The Odyssey of HomerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1917 - 429 pages |
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... gave them by aid of his dazzling rhetoric , his antitheses , his netteté , his command of every conventional and favourite artifice . Without Chapman's conceits , Homer's poems would hardly have been what the Elizabethans took for ...
... gave them by aid of his dazzling rhetoric , his antitheses , his netteté , his command of every conventional and favourite artifice . Without Chapman's conceits , Homer's poems would hardly have been what the Elizabethans took for ...
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... gave it him , for he bare him wondrous love . O that Odysseus might in such strength consort with the wooers : so should they all have swift fate and bitter wedlock ! How- beit these things surely lie on the knees of the gods , whether ...
... gave it him , for he bare him wondrous love . O that Odysseus might in such strength consort with the wooers : so should they all have swift fate and bitter wedlock ! How- beit these things surely lie on the knees of the gods , whether ...
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... gave for her the worth of twenty oxen . And he honoured her even as he honoured his dear wife in the halls , but he never lay with her , for he shunned the wrath of his lady . She went with Telem- achus and bare for him the burning ...
... gave for her the worth of twenty oxen . And he honoured her even as he honoured his dear wife in the halls , but he never lay with her , for he shunned the wrath of his lady . She went with Telem- achus and bare for him the burning ...
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... gave place to him . Then the lord Aegyptus spake among them first ; bowed was he with age , and skilled in things past number . Now for this reason he spake that his dear son , the warrior Antiphus , had gone in the hollow ships to ...
... gave place to him . Then the lord Aegyptus spake among them first ; bowed was he with age , and skilled in things past number . Now for this reason he spake that his dear son , the warrior Antiphus , had gone in the hollow ships to ...
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... gave them messes of the inner meat , and poured wine into a golden cup , and pledging her , he spake unto Pallas Athene , daughter of Zeus , lord of the aegis : ' Pray now , my guest , to the lord Poseidon , even as it is his feast ...
... gave them messes of the inner meat , and poured wine into a golden cup , and pledging her , he spake unto Pallas Athene , daughter of Zeus , lord of the aegis : ' Pray now , my guest , to the lord Poseidon , even as it is his feast ...
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abide Achaeans Aegisthus Alcinous Antinous Atreus bade behold beneath black ship Calypso cast chamber Circe counsels answered dear death deathless gods decked ships deeds deep didst doublet drave drew drink Dulichium earth Eumaeus Eupeithes Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus evil fair father feast fell friends gifts goddess godlike grey-eyed Athene halls handmaids hands hath Hephaestus hither hollow ship Homer Icarius isle Ithaca Laertes land lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus methinks mighty mother Nestor nigh noble Phaeacians Poseidon pray Pylos raiment renowned sails saying slay sleep smote sorrow spake unto spear spirit steadfast goodly Odysseus 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