The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... cast , tears freely pouring forth ; Then pity seiz'd on all assembled there . And all were silent , and none other dar'd To answer him with harsh and bitter words : Only Antinous then spake to him : " Telemachus ! vain boaster ! most ...
... cast , tears freely pouring forth ; Then pity seiz'd on all assembled there . And all were silent , and none other dar'd To answer him with harsh and bitter words : Only Antinous then spake to him : " Telemachus ! vain boaster ! most ...
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... casting figures in metal , and of bas relief work in gold and silver ; originally it was applied to the art of working basrelievo or flat sculpture on wood , marble , & c . , with the chisel : the term , in this sense , is therefore not ...
... casting figures in metal , and of bas relief work in gold and silver ; originally it was applied to the art of working basrelievo or flat sculpture on wood , marble , & c . , with the chisel : the term , in this sense , is therefore not ...
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... cast in the fire ; libations made : When they had drunk unto their heart's content , Then Pallas and Telemachus desir'd Together both to go down to the ship . 345 But Nestor kept them , thus reproving them ; " May Jove forbid this , and ...
... cast in the fire ; libations made : When they had drunk unto their heart's content , Then Pallas and Telemachus desir'd Together both to go down to the ship . 345 But Nestor kept them , thus reproving them ; " May Jove forbid this , and ...
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... cast down ' spelt ' grain and white barley mixt ; And rest the chariot against the wall : The guests they led within the house , and they With wonder view'd the palace of the king : 45 For as the brightness of the sun or moon , The ...
... cast down ' spelt ' grain and white barley mixt ; And rest the chariot against the wall : The guests they led within the house , and they With wonder view'd the palace of the king : 45 For as the brightness of the sun or moon , The ...
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... compare him , as thou dost , dear wife ; For such his feet are , and such too his hands , Such too the cast of eyes ; the head ; curl'd hair ; Besides - Ulysses having call'd to mind , 160 I told what sufferings with great toil he bore ,
... compare him , as thou dost , dear wife ; For such his feet are , and such too his hands , Such too the cast of eyes ; the head ; curl'd hair ; Besides - Ulysses having call'd to mind , 160 I told what sufferings with great toil he bore ,
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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...