Chapter 1 of The Death of the Gods is here in full — 64 sentences across 13 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter I
Chapter 1 of The Death of the Gods is here in full — 64 sentences across 13 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
All obvious errors have been corrected. Archaic and alternate spellings have been retained. =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian. 12^o. With 8 Illustrations ----Artist's Edition, with 64 illustrations.
Chapter 1 of The Death of the Gods is here in full — 64 sentences across 13 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/12 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
every second one of a series
From this reading “Archaic and alternate spellings have been retained.”
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
From this reading “Archaic and alternate spellings have been retained.”
possessive form of “artist” — a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
From this reading “With 8 Illustrations ----Artist's Edition, with 64 illustrations.”
endowed with authority
From this reading “=THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.”
a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
From this reading “=THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.”
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
From this reading “=THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.”
(New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion
From this reading “=THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.”
plural of “spelling” — forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
From this reading “Archaic and alternate spellings have been retained.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading 12^o.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading With 8 Illustrations ----Artist's Edition, with 64 illustrations.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading With 8 Illustrations ----Artist's Edition, with 64 illustrations.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All obvious errors have been corrected.
every second one of a series
From this reading Archaic and alternate spellings have been retained.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading Archaic and alternate spellings have been retained.
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
From this reading Archaic and alternate spellings have been retained.
possessive form of “artist” — a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
From this reading With 8 Illustrations ----Artist's Edition, with 64 illustrations.
endowed with authority
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
the past participle of “be”
From this reading All obvious errors have been corrected.
having something undesirable neutralized
From this reading All obvious errors have been corrected.
an official prosecutor for a judicial district
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published
From this reading With 8 Illustrations ----Artist's Edition, with 64 illustrations.
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
plural of “error” — a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
From this reading All obvious errors have been corrected.
a person who goes before or announces the coming of another
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
plural of “god” — the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading All obvious errors have been corrected.
plural of “illustration” — artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
From this reading With 8 Illustrations ----Artist's Edition, with 64 illustrations.
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading 12^o.
easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind
From this reading All obvious errors have been corrected.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
(New Testament) the rising of Christ on the third day after the Crucifixion
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
continued in your keeping or use or memory
From this reading Archaic and alternate spellings have been retained.
a relationship between two lovers
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
a native or inhabitant of Russia
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
plural of “spelling” — forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
From this reading Archaic and alternate spellings have been retained.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading =THE ROMANCE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI: THE FORERUNNER.= (The Resurrection of the Gods.) Authorized English Version from the Russian.
in the company of; together with
From this reading With 8 Illustrations ----Artist's Edition, with 64 illustrations.
Chapter 1 of The Death of the Gods by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky holds 64 sentences, grouped into 13 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 64 sentences of The Death of the Gods, unabridged, divided into 13 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of The Death of the Gods by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 64 sentences, grouped into 13 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 13 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 13 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
Common questions about reading The Death of the Gods by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Yes. All 0 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #? are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Project Gutenberg eBook #?, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
About 5 minutes of reading across 0 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through The Death of the Gods section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 0 chapters of The Death of the Gods to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in The Death of the Gods, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
