 Athene, devising a return for the great-hearted Odysseus. She betook her to the rich-wrought bower, wherein was sleeping a maiden like to the gods in form and comeliness, Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous, high of heart. Beside her on either hand of...  The Odyssey of Homer: Done Into English Prose - Page 92by Homer, Samuel Henry Butcher, Andrew Lang - 1883 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1879 - 518 pages
...depart, and he carried them away, and planted them in Scheria, far off from men that live by bread. And he drew a wall around the town, and builded houses...the semblance of the daughter of a famous seafarer, Dymas, a girl of like age with Nausicaa, who had found grace in her sight. In her shape the greyeyed... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1879 - 422 pages
...around the town, and builded houses and made temples for the gods and meted out the fields. Ho\vbeit, ere this had he been stricken by fate, and had gone...breath of the wind, swept towards the couch of the maiden,~and stood above her head, and spake to her in the semblance of the daughter of a famous seafarer,... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Burt - Literature - 1890 - 328 pages
...house went the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, vision to Naudevising a return for the great-hearted Ulysses. She betook her to the rich-wrought bower, wherein...the semblance of the daughter of a famous seafarer, Dymas, a girl of like age with Nausicaa, who had found grace in her sight. In her shape the grey-eyed... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1897 - 492 pages
...like to the gods in form and comeliness, Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous, high of heart. Beside 15 her on either hand of the pillars of the door were...the goddess, fleet as the breath of the wind, swept toward the couch of the maiden, and stood above her 20 head, and spake to her in the semblance of the... | |
 | Walter Copland Perry - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 292 pages
...sleeping a maiden, " like to the gods in form and comeliness," Nausicaa, the daughter of the king. Beside her, on either hand of the pillars of the door, were two handmaids, " dowered with beauty by the Graces," and the shining doors were shut. Fleet as the breath of the wind the goddess swept... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Literature - 1899 - 568 pages
...now Alcinous was reigning, with wisdom granted by the gods. To his house went the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, devising a return for the great-hearted Odysseus....the semblance of the daughter of a famous seafarer, Dymas, a girl of like age with Nausicaa, who had found grace in her sight. In her shape the gray-eyed... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 472 pages
...now Alcinous was reigning, with wisdom granted by the gods. To his house went the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, devising a return for the great-hearted Odysseus....the semblance of the daughter of a famous seafarer, Dymas, a girl of like age with Nausicaa, who had found grace in her sight. In her shape the gray-eyed... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 628 pages
...Nausikaa, the daughter of great-hearted Alkinob's. Near her, on either hand of the pillars of the door, lay two handmaids, dowered with beauty from the Graces, and the shining doors were shut. maiden's couch and stood above her head, and spoke to her in the semblance of the daughter of a famous... | |
 | Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor - Biography - 1904 - 444 pages
...now Alcinous was reigning, with wisdom granted by the gods. To his house went the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, devising a return for the great-hearted Odysseus....the semblance of the daughter of a famous seafarer, Dymas, a girl of like age with Nausicaa, who had found grace in her sight. In her shape the gray-eyed... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - Readers - 1918 - 424 pages
...city of the Phseacians, to the house of King Alcinous. She betook her to the rich-wrought bower, 5 wherein was sleeping a maiden like to the gods in...from the Graces, and the shining doors were shut. 10 But the goddess, fleet as the breath of the wind, swept towards the couch of the maiden, and stood... | |
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