Proteus : prophet & shepherd of the sea’s flocks, he avoided predicting events. Those who wished to consult him had first to surprise & bind him during his noonday slumber. Even when caught he used his power to assume all sorts of shapes in order to escape having to predict. (cf. Cassandra & Sahadeva)
... 361 Poland, 72, 127 Pole, the, 304 Polonius, 187 Pope, 212 Pound, Ezra, 192 Pragmatism, 326 Prithwiraj, 90 Prometheus, 234 Proteus, 274 Prussia, 88 Puranas, the, 71 Pythagoras, 150,211,219 QUANTUM MECHANICS, 316 RACINE, 197 Raghus, the, 55 Ramayana, the, 217 Ramdas ...
... precisely in this attempt to express simultaneity of diverse gestures and activities, a synthetic close-up of succeeding moments and disparate objects or events. But in spite of all changes Proteus remains Proteus and can be recognised as such by the vigilant and careful eye. The human frame, we have said, is more fixed and rigid, being made of the material substance. It has not evidently the variability ...
... describe Love" began Powell "yet in order to describe I must first define. And how is that possible with a being intangible as the air and inconstant as the moon? For Love is as slippery and mutable as Proteus, chameleon-hued, multiform, amorphous, infinite; the transmigrations of a Hindu soul are not more various and elastic; the harmony of his outlines are not blurred by chaos or the weird; rather like ...
... immemorial culture: one of our best known scriptural phrases is the ancient Vedic message, sarva janah sukhino bhavantu, "let all people live in happiness through peace." But "peace" is a veritable proteus of a word. There can be a dead peace as well as a living one. Was it not said by Tacitus about the conquest of Germany by the Romans: Solitudinem faciunt et pacem appellant, "They make a desert ...
... Pilgrim's Progress. Take Wordsworth as a Nature-worshipper, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. 1 or Wordsworth the Pagan, Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 2 I do not know if this is not mysticism, what else is. Neither is religious poetry true mysticism (or true spirituality) ...
... Nobel Prize 47 Norway 25 O Olympian 4, 32 Ormuz 16 P Pan 32 Paradise Lost 9 Parasara 8 Polacks 25 Pondicherry 92 Prabhat Mukberji 97 Proteus 17 Purushottama 14 Q Queen Eleanor 49 R Rakshasas 5 Ramayana 103 Ramprasad 78 Rex Warner 47 Rishi 12 Rishi, Vedic 8, 16, 33, 34, 37, 72, 79 ...
... Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Or that wonder-image magically wrought in those famous unforgettable lines: Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn. We may turn to an Eastern poet to see how he too has gone the same way although in a different tone and temper. Here ...
... repeated and yet they have not grown stale: A voice so thrilling never was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides Or, Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn. This magic has no parallel, except perhaps in Shakespeare's Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares ...
... not grown stale: A voice so thrilling never was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides, or, Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. This magic has no parallel, except perhaps in Shakespeare's Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take ...
... golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.¹ Or that wonder-image magically wrought in those famous unforgettable lines: Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.² We may turn to an Eastern poet to see how he too has gone the same way although in a different tone and temper. Here is a Kalidasian ...
... repeated and yet they have not grown stale: A voice so thrilling never was heard. . . Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides Or, Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea Or hear old Triton blow his wreathéd horn. This magic has no parallel, except perhaps in Shakespeare's Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, ...
... Pilgrim's Progress. Take Wordsworth as a Nature-worshipper, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.¹ or Wordsworth the Pagan, Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. 2 I do not know if this is not mysticism, what else is. Neither is religious poetry true mysticism (or true spirituality) ...
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