The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Volume 11869 |
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... told him , but persuaded not , Advising good ; -full penalty he pays . " 25 25 30 335 40 Minerva then made answer unto him , " Highest of Kings ! O Father ! Saturn's son ! He truly bears a doom that ' s well deserv'd , 45 So perish ...
... told him , but persuaded not , Advising good ; -full penalty he pays . " 25 25 30 335 40 Minerva then made answer unto him , " Highest of Kings ! O Father ! Saturn's son ! He truly bears a doom that ' s well deserv'd , 45 So perish ...
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... told it us ; We then found her unravelling the robe , And much against her will she finish'd it . But thus the suitors answer thee , that thou May know thyself , and all these men may know ; 115 Thy mother send away and bid her wed ...
... told it us ; We then found her unravelling the robe , And much against her will she finish'd it . But thus the suitors answer thee , that thou May know thyself , and all these men may know ; 115 Thy mother send away and bid her wed ...
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... told so much of prophesy , Not fir'd so much the enrag'd Telemachus A gift expecting , should he give you one : But I now tell thee what shall come to pass , If thou so skill'd in much and olden lore , A younger man trick'd by thy words ...
... told so much of prophesy , Not fir'd so much the enrag'd Telemachus A gift expecting , should he give you one : But I now tell thee what shall come to pass , If thou so skill'd in much and olden lore , A younger man trick'd by thy words ...
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... compare him , as thou dost , dear wife ; For such his feet are , and such too his hands , Such too the cast of eyes ; the head ; curl'd hair ; Besides - Ulysses having call'd to mind , 160 I told what sufferings with great toil he bore ,
... compare him , as thou dost , dear wife ; For such his feet are , and such too his hands , Such too the cast of eyes ; the head ; curl'd hair ; Besides - Ulysses having call'd to mind , 160 I told what sufferings with great toil he bore ,
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Homerus. I told what sufferings with great toil he bore , For me , when down his cheeks flow'd bitter tears , And his robe's folds he held before his eyes . " Pisistratus next spoke thus unto him : " O Menelaus , offspring of great Jove ...
Homerus. I told what sufferings with great toil he bore , For me , when down his cheeks flow'd bitter tears , And his robe's folds he held before his eyes . " Pisistratus next spoke thus unto him : " O Menelaus , offspring of great Jove ...
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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...