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The Odyssey William Lucas Collins. EDITED BY THE REV . W. LUCAS COLLINS , M.A. HOMER THE ODYSSEY The Volumes published of this Series contain HOMER : THE Ancient Classics for English Readers.
The Odyssey William Lucas Collins. EDITED BY THE REV . W. LUCAS COLLINS , M.A. HOMER THE ODYSSEY The Volumes published of this Series contain HOMER : THE Ancient Classics for English Readers.
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The Odyssey William Lucas Collins. The Volumes published of this Series contain HOMER : THE ILIAD , BY THE EDITOR . HOMER : THE ODYSSEY ... Volume will be published Quarterly , price 2s . 6d . HOMER THE ODYSSEY BY THE REV . W. LUCAS COLLINS.
The Odyssey William Lucas Collins. The Volumes published of this Series contain HOMER : THE ILIAD , BY THE EDITOR . HOMER : THE ODYSSEY ... Volume will be published Quarterly , price 2s . 6d . HOMER THE ODYSSEY BY THE REV . W. LUCAS COLLINS.
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... volume which does not profess to be written for critical scholars , to discuss a question on which they are so far from being agreed . But it may be satisfactory to assure the reader who has neither leisure nor inclination to enter into ...
... volume which does not profess to be written for critical scholars , to discuss a question on which they are so far from being agreed . But it may be satisfactory to assure the reader who has neither leisure nor inclination to enter into ...
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... volume of social history ; for the knight , in the particular instance , was but riding quietly along , and there ought to have been no reason why the " churls " should dread the sight of a professed redresser of grievances . But even ...
... volume of social history ; for the knight , in the particular instance , was but riding quietly along , and there ought to have been no reason why the " churls " should dread the sight of a professed redresser of grievances . But even ...
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... volume in itself . It may be enough in these pages shortly to point out some few of the many instances in which Homer will be found one of the most interesting , be- cause assuredly one of the most unconscious , commen- tators on the ...
... volume in itself . It may be enough in these pages shortly to point out some few of the many instances in which Homer will be found one of the most interesting , be- cause assuredly one of the most unconscious , commen- tators on the ...
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Page 124 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Page 123 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
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Page 124 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
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