A JAR OF HONEY
FROM MOUNT HYBLA
A JAR OF HONEY
FROM
MOUNT HYBLA
BY LEIGH HUNT
ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD DOYLE
A NEW EDITION
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1883
TO
HORACE SMITH,
WHO, THOUGH HE SUPPRESSES THE PASTORALS WHICH HE WROTE
IN HIS YOUTH,
WILL RETAIN AS LONG AS HE LIVES,
A HEART OPEN TO EVERY NATURAL AND NOBLE IMPRESSION,
THESE PAGES,
WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE, BUT CONFIDING IN HIS INDULGENCE,
ARE INSCRIBED,
BY HIS EVER GRATEFUL AND AFFECTIONATE FRIEND,
LEIGH HUNT.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| CHRISTMAS AND ITALY: or, A Prefatory Essay, showing the Extreme Fitness of this Book for the Season | 1 |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| INTRODUCTORY. | |
| A BLUE JAR FROM SICILY, AND A BRASS JAR FROM THE “ARABIAN NIGHTS;” AND WHAT CAME OUT OF EACH | 25 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| SICILY, AND ITS MYTHOLOGY. | |
| ISLAND OF SICILY, AND MOUNT ÆTNA.—STORIES OF TYPHŒUS, POLYPHEMUS, SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS, GLAUCUS AND SCYLLA,ALPHEUS AND ARETHUSA, THE SIRENS, AND THE RAPE OF PROSERPINE | 34 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| GLANCES AT ANCIENT SICILIAN HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. | |
| VICISSITUDES OF SICILIAN GOVERNMENT.—GLANCES AT PHALARIS, STESICHORUS, EMPEDOCLES, HIERO I., SIMONIDES, EPICHARMUS,DIONYSIUS I., DAMON AND PYTHIAS, DAMOCLES, DIONYSIUS II., DION, PLATO, AGATHOCLES, HANNIBAL, HIERO II., THEOCRITUS,ARCHIMEDES, MARCELLUS, VERRES; AND PARTICULARS RELATING TO GELLIAS | 58 |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| THEOCRITUS. | |
| PASTORAL POETRY.—SPECIMENS OF THE STRENGTH AND COMIC HUMOUR OF THEOCRITUS.—THE PRIZE-FIGHT BETWEEN POLLUXAND AMYCUS.—THE SYRACUSAN GOSSIPS | ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |