The Odyssey of HomerMacmillan and Company, limited, 1917 - 429 pages |
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... mind , or whether we have here an inadvertence of the poet's , it is hard to determine . This blemish has been used as an argu- ment against the unity of authorship , but writers of all ages have made graver mistakes . On this same day ...
... mind , or whether we have here an inadvertence of the poet's , it is hard to determine . This blemish has been used as an argu- ment against the unity of authorship , but writers of all ages have made graver mistakes . On this same day ...
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... mind he learnt , yea , and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the deep , striving to win his own life and the return of his company . Nay , but even so he saved not his company , though he desired it sore . For through the ...
... mind he learnt , yea , and many the woes he suffered in his heart upon the deep , striving to win his own life and the return of his company . Nay , but even so he saved not his company , though he desired it sore . For through the ...
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... mind and heart , how thou mayest slay the wooers in thy halls , whether by guile or openly ; for thou shouldest not carry childish thoughts , being no longer of years thereto . Or hast thou not heard what renown the goodly Orestes gat ...
... mind and heart , how thou mayest slay the wooers in thy halls , whether by guile or openly ; for thou shouldest not carry childish thoughts , being no longer of years thereto . Or hast thou not heard what renown the goodly Orestes gat ...
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... mind of his father yet more than heretofore . And he marked the thing and was amazed , for he deemed that it was a god ; and anon he went among the wooers , a godlike man . Now the renowned minstrel was singing to the wooers , and they ...
... mind of his father yet more than heretofore . And he marked the thing and was amazed , for he deemed that it was a god ; and anon he went among the wooers , a godlike man . Now the renowned minstrel was singing to the wooers , and they ...
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... mind endure to listen , for not Odysseus only lost in Troy the day of his returning , but many another likewise perished . Howbeit go to thy chamber and mind thine own housewiferies , the loom and distaff , and bid thy handmaids ply ...
... mind endure to listen , for not Odysseus only lost in Troy the day of his returning , but many another likewise perished . Howbeit go to thy chamber and mind thine own housewiferies , the loom and distaff , and bid thy handmaids ply ...
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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