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The builder, Daedalus, was a genius. (source)Daedalus = This character is named for a famous person in Greek mythology (a clever Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos and who fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus)
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Miss Clarts got tears in her eyes when she told us the story of Icarus, how his wings had melted when he flew too close to the sun, and how he had dropped like a stone past his father, Daedalus, into the sea. (source)Daedalus = Greek mythology: clever Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos and who fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus
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Daedalus' face had gone soft as ripe fruit, his eyes full and shining.† (source)
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It was his father, Daedalus, who crafted the wings, who knew how to get off Crete and safely reach the mainland, and who in fact flew to safety.† (source)
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So deceptive was the invention, that Daedalus himself, when he had finished it, was scarcely able to find his way back to the entrance.† (source)
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Nor should it be forgotten that long before Daedalus appeared in Attica and with his wooden statues so transformed sculpture as to make possible the schools of Corinth and AEgina, and their ultimate triumphs the Poecile and Capitolium—long before the age of Daedalus, I say, two Israelites, Bezaleel and Aholiab, the master-builders of the first tabernacle, said to have been skilled 'in all manner of workmanship,' wrought the cherubim of the mercy-seat above the ark.† (source)
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One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than one could understand one's position in the city; above the unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues there reigned the confusion of caverns; Daedalus backed up Babel.† (source)Daedalus = Greek mythology: clever Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos and who fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus
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Furthermore he wrought a green, like that which Daedalus once made in Cnossus for lovely Ariadne.† (source)
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And he admiring much, as he was void Of wisdom, will'd me to declare to him The secret of mine art: and only hence, Because I made him not a Daedalus, Prevail'd on one suppos'd his sire to burn me.† (source)
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There are more amazing ideas here than in Daedalus's workshop.† (source)
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Daedalus is the base; Orpheus is the wall; Hermes is the edifice,—that is all.† (source)
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'Tis true I said to him, speaking in jest, That I could rise by flight into the air, And he who had conceit, but little wit, Would have me show to him the art; and only Because no Daedalus I made him, made me Be burned by one who held him as his son.† (source)
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There, too, the skilful artist's hand had wrought With curious workmanship, a mazy dance, Like that which Daedalus in Cnossus erst At fair-hair'd Ariadne's bidding fram'd.† (source)
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Daedalus put his hand to his son's shoulder.† (source)
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Few stories from Greek mythology capture the imagination like that of Daedalus and Icarus: the ingenious father's attempt to save his son from a tyrant as well as from his own invention (the labyrinth) by coming up with an even more marvelous creation; the solemn parental warning ignored in a burst of youthful exuberance; the fall from a great height; a father's terrible grief and guilt.† (source)
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The story is told, for example, of the great Minos, king of the island empire of Crete in the period of its commercial supremacy: how he hired the celebrated artist-craftsman Daedalus to invent and construct for him a labyrinth, in which to hide something of which the palace was at once ashamed and afraid.† (source)
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