A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 140
ren to bedevoured by this insatiable monster. Terrible as this was, it Avasbetter than that he should come near them, for his breath poisoned ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 121 the air for a great distance about him, and all who breathed it, per-ished from its pestilential effects. The children were chosen by… … (Raphael—Louvre.) St. George of Cappadocia. the kingdom, that she might be spared; but the people said that asit was by his own edict that their children had been sacrificed, therewas no reason for allowing him to withhold his own, and tlieythreatened to take the princess by force, if she was not…
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