The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... brave Ulysses burns my heart , Who long time suffers griefs far off from friends ; On sea - girt isle , where ocean's centre is ; 50 4 With the epithet , " faultless , " in the text ; this must mean as to beauty of form he was morally ...
... brave Ulysses burns my heart , Who long time suffers griefs far off from friends ; On sea - girt isle , where ocean's centre is ; 50 4 With the epithet , " faultless , " in the text ; this must mean as to beauty of form he was morally ...
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... brave Anchiälus The son , and rules the sailor Taphians . " Though speaking thus , he knew the Goddess well : The suitors then to dance and pleasant song 420 Turn'd for delight awaiting eventide . And unto them regaling , Hesperus came ...
... brave Anchiälus The son , and rules the sailor Taphians . " Though speaking thus , he knew the Goddess well : The suitors then to dance and pleasant song 420 Turn'd for delight awaiting eventide . And unto them regaling , Hesperus came ...
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... brave sire I've lost , Your chief , who was as father kind to you : And one far greater ; that soon all the house Will o'erthrow , and destroy our sustenance ; For suitors press my mother ' gainst her will , Sons of those men , who are ...
... brave sire I've lost , Your chief , who was as father kind to you : And one far greater ; that soon all the house Will o'erthrow , and destroy our sustenance ; For suitors press my mother ' gainst her will , Sons of those men , who are ...
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... brave Ulysses ' friend , 240 Who sailing trusted all his house to him , For all t'obey him ; guardian left of all ; Who now harangued them breathing kindly thoughts ; “ Hear , what I speak , ye men of Ithaca ! Let sceptred King be ...
... brave Ulysses ' friend , 240 Who sailing trusted all his house to him , For all t'obey him ; guardian left of all ; Who now harangued them breathing kindly thoughts ; “ Hear , what I speak , ye men of Ithaca ! Let sceptred King be ...
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... brave soul is instill'd into thee , Such as he was in exploits and in speech , Then will the journey not be vain to thee ! But if thou ' rt not the son of him , and of Penelope , then I've no hopes that thou Wilt carry out the things ...
... brave soul is instill'd into thee , Such as he was in exploits and in speech , Then will the journey not be vain to thee ! But if thou ' rt not the son of him , and of Penelope , then I've no hopes that thou Wilt carry out the things ...
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Achilles Agamemnon Ajax Alcinous answer unto answer'd appear'd bade bear beauteous brave bright call'd Calypso cave chief Cicones Circe Circe's comrades Cyclops dark daughter dear death deeds drink e'en Euryclea Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fair fate father feast friends gave gifts goddess gods Greeks grief griev'd guest Hades hands hast hath hear heard heart herald Hermes Icarius immortal isle Ithaca Jove Jove's king Laërtes Laodamas lofty maids meat Menelaus midst mind Minerva minstrel native land Nausicaa ne'er Neleus Neptune Nestor nymph o'er oars oxen palace Pallas perish'd Phæacian Pisistratus plac'd pour'd pray'd Pylos reach'd replied robe rock round sail sail'd sailors Scylla sheep ship shore sire sitting sleep slew spake spoke stood stranger suitors sweet swift swift ship sword tears Telemachus tell thee therein things thou thou'rt thro Tiresias Troy Ulysses vers'd vex'd wash'd waves wife wind wine words
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Page 135 - These berries are much esteemed by the natives, who convert them into a sort of bread, by exposing them for some days to the sun, and afterwards pounding them gently in a wooden mortar, until the farinaceous part of the berry is separated from the stone. This meal is then mixed with a little water, and formed into cakes, which, when dried in the sun, resemble in colour and flavour the sweetest gingerbread. The stones...
Page 210 - ... advanced their claims ; the former depending on his pre-eminence in arms ; the latter, on the services which his inventive genius had rendered : the assembled princes awarded the splendid prize to Ulysses. Ajax was so much mortified at this, that he went mad, and in his fury attacked the herds and flocks of the camp, mistaking them for the Grecian leaders, by whom he thought himself so deeply injured. On recovering his senses, and seeing to what excesses he had been transported, he slew himself...
Page 168 - A measure employed by the ancients, equal to the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger.
Page 62 - His notoriety is chiefly derived from events subsequent to the close of the Iliad. At the sack of Troy he offered violence to Cassandra in the temple of Pallas. Indignant at the profanation, the goddess raised a tempest, which wrecked his vessel on its voyage home, and many others of the Grecian fleet. Ajax escaped to a rock, and might have been preserved, but that he blasphe...