The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... of kings ! O Father ! Saturn's son ! If this thing pleases now th ' immortal gods , That to his home that chief should back return , The herald Hermes then will we dispatch , 70 75 80 To Ogygia's isle , that with the swiftest speed Our.
... of kings ! O Father ! Saturn's son ! If this thing pleases now th ' immortal gods , That to his home that chief should back return , The herald Hermes then will we dispatch , 70 75 80 To Ogygia's isle , that with the swiftest speed Our.
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... herald came in oft to pour out wine , 140 The daring suitors enter'd then and sat In order upon couches and rich seats , 145 The heralds pour'd out water on their hands , These heralds , by their sacred character , served to check the ...
... herald came in oft to pour out wine , 140 The daring suitors enter'd then and sat In order upon couches and rich seats , 145 The heralds pour'd out water on their hands , These heralds , by their sacred character , served to check the ...
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... herald then did place In Phemius ' hands , who sung then by constraint ; The strings light fing'ring , a sweet song he sung ; Telemachus meanwhile unto Minerva speaks . His head close to her that none else might hear , " Tell me , dear ...
... herald then did place In Phemius ' hands , who sung then by constraint ; The strings light fing'ring , a sweet song he sung ; Telemachus meanwhile unto Minerva speaks . His head close to her that none else might hear , " Tell me , dear ...
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... herald truly wise : Then first of all that old man he address'd ; " He's not far off , him quickly you may know , 40 Who gather'd these : much sorrow comes to him : I've not heard news of army coming here , To tell to you , when hearing ...
... herald truly wise : Then first of all that old man he address'd ; " He's not far off , him quickly you may know , 40 Who gather'd these : much sorrow comes to him : I've not heard news of army coming here , To tell to you , when hearing ...
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... herald Medon told her ; who had heard Outside the hall ; but now they scheme within ; He went to tell it to Penelope , 695 But that fair queen address'd him drawing near ; Oh ! wherefore herald have they sent thee here ? To the ...
... herald Medon told her ; who had heard Outside the hall ; but now they scheme within ; He went to tell it to Penelope , 695 But that fair queen address'd him drawing near ; Oh ! wherefore herald have they sent thee here ? To the ...
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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...