The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 3Bernard Lintot, 1725 - Epic poetry |
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... fhore Where great Hippotades the fcepter bore , A floating Ifle ! High - rais'd by toil divine , Strong walls of brafs the rocky coaft confine . NOTES . Six Poetry is a mixture of Hiftory and Fable ; the foundation is hiftorical ...
... fhore Where great Hippotades the fcepter bore , A floating Ifle ! High - rais'd by toil divine , Strong walls of brafs the rocky coaft confine . NOTES . Six Poetry is a mixture of Hiftory and Fable ; the foundation is hiftorical ...
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... fhore . ] It is difficult to diftinguish what is truth from what is fiction in this relation : Diodorus , who was a Sicilian , fpeaks of colus , and refers to this paffage : " This is that Eolas , fays he , who entertain'd Ulyffes in ...
... fhore . ] It is difficult to diftinguish what is truth from what is fiction in this relation : Diodorus , who was a Sicilian , fpeaks of colus , and refers to this paffage : " This is that Eolas , fays he , who entertain'd Ulyffes in ...
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... fhores withdrew . Rowz'd from my fatal fleep , I long debate 55 If ftill to live , or defp'rate plunge to Fate ... fhore , and with a fcanty feaft Our thirst and hunger haftily reprefs'd ; That done , two chosen heralds strait ...
... fhores withdrew . Rowz'd from my fatal fleep , I long debate 55 If ftill to live , or defp'rate plunge to Fate ... fhore , and with a fcanty feaft Our thirst and hunger haftily reprefs'd ; That done , two chosen heralds strait ...
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... fhore . From thence we climb'd a point , whofe airy brow Commands the profpect of the plains below : No tracks of beafts , or figns of men we found , But fmoaky volumes rolling from the ground . 115 Two with our herald thither we ...
... fhore . From thence we climb'd a point , whofe airy brow Commands the profpect of the plains below : No tracks of beafts , or figns of men we found , But fmoaky volumes rolling from the ground . 115 Two with our herald thither we ...
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... fhore . Fragments they rend from off the craggy brow , 140 And dafh the ruins on the ships below : The crackling veffels burft ; hoarfe groans arife , And mingled horrors eccho to the skies . The men , like fifh , they ftuck upon the ...
... fhore . Fragments they rend from off the craggy brow , 140 And dafh the ruins on the ships below : The crackling veffels burft ; hoarfe groans arife , And mingled horrors eccho to the skies . The men , like fifh , they ftuck upon the ...
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Alcinous Anticlea Antients becauſe breaft caft call'd Charybdis Cimmerians Circe coaft companions confequently Dacier darkneſs death defcends defcribes defcription dire divine dreadful Epic Poetry Euftathius Eumans Eumaus Eurylochus Eurypylus ev'ry exprefs fable facred fafe faid fame fate fays feaft feem felf fenfe fhade fhall fhews fhip fhore fhould fignifies filence firft firſt flain fleep fome foul fpeaks ftand ftill ftory fuch gives Goddeſs Gods heav'n Hell herds Herodotus Heroe Hiftory himſelf Homer honour Ifland Iliad infernal inftance Jove King land Lipara loft moſt muſt Neptune night o'er obferves occafion Odyffey Orchomenos paffage perfon Phaacians Phorcys pleaſure Plutarch Poet Poetry pow'r prefent reafon reft reprefents rife rocks Scylla ſhe ſhore ſpeaks Strabo Symplegades Telegonus Telemachus thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Tirefias tranflated Ulyffes Ulyſſes underſtood uſed veffel verfe verſes Virgil whofe wife winds Wiſdom woes words καὶ