The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... hast , 280 And go in search of tidings of thy sire ; If men can tell , or thou can'st rumour hear From Jupiter , chief oracle to men : To Pylos first , to Nestor the divine , To Sparta thence , where Menelaüs dwells ; 285 For he return ...
... hast , 280 And go in search of tidings of thy sire ; If men can tell , or thou can'st rumour hear From Jupiter , chief oracle to men : To Pylos first , to Nestor the divine , To Sparta thence , where Menelaüs dwells ; 285 For he return ...
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... hast thou said ? disgracing us ? forsooth Thou would'st a black stain cast on us ! but we Th ' Achæan suitors are not blamable , 65 70 70 75 80 85 But thy dear mother who in cunning is 90 Much skilled indeed ; for now the third year ' s ...
... hast thou said ? disgracing us ? forsooth Thou would'st a black stain cast on us ! but we Th ' Achæan suitors are not blamable , 65 70 70 75 80 85 But thy dear mother who in cunning is 90 Much skilled indeed ; for now the third year ' s ...
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... hast thou spoken , stirring up these men To curb us ! but ' twill be a hard task troth , Should there be more to combat for our feast ! For if the chief Ulysses his own self , Arriving now should think to drive out doors , The noble ...
... hast thou spoken , stirring up these men To curb us ! but ' twill be a hard task troth , Should there be more to combat for our feast ! For if the chief Ulysses his own self , Arriving now should think to drive out doors , The noble ...
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... 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 are unto him Old friends as to his father once they were . 270 But he , I think , will although ...
... 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 are unto him Old friends as to his father once they were . 270 But he , I think , will although ...
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... the sails drawn by the bulls ' hide thongs ; The wind the belly of the mainsail swell'd , The splashy wave resounds loud round the keel , The vessel coursing on : she swiftly ran Through the blue waves , straight hast'ning on her way.
... the sails drawn by the bulls ' hide thongs ; The wind the belly of the mainsail swell'd , The splashy wave resounds loud round the keel , The vessel coursing on : she swiftly ran Through the blue waves , straight hast'ning on her way.
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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...