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... Bright sandals had she bound now b'neath her feet , Ambrosial , golden , bearing her o'er sea , Or boundless earth , swift as the breath of winds : Then took she up her spear with brazen point , Vast , stubborn , pondrous , which she ...
... Bright sandals had she bound now b'neath her feet , Ambrosial , golden , bearing her o'er sea , Or boundless earth , swift as the breath of winds : Then took she up her spear with brazen point , Vast , stubborn , pondrous , which she ...
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... bright one : I'll make thee a fit return ! " Minerva , speaking thus , was gone from him : Bird - like she flew from sight : then in his heart She boldness put , his sire too brought to mind : He pond'ring inwardly , yet more and more ...
... bright one : I'll make thee a fit return ! " Minerva , speaking thus , was gone from him : Bird - like she flew from sight : then in his heart She boldness put , his sire too brought to mind : He pond'ring inwardly , yet more and more ...
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Homerus. THE NURSE EURYCLEA . 15 Of Ops , did bear bright torches lighting him : Laërtes ' wealth the purchase made of her : For twenty oxen while she was a girl : 430 And honor'd her alike with his chaste wife ; But shunn'd his wife's ...
Homerus. THE NURSE EURYCLEA . 15 Of Ops , did bear bright torches lighting him : Laërtes ' wealth the purchase made of her : For twenty oxen while she was a girl : 430 And honor'd her alike with his chaste wife ; But shunn'd his wife's ...
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... bright hair'd Grecian dames of yore , Tyro , Alcmēne , and Mycēnē fair , None skill'd in arts like to Penelope ; But this thing hath she plann'd now for no good , These therefore must so long consume your wealth , As she still holds the ...
... bright hair'd Grecian dames of yore , Tyro , Alcmēne , and Mycēnē fair , None skill'd in arts like to Penelope ; But this thing hath she plann'd now for no good , These therefore must so long consume your wealth , As she still holds the ...
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... bright Phoebus there the pilot slew , 280 Of Menelaüs , with his gentle darts ; Still holding the ship's rudder in his hand ; Phrontes , Onetor's son , excelling all In governing a ship , when storms invade : So was he kept there , tho ...
... bright Phoebus there the pilot slew , 280 Of Menelaüs , with his gentle darts ; Still holding the ship's rudder in his hand ; Phrontes , Onetor's son , excelling all In governing a ship , when storms invade : So was he kept there , tho ...
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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...