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Achilles addrest Alcinous Antinous arms Atrides attend beneath blest blood brave breast Calypso ceas'd chief coast coursers cries crown'd cry'd Cyclops dæmon death deed deep descends dire divine dome dreadful Dulichium Eumæus Euryclea Eurylochus Eurymachus Ev'n eyes fair falchion fame fate father feast flies goddess gods grac'd grace grief guest hand haste hear heart Heaven hero Homer honours Icarius Iliad Ithaca Jove king labours Laërtes land lord lov'd maid Melanthius mighty mind monarch native Neptune night nymph o'er ODYSSEY palace Pallas peers Phemius Pisistratus plac'd plain pleas'd poem prince Pylos queen race rage realms rejoin'd reply'd rise roll'd round royal sacred sails sate shade shining shore sire skies soft sorrow soul spoke stranger suitors swain Swift tears Telemachus thee Theoclymenus thou throne toils train Ulysses vengeance vessel wandering waves wine woes wretch youth
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Page 69 - Fill the wide circle of the eternal year : Stern winter smiles on that auspicious clime : The fields are florid with unfading prime ; From the bleak pole no winds inclement blow, Mould the round hail, or flake the fleecy snow ; But from the breezy deep the blest inhale The fragrant murmurs of the western gale.
Page 3 - Wand'ring from clime to clime, observant stray'd, Their manners noted, and their states survey'd. On stormy seas unnumber'd toils he bore, Safe with his friends to gain his natal shore: Vain toils!
Page 110 - Four acres was the allotted space of ground, Fenced with a green enclosure all around. Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould : The reddening apple ripens here to gold. Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate glows : The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year.
Page 196 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page 202 - Nigh the cursed shore, and listen to the lay. No more that wretch shall view the joys of life, His blooming offspring, or his beauteous wife ! In verdant meads they sport ; and wide around Lie human bones, that whiten all the ground : The ground polluted floats with human gore, And human carnage taints the dreadful shore.
Page 86 - And form a raft and build the rising ship, Sublime to bear thee o'er the gloomy deep. To store the vessel let the care be mine, With water from the rock, and rosy wine, And life-sustaining bread, and fair array, And prosperous gales to waft thee on the way.
Page 36 - Not added years on years my task could close, The long historian of my country's woes; Back to thy native islands might'st thou sail, And leave half-heard the melancholy tale. Nine painful years on that detested shore; What stratagems we form'd, what toils we bore! Still labouring on, till scarce at last we found Great Jove propitious, and our conquest crown'd.
Page 169 - The table in fair order spread, They heap the glittering canisters with bread: Viands of various kinds allure the taste, Of choicest sort and savour, rich repast!
Page 82 - The god who mounts the winged winds Fast to his feet the golden pinions binds, That high through fields of air his flight sustain O'er the wide earth, and o'er the boundless main. He grasps the wand that causes sleep to fly, Or in soft...
Page 58 - Temper'd with drugs of sovereign use, to assuage The boiling bosom of tumultuous rage ; To clear the cloudy front of wrinkled Care, And dry the tearful sluices of Despair : Charm'd with that virtuous draught, the...