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And thrice called 'Hylas' -- ne'er came lustier roar
Theocritus, translated into English Verse 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus
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Arrival among the Mysians: rape of Hylas, which is announced to Heracles
The Argonautica 2008
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Arrival among the Mysians: rape of Hylas, which is announced to Heracles (1153 – 1260). —
The Argonautica 2008
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Arrival among the Mysians: rape of Hylas, which is announced to Heracles (1153 – 1260). —
The Argonautica 2008
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-- Arrival among the Mysians: rape of Hylas, which is announced to Heracles (1153-1260).
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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"No, they're not, but they are own cousins to them; they are the grandchildren of old Mr. Tree Toad! and they are called Hylas!" said
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"Hylas," and just before he set out for Egypt he had another volume of poems ready for the press.
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Some of the smaller poems in his volume border on the sensuous; and in "Hylas" he has paid a tribute to ancient fable worthy of its refined inventors; but scenes of moral and natural sublimity are those in which he succeeds best, and by them he should be characterized.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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'Hylas', and again 'Hylas', he calls through the long wilderness; the woods reply, and wandering echo mocks his voice. or (i.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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The finished painting shows the story from Jason and the Argonauts, where Hylas, fetching water for Heracles, comes upon a spring inhabited by alluring nymphs, who beckon him to his watery death.
Archive 2010-06-01 James Gurney 2010
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