The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 3Bernard Lintot, 1725 - Epic poetry |
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... paffage : " This is that Eolas , fays he , who entertain'd Ulyffes in his voy- ages : He is reported to have been a pious and juft Prince , and " given to hofpitality , and therefore pinos abaváros , as Homer " expreffes it . " But ...
... paffage : " This is that Eolas , fays he , who entertain'd Ulyffes in his voy- ages : He is reported to have been a pious and juft Prince , and " given to hofpitality , and therefore pinos abaváros , as Homer " expreffes it . " But ...
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... paffage , that Homer thought a perfon might lawfully take away his own life to avoid the greatest dangers what Ulyffes here speaks arifes from the violence of a fudden paf- fion , and gives us a true picture of Human Nature : The wifeft ...
... paffage , that Homer thought a perfon might lawfully take away his own life to avoid the greatest dangers what Ulyffes here speaks arifes from the violence of a fudden paf- fion , and gives us a true picture of Human Nature : The wifeft ...
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... paffage , and repel thy fleet ? Wast thou not furnish'd by our choicest care -For Greece ; for home , and all thy foul held dear ? 75 Thus they ; in filence long my fate I mourn'd , At length these words with accent low return'd . Me ...
... paffage , and repel thy fleet ? Wast thou not furnish'd by our choicest care -For Greece ; for home , and all thy foul held dear ? 75 Thus they ; in filence long my fate I mourn'd , At length these words with accent low return'd . Me ...
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... paffage has been thought to be very difficult ; but Euftathius makes it intelligible : The Land of the Leftrigons was fruitful , and fit for pafturage ; it was the practice to tend the theep by day , and the oxen by night ; for it was ...
... paffage has been thought to be very difficult ; but Euftathius makes it intelligible : The Land of the Leftrigons was fruitful , and fit for pafturage ; it was the practice to tend the theep by day , and the oxen by night ; for it was ...
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... paffage is to be understood allegorically . Mercury is Reason , he being the God of Science : The plant which he gives as a preservative against incantation is instruction ; the root of it is black , the flower white and fweet ; the ...
... paffage is to be understood allegorically . Mercury is Reason , he being the God of Science : The plant which he gives as a preservative against incantation is instruction ; the root of it is black , the flower white and fweet ; the ...
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