The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... departing straight Myself will visit Ithaca meanwhile , To stir his son and courage breathe in him . That all the Greeks to council having call'd , He may forbid the suitors his sire's house , Who slaughter still his oxen and his flocks ...
... departing straight Myself will visit Ithaca meanwhile , To stir his son and courage breathe in him . That all the Greeks to council having call'd , He may forbid the suitors his sire's house , Who slaughter still his oxen and his flocks ...
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... depart , each one unto his own , But for thy mother , if she wills to wed , Let her return to her rich 13father's house , Her nuptials they'll with dowried gifts prepare , 275 Ample as meet with child much lov'd to go : Thyself will I ...
... depart , each one unto his own , But for thy mother , if she wills to wed , Let her return to her rich 13father's house , Her nuptials they'll with dowried gifts prepare , 275 Ample as meet with child much lov'd to go : Thyself will I ...
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... depart , Till having wash'd , with new joys in thy heart , Thou mayst return on board with gift in hand , 310 A ... departs : The minstrel was then singing ; silent they Sat listening : ' twas the Greeks sad voyage home From Troy , he ...
... depart , Till having wash'd , with new joys in thy heart , Thou mayst return on board with gift in hand , 310 A ... departs : The minstrel was then singing ; silent they Sat listening : ' twas the Greeks sad voyage home From Troy , he ...
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... Depart ye from my house , cook other feasts , 140 145 Spending your own wealth , giving feasts in turns : But if to you this thing more fitting seems , That you the stores waste freely of one man Devour them ! but I will the Gods invoke ...
... Depart ye from my house , cook other feasts , 140 145 Spending your own wealth , giving feasts in turns : But if to you this thing more fitting seems , That you the stores waste freely of one man Devour them ! but I will the Gods invoke ...
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... carry out the things that thou design'st ; Few sons there are their father's counterpart ! The most are worse ; but still a few there are 295 300 TELEMACHUS PREPARES TO DEPART . Ev'n better than their sires 24 BOOK II . THE ODYSSEY .
... carry out the things that thou design'st ; Few sons there are their father's counterpart ! The most are worse ; but still a few there are 295 300 TELEMACHUS PREPARES TO DEPART . Ev'n better than their sires 24 BOOK II . THE ODYSSEY .
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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...