The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... death which brings long sleep shall take him off : Lest some Greek woman blame me in this place , If he , once rich , should lie without a shroud : Our generous minds then listened to her words . In day time weav'd she that large web ...
... death which brings long sleep shall take him off : Lest some Greek woman blame me in this place , If he , once rich , should lie without a shroud : Our generous minds then listened to her words . In day time weav'd she that large web ...
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... death ; With their claws , mangling their own cheeks and necks ; They then flew off both through the house , and town . 160 All wonder'd at the birds , beholding them , And ponder'd what deeds were to come to pass . Then aged ...
... death ; With their claws , mangling their own cheeks and necks ; They then flew off both through the house , and town . 160 All wonder'd at the birds , beholding them , And ponder'd what deeds were to come to pass . Then aged ...
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... death to all of you ! And many others too will ills befall , Of us who dwell in westward Ithaca , Let us much ponder , how to curb these men , But , far best , let them cease of their own selves : 175 Not blind , but knowing well , I ...
... death to all of you ! And many others too will ills befall , Of us who dwell in westward Ithaca , Let us much ponder , how to curb these men , But , far best , let them cease of their own selves : 175 Not blind , but knowing well , I ...
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Homerus. Desiring him ; but here would he meet with A grievous death , so many combating : Thou hast not spoken well ! but come now all Ye citizens , disperse each to his work ! Mentor and Halithernes will for him The journey hasten who ...
Homerus. Desiring him ; but here would he meet with A grievous death , so many combating : Thou hast not spoken well ! but come now all Ye citizens , disperse each to his work ! Mentor and Halithernes will for him The journey hasten who ...
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... death and black fate , So near they all will perish in one day ! Thy purpos'd journey won't be long delay'd , For such companion am I unto thee , Thy father's friend of old , who will equip Swift ship for thee , and go with thee myself ...
... death and black fate , So near they all will perish in one day ! Thy purpos'd journey won't be long delay'd , For such companion am I unto thee , Thy father's friend of old , who will equip Swift ship for thee , and go with thee myself ...
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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...