Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1807. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... thing. Alas! the great Hercules was entangled again in the snares of love, which he had so often detested. He conceived a passion for Dejenira: She was his wife, and happy had he been, had he been constant to her; but Iole's youth, on whose face the graces were pictured, quickly ravished his heart. Dejenira burning with jealously bethought her of the fatal tunick, which the centaurNessus had bequeathed her at his death, as a certain mean to awaken the love of Hercules, as often as he should seem to neglect her, and to be fond of another. This tunick, embrued with the venomous blood of the centaur,. contained the poison of the arrows with which ' that monster was slain. You know that the arrows with which Hercules killed the perfidious centaur, had been dipped in the blood of the Lernaan Hydra, and that this blood poisoned those arrows in such a degree that all their wounds were incurable Hercules having put on this tunick, presently felt the devouring fire, which insinuated itself even into the marrow of his bortes. He roared in a horrible manner, making mount Oeta and all the deep vallies ring with his cries ; nay, the sea itself seemed to be moved; the most furious bulls in their conflicts could not have made a more terrible bellowing. The ill-fated Lychas, who had brought him this tunick from Dejenira, presuming to approach him, Hercules seized him in the transports of his anguish, and as a slinger whirls a stone in his sling, in order to cast h the farther, whirled him swiftly round, and then with his potent hands hurled him from the top of the mountains into the billows of the sea: where he wasimmediately transformed into a rock, which still retains a human shape, and being continually beaten by the angry waves, alarms the wary pilot at a distance. 'J.After...
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