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... called ' the horrid tennis . ' In the age of Anne , ' dignity ' and ' correctness ' had to be given to Homer , and Pope gave them by aid of his dazzling rhetoric , his antitheses , his netteté , his command of every conventional and ...
... called ' the horrid tennis . ' In the age of Anne , ' dignity ' and ' correctness ' had to be given to Homer , and Pope gave them by aid of his dazzling rhetoric , his antitheses , his netteté , his command of every conventional and ...
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... called the gathering , and the Achaeans were assembled quickly . Now when they were gathered and come together , he went on his way to the assembly holding in his hand a spear of bronze , — not alone he went , for two swift hounds bare ...
... called the gathering , and the Achaeans were assembled quickly . Now when they were gathered and come together , he went on his way to the assembly holding in his hand a spear of bronze , — not alone he went , for two swift hounds bare ...
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... called the folk together , even I : for sorrow hath come to me in chief . Neither have I heard any tidings of the host now return- ing , which I may plainly declare to you , for that I first learned thereof ; neither do I show forth or ...
... called the folk together , even I : for sorrow hath come to me in chief . Neither have I heard any tidings of the host now return- ing , which I may plainly declare to you , for that I first learned thereof ; neither do I show forth or ...
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... called her into the chamber and spake unto her , saying : ' Mother , come draw off for me sweet wine in jars , the choicest next to that thou keepest mindful ever of that ill- fated one , Odysseus , of the seed of Zeus , if perchance he ...
... called her into the chamber and spake unto her , saying : ' Mother , come draw off for me sweet wine in jars , the choicest next to that thou keepest mindful ever of that ill- fated one , Odysseus , of the seed of Zeus , if perchance he ...
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... called him from out the fair - lying halls , taking the likeness of Mentor , both in fashion and in voice : ' Telemachus , thy goodly - greaved companions are sitting already at their oars , it is thy despatch they are awaiting . Nay ...
... called him from out the fair - lying halls , taking the likeness of Mentor , both in fashion and in voice : ' Telemachus , thy goodly - greaved companions are sitting already at their oars , it is thy despatch they are awaiting . Nay ...
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abide Achaeans Aegisthus Alcinous anon Antinous Atreus bade behold beneath black ship cast chamber Circe daughter of Zeus dear death deathless gods decked ship deeds deep didst doublet drave drew drink Dulichium earth Eumaeus Eupeithes Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus evil fair father feast fell friends gifts give goddess godlike grey-eyed Athene halls handmaids hands hath Hephaestus hither hollow ship Howbeit Icarius Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh patient goodly Odysseus Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned rich in counsel saying slay sleep smote sorrow spake unto spear spirit stood straightway stranger sweet swift ship swine swineherd Teiresias tell thee thereof Therewith thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thyself took twain verily voice wandering Wherefore wife wind wine winged words wise Penelope wise Telemachus answered wooers Zeus
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Page 184 - ... aforetime in his supple limbs. "At the sight of him I wept and was moved with compassion, and uttering my voice, spake to him winged words: 'Most renowned son of Atreus, Agamemnon, king of men, say what doom overcame thee of death that lays men at their length? Did Poseidon smite thee in thy ships...
Page 339 - ... ye suffer? Shrouded in night are your heads and your faces and your knees, and kindled is the voice of wailing, and all cheeks are wet with tears, and the walls and the fair main-beams of the roof are sprinkled with blood.
Page 190 - Moreover I beheld Tantalus in grievous torment, standing in a mere and the water came nigh unto his chin. And he stood straining as one athirst, but he might not attain to the water to drink of it. For often as that old man stooped down in his eagerness to drink, so often the water was swallowed up and it vanished away, and the black earth still showed at his feet, for some god parched it evermore.
Page 66 - Argos, the pasture-land of horses, but the deathless gods will convey thee to the Elysian plain and the world's end, where is Rhadamanthus of the fair hair, where life is easiest for men. No snow is there, nor yet great storm, nor any rain; but always ocean sendeth forth the breeze of the shrill West to blow cool on men: yea, for thou hast Helen to wife, and thereby they deem thee to be son of Zeus.
Page 316 - There is a land called Crete in the midst of the wine-dark sea, a fair land and a rich, begirt with water, and therein are many men innumerable, and ninety cities.
Page 91 - So he crept beneath twin bushes that grew from one stem, both olive trees, one of them wild olive. Through these the force of the wet winds blew never, neither did the bright sun light on it with his rays, nor could the rain pierce through, so close were they twined either to other; and thereunder crept Odysseus...
Page 237 - Calypso, the fair goddess, spake first and said : ' Son of Laertes, of the seed of Zeus, Odysseus of many devices, so it is indeed thy wish to get thee home to thine own dear country even in this hour?
Page 50 - And they stretched forth their hands upon the good cheer set before them. Now when they had put from them the desire of meat and drink...
Page 2 - Lo you now, how vainly mortal men do blame the gods! For of us they say comes evil, whereas they even of themselves, through the blindness of their own hearts, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.
Page 88 - ... vaulted from the crest, and therewith smote him. And as when a great tempestuous wind tosseth a heap of parched husks, and scatters them this way and that, even so did the wave scatter the long beams of the raft. But Odysseus bestrode a single beam, as one rideth on a courser, and stript him of the garments which fair Calypso gave him. And presently he wound the veil beneath his breast, and fell prone into the sea, outstretching his hands as one eager to swim. And the lord, the shaker of the...