| 单词 | primaeval |
| 例句 | Age has just the least in the world dimmed the lustre we once knew, but an unmistakable breath of the morning still encircles him, and the odour of primaeval woods. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z But in the middle of her speech she falls into a primaeval doze of some eighteen hundred years. William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work 2011-09-13T02:00:35.943Z Most of the dwellings were miserable huts built of sacking and other rubbish, and standing in small clearings made in the thick, primaeval scrub. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z The young archer, causing water to spring from the rock by a shot from his bow, marks the miraculous cessation of prehistoric dearth, as the bull leaping from a skiff perhaps commemorates a primaeval deluge. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius There was no pretence that they were of an intrinsically inferior race, or that they were suffering from the primaeval curse of Canaan or of Ham. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Besides the high primaeval deities, born of the Night, the Society Islanders believed in a host of inferior divinities, many of whom were said to have been created by Taaroa, the supreme god. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II Now the Book of Genesis certainly spoke of a primaeval disobedience in our first parents, and of the infliction on them, as a penalty for their disobedience, of conditions of strife and pain and death. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition With the dissolution of these primaeval communities society begins to be differentiated into separate and finally antagonistic classes. Manifesto of the Communist Party The world would come to an end and be restored to primaeval silence. Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity Of Night primaeval and of Chaos old; Before her, Fancy's gilded clouds decay, And all its varying rainbows die away; Wit shoots in vain its momentary fires, The meteor drops, and in a flash expires. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges In the Polynesian languages po is the word both for "night" and for "the shades," the primaeval darkness from which all forms of life were evolved, and to which the souls of the dead return. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II It seems, from their positions, that very possibly Seb and Nut were the primaeval gods of the aborigines of Hottentot type, before the Osiris worshippers of European type ever entered the Nile valley. The Religion of Ancient Egypt But at any rate he has allowed no breath of later enlightenment to disturb the primaeval gloom of his atmosphere. Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes Now what holds good of primaeval and savage man holds good also of civilized, perhaps even of ourselves among our machine made and easily replaced properties. The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics Sometimes I tremble, Anna, to think how near I came to passing through life without a single glimpse, a moment’s revelation of this greatest and most awful of mysteries, the mystery of primaeval nature. Anna the Adventuress “Yes,” said the doctor, “and that we can go round, for we are evidently skirting the edge of this primaeval jungle.” Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites This poem deals with the overthrow of the primaeval order of Gods by Jupiter, son of Saturn the old king. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 But I can help them to an explanation of what became of these primaeval men-of-arms. Gryll Grange The yearly phenomenon brought home to the minds of the Babylonians, a picture of primaeval chaos. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria For a moment the primaeval man in him leapt up, telling him that he had only to pit himself against Vardri, and the victory would be assuredly his own. The Hippodrome The primaeval serpent-worship is perpetuated in the reverence paid to traditional village-snakes. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official An old resentment, centuries and ages older than she was, a primaeval heritage from the past, flamed up unexpectedly in her heart. The Brimming Cup Behind lay the central and southern portions of the island, hushed as if their primaeval rocks were still tenantless. The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century Another theory appears to have existed according to which the gods were contemporaneous with primaeval chaos. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Harran and Ur were two of the gifts which passed to Canaan from the speakers of the primaeval language of Chaldæa. Patriarchal Palestine The grip of the primaeval had laid hold of her heart! The Lady of Big Shanty But how would it have been possible for Milton to have enriched his poetry with all these elements in a primaeval age, when many of them did not exist? The World's Best Poetry, Volume 10 Poetical Quotations It went out in silence—a dreadful, lasting silence in which the souls of men, stripped naked of human convention, stood confronting the first primaeval instinct of human chivalry. The Way of an Eagle Apsu represents the male and Tiâmat the female principle of the primaeval universe. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The fertile loam forming the bottoms was densely covered with the growth of the primaeval forest, broken here and there by glade-like openings, where herds of game grazed on the tall, thick grass. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 If thou wilt not unmask thy counterfeit, This earth will be the prey of strife once more, As when primaeval discord held its reign. Don Quixote I remember you always wanted primaeval vigour in the woman of your choice on account of the soundness of the strain. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I She went through those awful moments as a woman possessed, blindly obeying the compelling force, goaded by sheer, primaeval instinct to protect her own. The Way of an Eagle The massing together of the primaeval waters completes the picture of chaos in the cuneiform account. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria The book which these old hunters read around their camp-fire in the Indian-haunted primaeval forest a century and a quarter ago has by great good-luck been preserved, and is in Col. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Australian morning is always charming,—amid these scenes of primaeval nature it seemed exquisitely so. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia And the sensations it arouses are the same; the same primaeval untouched force lies outstretched in its breadth and majesty before the eyes of the spectator. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories The belief that some persons had the gift of understanding what the birds said, is primaeval. Popular Tales from the Norse Wrykyn, except on Market Day, was wont to be wrapped in a primaeval calm which very nearly brought tears to the strenuous eyes of the man from Manhattan. The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories During five weeks of severe toil the little band journeyed through vast solitudes, whose utter loneliness can with difficulty be understood by those who have not themselves dwelt and hunted in primaeval mountain forests. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 So, turning, I ascended an elevated north-eastern extremity of Mount Abundance, and from it beheld the finest country I had ever seen in a primaeval state. Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia It not only renews one's body: in a way it renews one's soul, restoring it to primaeval simplicity and naturalness. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories Those records are written in a language closely allied to the primaeval common tongue of those two branches before they parted, and descending from a period anterior to their separation. Popular Tales from the Norse For whithersoever civilization may take us, we must still go back to certain primaeval laws of justice between man and man. Barlasch of the Guard The ancient bardic lore and primaeval traditions were refined to suit the new and sensitive poetic taste. Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. Through the kindly branches of the lilac I watched him, and then, as though in obedience to the primaeval call of that July sunshine, I stood on tiptoe, and blew him a kiss. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel The Titans in general symbolize the dark and mysterious powers of primaeval nature and mind; the younger gods, whatsoever enters more immediately within the circle of consciousness. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature This, too, is a primaeval story, told with many variations. Popular Tales from the Norse Mr. Moxon commenced with some of the primaeval delicacies of Charles Lamb. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Nothing is brother to primaeval matter, 'Bout which philosophers their brains may batter To find it out, but still their hopes they flatter. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 But the convulsions of war have thrown up things that are deeper than these, primaeval things, which, until recently, civilization was believed to have destroyed. England and the War Ascending the valley's opposite wall, we found the remains of primaeval forests,—little glades which had escaped the axe,— they resounded with the cries of pintados and cynocephali. First Footsteps in East Africa But the belief that men, under certain conditions, could also take the shape of animals, is primaeval, and the traditions of every race can tell of such transformations. Popular Tales from the Norse It was assumed that primaeval religion was universally the worship of the serpent and of the tree. Lectures and Essays But in the country you see little signs, a patch of swamp, or thickets of still untouched primaeval wood, which remind you that Europeans have not long had this land. Letters from America The curtain, rose on a "glade in the forest primaeval," as was announced by the dozen playbills which did duty for the audience. Half a Dozen Girls If thou wilt not unmask thy counterfeit, This earth will be the prey of strife once more, As when primaeval discord held its reign. The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 09 I hope also to be able to show that it was a knowledge of the relation of sound to form which dictated the form of the letters in many primaeval alphabets. AE in the Irish Theosophist In totally forbidding composition for blood, and asserting that indefeasible sanctity of human life which is the essential basis of civilization, the code of Moses stands contrasted with other primaeval codes. Lectures and Essays His rosy-cheeked typical Russian face, with its large white brow, rather thick nose, and wide straight lips seemed breathing with the wild health of the steppes, with vigorous primaeval energy. A House of Gentlefolk "Ah, well," he said, as if to himself, "it's something to be in a country where the sun still goes down with a thought of the primaeval." The Imperialist You might as well say life itself does not exist, because you cannot see its primaeval causes or beginnings. God's Good Man As a matter of fact Jane and he were as much lost to one another as if the whole of England had been primaeval forest. The Fortunate Youth But mythology is merely the primaeval matrix of religion. Lectures and Essays A moralist may pause upon the fact, that Alexander must in this march have passed within a few miles of the remains of Nineveh, the great, city of the primaeval conquerors of the human race. The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo When we pass from Southern to Central Europe we still meet with the great god of the oak and the thunder among the barbarous Aryans who dwelt in the vast primaeval forests. The Golden Bough If it were not for hypocrisy, we should all be savages as utterly and completely as in primaeval days! God's Good Man Nature's primaeval state returns again, Where man stands hostile to his fellow man; And if all other means shall fail his need, One last resource remains—his own good sword. Wilhelm Tell If we are to be anchored hard and fast to the signification of primaeval language, how are we to obtain an intellectual basis for "the not us which makes for righteousness?" Lectures and Essays Remote from the polite, they still retained the primaeval simplicity of manners, and frugal by habit, they scarce knew that temperance was a virtue. The Vicar of Wakefield For at the dawn of history Europe was covered with immense primaeval forests, in which the scattered clearings must have appeared like islets in an ocean of green. The Golden Bough Suburbs of towns, and open, sunny cultivated places in Brazil, are tenanted by species of animals and plants which are mostly different from those of the dense primaeval forests. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Dr. Budge gives a detailed comparison of the Egyptian pairs of primaeval deities with the very similar couples of the Babylonian myth. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition But man emerges from the primaeval state, and when he does, he demands a reason for his submission to moral law. Lectures and Essays He had begun a series of paintings on the theme of primaeval man. And Even Now His cosmos would necessarily be imperfect and unequal, being the first attempt to impress form and order on the primaeval chaos of human knowledge. Timaeus A mile or a mile and a half further on, the character of the woods began to change, and we then found ourselves in the primaeval forest. The Naturalist on the River Amazons The only parallel this Egyptian myth of Creation presents to the Hebrew cosmogony is in its picture of the primaeval water, corresponding to the watery chaos of Genesis i. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition Not Greek Art itself springing forth in its perfection from the dark background of primaeval history, seems to me a greater miracle than these. Lectures and Essays Tischbein suggested a great poem on the theme of primaeval man—a volume of engravings after Tischbein, with running poetic commentary by Goethe. And Even Now For instance, if the scent of the primaeval monster can so remain in proportion to the original strength, can the same be true of things of good import?” Lair of the White Worm The narrow brook-watered valleys, with which the land is intersected, alone have remained clothed with primaeval forest, at least near the town. The Naturalist on the River Amazons Before leaving the names, it may be added that, of the primaeval deities, Anshar and Kishar are obviously Sumerian in form. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition Now it appears likely that these conditions were exactly fulfilled by the primaeval settlements on the hills of Rome. Lectures and Essays We have no right to suppose he had plotted to avenge himself for the poet's refusal to collaborate with him on the theme of primaeval man. And Even Now We are tempted to linger over the story of these primaeval mariners, for nothing equals it in romance. Lectures and Essays In the primaeval age of conquest they, with seagirt Ireland, were the asylum of the weaker race. Lectures and Essays Here the Sumerian Creator is pictured as forming dry land from the primaeval water in much the same way as the early cultivator in the Euphrates Valley procured the rich fields for his crops. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition This is true of him on the whole, though he sometimes was guilty of thoroughly primaeval cruelty. Lectures and Essays The further we go in these inquiries the more reason there seems to be for believing that the peculiarities of races are not congenital, but impressed by primaeval circumstance. Lectures and Essays Indeed, the only suggestion of a Deluge story is suggested by the presence of Nu, the primaeval water-god, at Ra's council, and that is explicable on other grounds. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition There Marduk, identified wholly as the Sun-god, conquers the once featureless primaeval water, which in the process of redaction has now become the Dragon of flood and storm. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition |
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