"Daimon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... forever, and the Spirit stands erect in her bright Palingenesis, half-intoxicate with the all-pervading sense of her own grand beauty. The tree is rent asunder,—Ariel soars again in his element. Psyche has loosed herself from the fettering contact of Daimon, and lo, now, how daintily she poises on tiptoe, fluttering her wings ere she launches like a star into the wide exhilarant ether! O divine Art! pride, glory, first love of my soul! now, indeed, hast thou exchanged the yoke of dull Saturn and the gloomy caverns of earth for the fair heights of Olympus, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 32, June, 1860 • Various
... went with the highest pitch accent, while o appeared in syllables of a lower pitch. But if there is any foundation for the theory, which is by no means certain, its effects have been distorted and modified by all manner of analogical processes. Thus poimen with acute accent and daimon with the acute accent on the preceding syllable would correspond to the rule, so would aletes and epos, but there are many exceptions like odos where the acute accent accompanies an o vowel. Somewhat ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... DAIMON 't was printed in the book; And as I read it slowly, The letters moved and changed and took Jove's stature, the Olympian ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various |
