"Moly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Enula campana has been identified with the herb Moly (of Homer), "apo tou moleuein, from ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... But of divine effect. Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon; And yet more med'cinal is it than that moly That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave; He call'd it haemony, and gave it me, And bade me keep it as of sovran use 'Gainst all enchantments, mildew, blast, or damp, Or ghastly furies' apparition. And now I find it true; for by this means I knew the foul enchantress, though disguised, Enter'd ...
— Bunyan Characters (Second Series) • Alexander Whyte
... Consultations, Julius Alexandrinus, Lelius, Egubinus, and others. [4135]Bernardus Penottus prefers his herba solis, or Dutch sindaw, before all the rest in this disease, "and will admit of no herb upon the earth to be comparable to it." It excels Homer's moly, cures this, falling sickness, and almost all other infirmities. The same Penottus speaks of an excellent balm out of Aponensis, which, taken to the quantity of three drops in a cup of wine, [4136]"will cause ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior
... [8] of amaranth and moly, How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly) With half-dropt eyelids still, Beneath a heaven dark and holy, To watch the long bright river drawing slowly His waters from the purple hill— To hear the dewy echoes calling From cave to cave thro' the ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... showed me a certain herb, whose root was black, but the flower white as milk. 'Moly,' the gods call it, and very hard it is for mortal man to find; but to the gods all ...
— The Story Of The Odyssey • The Rev. Alfred J. Church
... {Moly de min kaleousi theoi, chalnpon de t' oryssein Andrasi ge thnetoisi theoi, de te ...
— Rookwood • William Harrison Ainsworth
... cup refus'd. "Which had he not avoided, he as one "The bristly herd had join'd; nor had our chief, "The great Ulysses, by his tale inform'd "To Circe come, avenger of our woe. "To him Cyllenius, messenger of peace "A milk-white flower presented; by the gods "Call'd Moly: from a sable root it-springs. "Safe in the gift, and in th' advice of heaven, "He enters Circe's dome; and her repels, "Coaxing to taste th' invidious cup; his head "To stroke attempting with her potent ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid |
