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... winds : Then took she up her spear with brazen point , Vast , stubborn , pondrous , which she slays men with ; Heroes with whom the child of Jove is wroth : From heaven's high hill she having gone with speed , Stood by Ulysses ' porch ...
... winds : Then took she up her spear with brazen point , Vast , stubborn , pondrous , which she slays men with ; Heroes with whom the child of Jove is wroth : From heaven's high hill she having gone with speed , Stood by Ulysses ' porch ...
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... winds breezes these flew round some time With outstretch'd wings , by one anothers side ; But when they o'er that clamorous council came , 155 They round in circles flapp'd their pow'rful wings ; And look'd on all their heads ...
... winds breezes these flew round some time With outstretch'd wings , by one anothers side ; But when they o'er that clamorous council came , 155 They round in circles flapp'd their pow'rful wings ; And look'd on all their heads ...
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... wind ; 455 Zephyr shrill murm'ring oe'r the purple sea , Telemachus his comrades cheering , bade To raise the tackling ; they attend to him , Within its hollow fix'd they the fir mast , And bound it firmly down with hempen ropes ; 460 ...
... wind ; 455 Zephyr shrill murm'ring oe'r the purple sea , Telemachus his comrades cheering , bade To raise the tackling ; they attend to him , Within its hollow fix'd they the fir mast , And bound it firmly down with hempen ropes ; 460 ...
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... wind ne'er dropt , since first sent forth to blow : Unknown I landed , nor have heard at all What Greeks were sav'd , nor who have been destroy'd : But whatsoe'er I sitting in my house , 185 NESTOR AND TELEMACHUS . Have heard I'll tell ...
... wind ne'er dropt , since first sent forth to blow : Unknown I landed , nor have heard at all What Greeks were sav'd , nor who have been destroy'd : But whatsoe'er I sitting in my house , 185 NESTOR AND TELEMACHUS . Have heard I'll tell ...
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... winds drove vast waves on its left point , By Phæstum small stones can repel great waves ; These ships drove to that place ; the mariners Nigh perished ; waves against rocks broke the ship ; But five blue ships the wind and water then ...
... winds drove vast waves on its left point , By Phæstum small stones can repel great waves ; These ships drove to that place ; the mariners Nigh perished ; waves against rocks broke the ship ; But five blue ships the wind and water then ...
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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...