The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... spake , " How much , alas ! do mortals blame the gods ! Their ills from us spring , say they ; but mankind Endure griefs for their own deeds , not of fate : As ' gainst all right , Ægysthus hath join'd with Atreides ' wife , and slain ...
... spake , " How much , alas ! do mortals blame the gods ! Their ills from us spring , say they ; but mankind Endure griefs for their own deeds , not of fate : As ' gainst all right , Ægysthus hath join'd with Atreides ' wife , and slain ...
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... spake these swift - wing'd words , addressing her : “ Hail stranger ! right good welcome shalt thou have ! And after supper tell thy business . He then led on : Minerva followed him . 125 When he and his high guest were in the house ...
... spake these swift - wing'd words , addressing her : “ Hail stranger ! right good welcome shalt thou have ! And after supper tell thy business . He then led on : Minerva followed him . 125 When he and his high guest were in the house ...
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... spake to the goddess thus : " Most truthful , stranger , I'll relate to thee ; My mother tells me so , I know it not ; For no one hath his father known himself ; O that I were of happier man the son ; 215 Whom old age midst of his ...
... spake to the goddess thus : " Most truthful , stranger , I'll relate to thee ; My mother tells me so , I know it not ; For no one hath his father known himself ; O that I were of happier man the son ; 215 Whom old age midst of his ...
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... spake these words to him : — 250 " Good gods ! thou much must want thy absent sire , Who quickly would his hands on these men lay ; For should he stand with helmet , lance and shield , Within the first gates which approach his house ...
... spake these words to him : — 250 " Good gods ! thou much must want thy absent sire , Who quickly would his hands on these men lay ; For should he stand with helmet , lance and shield , Within the first gates which approach his house ...
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... spake : Antinöus made answer unto him : " The Gods themselves sure teach thee very much , To vainly boast , and boldly to harangue ; O may not Jove thee King in Ithaca 385 Appoint , though by descent thy heritage ! " Telemachus made ...
... spake : Antinöus made answer unto him : " The Gods themselves sure teach thee very much , To vainly boast , and boldly to harangue ; O may not Jove thee King in Ithaca 385 Appoint , though by descent thy heritage ! " Telemachus made ...
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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...