Libera, who is the Deity that we call Proserpine, was carried away from the Grove of Enna. From Wordnik.com. [The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII] Reference
But why is she called Proserpine?. From Wordnik.com. [Melbourne House] Reference
Visitors can also fly to the Whitsundays airport in Proserpine which is often cheaper. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
I hope my loss by the 'Proserpine' will turn out not to exceed £600, as many things have been saved. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Original Family Documents] Reference
Fair Proserpine -- let me adore thy bright divinity. From Wordnik.com. [The Beaux-Stratagem] Reference
King of Darkness himself and his fair wife, Proserpine. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Proserpine temple of Corinthian order, 15; temple of, 200. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Proserpine, full of triumph, prepared for her return, when lo!. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
The story of Persephone -- of Proserpine -- is a story of spring. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Proserpine and her mother, or their subtler connexion with Ephesian. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Initiation was, in reality, a consecration to Ceres and Proserpine. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy] Reference
The mythological sense of the fable is this: the name of Proserpine, or. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
Proserpine and the fair nymphs who were her companions spent their happy days. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
This hath beautiful Proserpine ordained to be borne to her for her proper gift. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference
Oh, honey-sweet Proserpine, let us have no more masters than the one we've got!. From Wordnik.com. [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference
Proserpine who returns to her mother is the corn which rises again to support mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference
At Eleusis, the cella of Ceres and Proserpine, of vast size, was completed to the roof by. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
And an admirable passage is this, too, from the same poem, -- 'The Search after Proserpine'. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference
For six months of the year she stayed, and gods and men rejoiced at the bringing back of Proserpine. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
Proserpine who is carried off to the lower world is the seed corn, that, for a time, is buried in the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference
To her Proserpine gave the box of precious ointment that Aphrodite described, and gladly she hastened homeward. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
And what is else not to be overcome ... 'and finish with the exquisite close to the loss of Proserpine, the loss. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
Poets declared that Proserpine became jealous of Cocytus's daughter, Minthe, whom she transformed into the plant. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
Proserpine is represented under the form of a beautiful woman, enthroned, having something stern and melancholy in her aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
The lady who takes the part of Proserpine should be quite handsome, with fine, regular features, a high forehead, and a good form. From Wordnik.com. [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference
Ovid says they accompanied Proserpine when she was carried off, and that the gods granted them wings to go in quest of that goddess. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
And to Proserpine then came the living remembrance of all the joys of her girlhood by the blue Ægean Sea in the fair island of Sicily. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
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