperides, the daughters of Atlas, dwelt in an island in the far west, whence they derived their name. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome In Greek legend apples are stolen from the garden of Hesperides. The Evolution of the Dragon But bravely did the winged shoes of Hermes bear Perseus on, and by nightfall the Gorgon sisters had passed from sight, and Perseus found himself once more in the garden of the Hesperides. A Book of Myths The fruit we were looking at was round, with a smooth shining skin of a golden orange colour, which might rival in appearance the golden apples of the Hesperides. In the Eastern Seas One of the most delightful of English lyric poets is Robert Herrick, whose Hesperides, 1648 has lately received such sympathetic illustration from the pencil of an American artist, Mr. E. A. Abbey. Brief History of English and American Literature This sacred tree was guarded by four maidens, daughters of Night, called the Hesperides, who were assisted in their task by a terrible hundred-headed dragon. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome What else was the fabled garden of the Hesperides, where the trees, guarded by a fierce and formidable serpent, bore apples of gold? The Angels' Song The figure was but that of a girl, slight and very youthful, yet more fair even than any of the nymphs of the Hesperides. A Book of Myths But what so natural as to think of the orange as the golden fruit, especially when the “aurea mala” of the Hesperides were familiar to all antiquity? English Past and Present What is this but an Eastern version—who dare say it is not the original?—of the more classical fable of the dragon and the golden fruit of the Hesperides? Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 Atlas, who willingly entered into the arrangement, contrived to put the dragon to sleep, and then, having cunningly outwitted the Hesperides, carried off three of the golden apples, which he now brought to Heracles. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome The twelfth and last was killing the serpent, and gaining the golden fruit in the gardens of the Hesperides. Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Is not Love a Hercules Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Shakspere, Personal Recollections Hesperides.—Already a name given to the order. Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers "The Garden of Hesperides and the Golden Apples!" exclaimed Miss Dorothy, settling down into the crotch and giving Marian a hand to help her to a seat by her side. Little Maid Marian On seeking advice from them as to his route, they directed him to the old sea-god Nereus, who alone knew the way to the Garden of the Hesperides. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Fairer never grew before poet's eye of old in the fabled Hesperides. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 The eleventh labour was to obtain the golden apples from the garden of the Hesperides. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales An allusion to the tree on which grew the golden apples of Juno, which were guarded by the Hesperides and the sleepless dragon Ladon. Milton's Comus The gardens of that California Hesperides were already getting dim in Milly's memory, blotted out by a more intoxicating vision. One Woman's Life When Heracles conveyed the golden apples to Eurystheus the latter presented them to the hero, whereupon Heracles placed the sacred fruit on the altar of Pallas-Athene, who restored them to the garden of the Hesperides. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome Places of this nature are alluded to under the description of the gardens of the Hesperides, and Alcinous; and the gardens of Adonis. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) The Greeks named the Quince "Chrysomelon," or the Golden Apple; so it is asserted that the golden fruit of the Hesperides were Quinces, and that these tempted Hercules to attack their guardian dragon. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure This pair of ‘noble numbers,’ of brilliant and fervent lyrics, is from Hesperides, or, The Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrich, Esq. Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys What of that apple beyond the seas, Fruit of the famed Hesperides? Poems Vol. IV They were the parents of the Gorgons, the Gr�a, and the Dragon which guarded the golden apples of the Hesperides. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome This island belongs to the Hesperides, not to the East. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett Leander now, like Theban Hercules, Entered the orchard of th' Hesperides; Whose fruit none rightly can describe but he That pulls or shakes it from the golden tree. Hero and Leander In the 'Hesperides' our author, with great judgment, rejects the common fable, which attributes to Hercules the slaying of the dragon and the plunder of the golden fruit. Early Reviews of English Poets You horticulturists never expect to raise such an apple as Lindsay describes; if you did, they would be more valuable than the golden apples of Hesperides. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Lady Douglas presided over these mysteries, in the secret chamber, with the vigilance of the dragon who guarded the golden apples in the classic shades of the Hesperides. Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton It would be interesting to know exactly when it was composed and committed to paper, for it is thought that the three fairy poems in Herrick's Hesperides were written about 1626. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton But the Robert Herrick, loose writer of the lovely Hesperides, and the Robert Herrick, shameful haunter of Papeete beach, are not extremes: and it was so very easy to avoid the association of ideas. Adventures in Criticism Taoism dealt with other worlds but they were gardens of the Hesperides, inhabited by immortal wizards and fairy queens, not those disquieting regions where the soul receives the reward of its deeds. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 The locality of the garden of the Hesperides is a disputed point with mythologists. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Ah! it is a beautiful spot, that garden of Hesperides. Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People Since then we have raced the light for a glimpse of El Araish, where the Gardens of the Hesperides were set by people of old time. Morocco While the barbarians were plundering these effects, more precious in their estimation than the apples of gold in the garden of the Hesperides, our party retired and got out of sight. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific It's like the garden of the Hesperides," she said, gayly—"such mellow shadows, and such gorgeous colors, like those of celestial fruits. Trumps It has been compared with Turner's great painting of the Dragon of the Hesperides. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I "And you will never get out of my clutch until you tell me the nearest way to the garden of the Hesperides!" Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People These Hesperides were none other than the three daughters of Atlas, and it was their duty, in which they were helped by a dragon, to guard the golden apples. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) In 1647 he published Hesperides, a collection of small poems of great lyric beauty, Anacreontic, pastoral, and amatory, but containing much that is coarse and indelicate. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction "It's like sending me to get the apples of Hesperides," he said, looking older than she, curiously and suddenly older. The Brimming Cup The fruit was in colour like the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson Did you ever hear of the golden apples that grew in the garden of the Hesperides? Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People Then Atlas opened the gate of the Garden of the Hesperides to Hercules. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) I can see the shadowy lines of its trees, And catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all my boyish dreams. Our Holidays Their Meaning and Spirit; retold from St. Nicholas Then Brian flung at the king the fourth golden apple which he had taken from the Garden of the Hesperides, and it dashed out his brains. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland Shall I ask Shakespeare to translate me his love "still climbing trees in the Hesperides"? The Function of the Poet and Other Essays The Hesperides Hesperus and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree. The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson In search of greener shores The Northmen braved the seas And reached, those faith-illumined rowers, Our dear Hesperides. Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs The golden gates of knowledge had just opened to her; she saw a faint, far-off glimpse of the Hesperides gardens within; of the dragon she had never heard, and had no fear. Bebee The three apples that I have demanded of you are the apples that grow in the garden of the Hesperides, in the east of the world, and none but these will do. The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland Do your waves wash the islands of the blest, Or view the Gardens of Hesperides? Mountain idylls, and Other Poems Groves glowing with oranges rose behind hedges of grotesque cactus or prickly pear; which really looked like green dragons guarding the golden apples of the Hesperides. The New Jerusalem It is as though the dragon that guarded the apples of Hesperides should be a dragon of virtue. Some Private Views But we watched the rain tramp up Hesperides Vale, you remember, and swing off unexpectedly to the near summits. The Rim of the Desert His Noble Numbers or Pious Pieces was pub. in 1647, his Hesperides or Works both Human and Divine in 1648, and the two together in one vol. in the latter year. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Associated words: Occident, Hesperian, Hesperus, Hesperides. western, a. occidental. west wind. Putnam's Word Book We had penetrated the Australian Hesperides, although the golden fruit was still to be sought. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 "You mean that 'Garden of the Hesperides' affair for up here, do you?" said Louis. The Price of Love So again the mayor's chocolate six-passenger car threaded the park and emerged this time on a straight, broad thoroughfare through Hesperides Vale. The Rim of the Desert Over 60, however, of the lighter poems included in Hesperides had previously appeared anonymously in a collection entitled Wit's Recreations. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Now I need hardly remark that the Mosaic narrative unquestionably professes a geographical exactness and a literal existence of the garden, as no fabled locality—no Utopia or garden of the Hesperides. Creation and Its Records And citrons from Firenze's fields, And golden apples from the isles That gladden the bright southern seas, True home of the Hesperides: Which now no dragon guards, but smiles, The bounteous mother, as she yields. Poems The thirteen islands of the Hesperides lie in the track of this voyage. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera "You may expect me at Hesperides Vale in a few days; as soon as my things at Vivian Court are packed." The Rim of the Desert Presumably this means the dragon Ladon in the garden of the Hesperides. The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study Hence he argued, that these islands must necessarily be the West Indies, and were called Hesperides from Hesperes king of Spain, who consequently with the Spaniards his subjects were lords of these islands. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The ancients had their Elysian Fields and the garden of the Hesperides, the Christian has his Garden of Eden, the Mahommedan his Paradise of groves and flowers and crystal fountains and black eyed Houries. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden We believe these islands to be those formerly called the Hesperides. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera But think of Hesperides Vale in another five years. The Rim of the Desert These gardens are as much lost as those of the Hesperides. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays He pretended to make out this assertion from what Aristotle wrote concerning the island of Atalantis, and Sebosus of the Hesperides. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time According to some accounts, the Hesperides, the daughters of Hesperus, were appointed to keep charge of the tree of golden apples which Jupiter presented to Juno on their wedding day. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden The Orange.—According to some authors, the far-famed "golden fruit of the Hesperides," which Hercules stole, was the orange; but it seems highly improbable that it was known to writers of antiquity. Science in the Kitchen. I guess then you must have heard about Hesperides Vale; the air's full of it, and while land is selling next to nothing you want to get in on the ground floor. The Rim of the Desert The following "Answer" appeared in a publication not so well known as the Hesperides. Notes and Queries, Number 22, March 30, 1850 He grounds this opinion on what is said by Statius and Sebosus, that certain islands called Hesperides lay forty days sail west from the Gorgonian islands on the coast of Africa. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Shakespeare seems to have taken Hesperides to be the name of the garden instead of that of its fair keepers. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden One of the most delightful of the English lyric poets is Robert Herrick, whose Hesperides, 1648, has lately received such sympathetic illustration from the pencil of an American artist, Mr. E.A. From Chaucer to Tennyson It's worth the drive up from Wenatchee just to see Hesperides Vale, and that special Eden of mine is the core. The Rim of the Desert The whole problem of our system, one would judge, seems to them like "apples of ashes," instead of the golden fruits of Hesperides. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Like some savage beast got into the garden of the fabled Hesperides, he made clear work of it, root and branch, with white, foaming tusks— "Laid waste the borders, and o'erthrew the bowers." The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Milton, after the fourth line of his Comus, had originally inserted, in his manuscript draft of the poem, the following description of the garden of the Hesperides. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden At one moment it seemed to rise out of the earth, like the garden of the Hesperides, and was afterwards broken into the rocks and caverns of Thrace. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 He mapped out a project of his own long before anybody dreamed of Hesperides Vale. The Rim of the Desert So called in allusion to the golden apples of the Hesperides. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H Among the poets of England the author of the "Hesperides" remains, and is likely to remain, unique. Ponkapog Papers For valour is not love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Yes! they have gone off to spend their honeymoon, and Margaret has written to me twice to say how happy they are together in the Hesperides. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance I remember how I felt when I struck the Hesperides. The Rim of the Desert MY Martial owns a garden, famed to please, Beyond the glades of the Hesperides; Along Janiculum lies the chosen block Where the cool grottos trench the hanging rock. New Poems Herrick was nearly sixty years old when he published the "Hesperides." Ponkapog Papers Of the gardens of Hesperides, we know nothing singular, but some golden apples. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden And Atlas through hard constraint upholds the wide heaven with unwearying head and arms, standing at the borders of the earth before the clear-voiced Hesperides; for this lot wise Zeus assigned to him. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica "I have the land at Hesperides Vale, you know, and if I do not sell it soon, perhaps he will take it for the debt." The Rim of the Desert People came from a long distance, now that the Parliamentary Wars were over, in order just to see the writer of the Hesperides and the Noble Numbers. The Certain Hour But were they as ample as could be desired they would still be unimportant compared with the single fact that in 1648 he gave to the world his "Hesperides." Ponkapog Papers Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched For death-like dragons here affright thee hard. Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden And again the goddess murky Night, though she lay with none, bare Blame and painful Woe, and the Hesperides who guard the rich, golden apples and the trees bearing fruit beyond glorious Ocean. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica "Is it in Hesperides Vale, where the Bankses live?" The Rim of the Desert Far and lofty yet they glimmer, Apples of Hesperides! A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass They belonged to a Polynesian garden of the Hesperides. Moon and Sixpence Bishop Newton, in a foot-note to the passage in "Paradise Regained," asks, "What are the Hesperides famous for, but the gardens and orchards which they had bearing golden fruit in the western Isles of Africa." Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden Incapable of judgment, menaced by the phantasms of his brain inflamed, he envisages islands perhaps of the Hesperides beneath his keel—vigias innumerable.' Traffics and Discoveries "I did not tell you I had friends in Hesperides Vale," she said at last. The Rim of the Desert Orbed, and glittering, and pendent, Apples of Hesperides! A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass You will obligingly remember that the car for the Hesperides is in the rear, and that this is the third and last call. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Hercules is only a rascal, the apples of Hesperides only turnips, the siege of Troy but a revolt of the national guard. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings Among the coins issued by Diocletian's co-Emperor Maximian, is one bearing a representation of the Sun-God Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides near the Tree encircled by the Serpent he slew. The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion But say, look into Hesperides Vale while you are at Wenatchee, and if my proposition seems good to you at one hundred dollars an acre, and that is what I'm paying, drop me a line. The Rim of the Desert Glinting golden through the trees, Apples of Hesperides! A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Yes, I was not speaking quite honestly when I pretended I had as lief go into the Hesperides as to Tir-nam-Beo: it was wrong of me, and I ask your pardon. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice They tell us that there are such things, and that they have seen them; but, perhaps, they saw them, as the apples in the garden of the Hesperides were sometimes seen—over the wall. Prue and I Here once bloomed, and perhaps still blooms, the famous garden of the Hesperides, with its golden fruit. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies In less than an hour Hesperides Vale stretched behind him, and the bold front of Cerberus lifted holding the gap. The Rim of the Desert Yielding to no man's desire, Glowing with a saffron fire, Splendid, unassailed, the golden Apples of Hesperides! A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass No hedge of language however thorny, no dragon-coil of centuries, will keep men away from these true apples of the Hesperides if once they have caught sight or scent of them. Among My Books Second Series But in "The Garden of the Hesperides" Sir Frederick is himself, and nothing but himself. Modern Painting Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge Enchantment sails through magic seas To faeryland Hesperides, Over the hills and away. Poems I understand you are from Hesperides Vale, and I grew up over there in the Columbia desert. The Rim of the Desert The title of this rare old volume is "Hesperides, or about the Golden Apples, their Culture and Use." History of California Between these contrasts, which the east and west coasts present, the Hesperides and Siberia, lies the vast heath which stretches itself from the Lyneborg sand to the Skagen's reef. O. T. a Danish Romance There was Herrick, the dispossessed Devonshire rector, with Hesperides and Noble Numbers, freer than were the others from the beauty-marring conceits of the time. Palamon and Arcite The number for the month had been just published, and Candide had contributed to it his "Hesperides," a charming poem, although the reader will not find that title in his works. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 The dragon, whose "ever-open eye" protected the garden of the Hesperides, was the Son of Earth. Old Calabria The Golden Apples of the Hesperides The orange, like many other of California's most valuable products, was brought into the country by the patient, far-seeing padres. History of California But I suppose it does not make so much difference, for love transmutes the fruit in Huldy's lap into the apples of the Hesperides. Our Hundred Days in Europe El Dorado, similar to Atlas and the islands of the Hesperides, disappeared by degrees from the domain of geography, and entered that of mythological fictions. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Here in this month's Putnam there is a very pretty poem called 'Hesperides.' From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 Some of the 'Noble Numbers' are almost as pleasing as the 'Hesperides,' but not because of real religious significance. A History of English Literature Men say—beyond the western seas The happy isles no longer glow, No sailor sights Hesperides, All that was long ago. Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems Probably Turner's "Garden of the Hesperides" in the National Gallery. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Or is death fabled out but terrable To fright us from it? or rather is there not Some hid Hesperides, some blessed fruites Moated about with death. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 By affixing the title Hesperides to his volume of nearly thirteen hundred poems, Herrick doubtless meant to imply that they were chiefly composed in the western part of England. Halleck's New English Literature It was the panel on which M. Raoul had sketched an imaginary board with his thumb-nail—the Garden of the Hesperides. The Westcotes The merchant-men, 'tis they say so, That trade across the western seas, In hurried transit to and fro, About Hesperides. Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy; and Other Poems We find the same artist in the Noble Numbers as in the Hesperides, but hardly the same man. England's Antiphon "At this city," says Pliny, "was the palace of Antaeus, and his combat with Hercules and the gardens of Hesperides." Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. Turner and his "Garden of the Hesperides," now in the National Gallery. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Peace! she is well—Sleep folds her in his arms, And each upheaving of his drowsy breast Is like a billow upon pleasure's sea, Wafting her on to far Hesperides. Poems But when the image of Jack came to her mind, as it did day and night, it was as the gay, frank, chivalrous Hotspur, as unlike a murderer as Golgotha to Hesperides. The Iron Game A Tale of the War It was all a pageant of pure pleasure, and I walked on air, eating the fruit of the Hesperides. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography They are Calypso's and Prospero's isle, and the Hesperides, and Paradise, and every timeless and untroubled spot. Letters from America Lines like these remind us of the greater poet's The Eve of St. Agnes:— "Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge Enchantment sails through magic seas To fairyland Hesperides." History of American Literature It is base enough to compare the gardens of the Hesperides to a merchant's office! The Pillars of the House, V1 After long wanderings and toils he came to the Gardens of Twilight, the rich and rare gardens of the primeval world, known by rumour to the ancient Greeks as the Hesperides. AE in the Irish Theosophist This garden of the Hesperides was sometimes thought to be the same as the fabled island of Atlantis of which we have already heard. English Literature for Boys and Girls In another month they will be flying away, to Africa and the Hesperides—all of them except the sparrows, who stay all winter. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box From which omphalos or hub of the universe he will direct his shining team even to the far Hesperides of Richmond or of Windsor. Pagan Papers Yet it was the sweetest morsel he had ever tasted, and the apples might have been grown in the garden of the Hesperides from the satisfaction and pleasure they gave this hungry man. Agatha Webb The apple of Paradise was one of the apples of the Greek legends, intrusted to the Hesperides, but which they could not resist the temptation to pluck and eat. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel The Hesperides, from whom he took the name of his book, were lovely maidens who dwelt in a beautiful garden far away on the verge of the ocean. English Literature for Boys and Girls And what you tell me of the sparrows in the Hesperides is very novel and impressive—unless, indeed, it is a mere traveller's tale, with which you are seeking to practise upon my credulity. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Angel Island would be an Atlantis, an Eden, an Arden, an Arcadia, a Utopia, a Milleamours, a Paradise, the Garden of Hesperides. Angel Island Its subject is the winning of the golden apples which grew in the garden of the Hesperides, near the spot where Atlas stood, evermore supporting on his shoulders the weight of the heavens. A History of Greek Art Why, because my own love had turned to ashes in my grasp, should I mock at those who fancied they had found the golden fruit of the Hesperides? Vendetta: a story of one forgotten The Hesperides is a collection of more than a thousand short poems, a few of which you have already read in this chapter. English Literature for Boys and Girls In my geography it is written that between Catanzaro and the sea lie the gardens of the Hesperides. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy The eleventh task was to bring apples from the garden of the Hesperides—golden apples guarded by a dragon with a hundred heads, no one of which ever closed its eyes in sleep. Heroes Every Child Should Know I am she that set my seal upon the nameless West worlds of seas; And my sons as brides took unto them the tameless Hesperides. Songs Before Sunrise The celestial fruits, the golden apples of the Hesperides, are ever guarded by a hundred-headed dragon which never sleeps, so that it is an herculean labor to pluck them. Wild Apples He called it The Hesperides, or the works both Human and Divine. English Literature for Boys and Girls Were not the apples of the Hesperides, the necklace of Eriphyle, the bridles, the armour, the unsheathed sword in the hand of Amphiaraus, also of gold? Greek Studies: a Series of Essays And you must ask his daughters, the Hesperides, who are young and foolish like yourself. Heroes Every Child Should Know The Hesperides were also "daughters of Atlas;" their mother was Hesperis, a personification of "the region of the West." Atlantis : the antediluvian world Samson carried off the gates of Gaza and bore them to the top of a hill before Hebron; Herakles upheld the heavens while Atlas went to fetch the golden apples of Hesperides. A Second Book of Operas It was during these years that the Hesperides was first published, although for a long time before many people had known his poems, for they had been handed about among his friends in manuscript. English Literature for Boys and Girls Sir, I could wish, that for the time of your vouchsafed abiding here, and more real entertainment, this is my house stood on the Muses hill, and these my orchards were those of the Hesperides. Every Man out of His Humour This idea is as old as the Dragon in the Garden of the Hesperides—and older. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 Hercules slew the serpent, and gave the apples to the Hesperides. Atlantis : the antediluvian world Soon, the cap emerges entirely and spreads into a disk softer than satin to the touch and richer to the eye than all the fruit of the Hesperides. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography He was the father of the Hesperides, and Hercules thought, might, if any one could, find the apples and bring them to him. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable Above him on the crest of the cliff ran the dark green line of the orange groves of Araish—the reputed Garden of the Hesperides of the ancients, where the golden apples grew. The Sea-Hawk The ancients believed in a golden age, in the garden of the Hesperides!... Five Tales This tree was put in the care of the Hesperides, but they could not resist the temptation to pluck and eat its fruit; thereupon a serpent named Ladon was put to watch the tree. Atlantis : the antediluvian world I can see the shadowy lines of its trees, And catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all my boyish dreams. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 Milton in his Comus makes the Hesperides the daughters of Hesperus, and nieces of Atlas: "——- amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus and his daughters three, That sing about the golden tree." Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable He started off to find the Garden of the Hesperides, the Daughters of the Evening Land. The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Or in wild wrath the affrighted clouds lay shattered, Like treasures of the lost Hesperides, All in a wealth of ruined splendour scattered, Save one strange light on distant silver seas. Legends and Lyrics Part 2 "According to the traditions of the Phœnicians, the Gardens of the Hesperides were in the remote west." Atlantis : the antediluvian world The little satyr looked and guessed: "It is an apple that one sees, Brought from that garden of the West— Hesperides." The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 Hence they placed in it the Isles of the blest, the ruddy isle Erytheia, on which the bright oxen of Geryon were pastured, and the isle of the Hesperides. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable When the maidens saw him they came toward him crying out: "O man who has come into the Garden of the Hesperides, go not near the tree that the sleepless dragon guards!" The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles When I first read about the apples of the Hesperides, my idea of them was that they were like the Colonel's "pumpkin-sweetings." A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) The Greek mythology, in speaking of the Garden of the Hesperides, tells us that "the outer edge of the garden was slightly raised, so that the water might not run in and overflow the land." Atlantis : the antediluvian world There he was reared by the lily maidens called Hesperides, till he came to his full strength, and commanded the whole army of the Aethiopes. Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the sacker of cities The most difficult labor of all was bringing the golden apples of the Hesperides, for Hercules did not know where to find them. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable A dragon watched over the golden apples in the garden of the Hesperides. Penguin Island Who has not heard of and longed for the 'apples of the Hesperides'? Heart of the West Greek traditions of "the golden apples of the Hesperides" and "the golden fleece" point to Atlantis. Atlantis : the antediluvian world For valour, is not Love a Hercules, Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? Love's Labour's Lost He took an apple from the tree you would have thought he had robbed the garden of the Hesperides. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable I tell the mariner when to sail the seas; I waft o'er all the land from far away The breath and bloom of the Hesperides, My birthplace. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I can see the shadowy lines of its trees, And catch, in sudden gleams, The sheen of the far-surrounding seas, And islands that were the Hesperides Of all my boyish dreams. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse Considered merely as a pretty story, the legend of the golden fruit watched by the dragon in the garden of the Hesperides is not without its value. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! that was long ago. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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