"Phaethon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dear, In twain divides. O, 'tis a day for reverence, E'en my own birthday scarce so dear, For my Maecenas counts from thence Each added year. 'Tis Telephus that you'd bewitch: But he is of a high degree; Bound to a lady fair and rich, He is not free. O think of Phaethon half burn'd, And moderate your passion's greed: Think how Bellerophon was spurn'd By his wing'd steed. So learn to look for partners meet, Shun lofty things, nor raise your aims Above your fortune. Come then, sweet, My last ...
— Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace • Horace
... withdrew; and when he felt himself quite at play, he turned his tail to where his breast had been, and moved it, stretched out like an eel, and with his paws gathered the air to himself. Greater fear I do not think there was when Phaethon abandoned the reins, whereby heaven, as is still apparent, was scorched; nor when the wretched Icarus felt his flanks unfeathering through the melting of the wax, his father shouting to him, "Ill way thou holdest," than mine was, when I saw that I was in the air on every side, and saw every sight ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell [The Inferno] • Dante Alighieri
... unsung: nor thee the more, Cupavo lord of few, Up from the cresting of whose helm the feathery swan-wings rise. Love was thy guilt; thy battle-sign was thine own father's guise. For Cycnus, say they, while for love of Phaethon he grieves. And sings beneath his sisters' shade, beneath the poplar-leaves; 190 While with the Muse some solace sweet for woeful love he won, A hoary eld of feathers soft about him doth he on, ...
— The AEneids of Virgil - Done into English Verse • Virgil
... the violet light (Oinone, Iole), which he had forsaken in the morning; sank, as Herakles, upon a blazing funeral-pyre, or, like Agamemnon, perished in a blood-stained bath; or, as the fish-god, Dagon, swam nightly through the subterranean waters, to appear eastward again at daybreak. Sometimes Phaethon, his rash, inexperienced son, would take the reins and drive the solar chariot too near the earth, causing the fruits to perish, and the grass to wither, and the wells to dry up. Sometimes, too, the great all-seeing divinity, in his wrath at the impiety of men, would shoot ...
— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske
... come, 'like glistening Phaethon, wanting the manage of unruly jades,'" quoted Smith. "Still, we're safe, and I've known men killed or lamed for life getting ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang |
