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Page 59
... toils and old age , died , and is much lamented by his pious son and companions . After some stay at this melancholy place with the generous Aceftes , they they again fet fail for that part of Italy once from Troy to Italy . 59.
... toils and old age , died , and is much lamented by his pious son and companions . After some stay at this melancholy place with the generous Aceftes , they they again fet fail for that part of Italy once from Troy to Italy . 59.
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... stay till they had refitted their fleet . But , unfortunately for her , Dido , by the device of Venus , conceived a passion for ÆNEAs , and pre- vailed upon him to relate to her , in a particular manner , the history of his adventures ...
... stay till they had refitted their fleet . But , unfortunately for her , Dido , by the device of Venus , conceived a passion for ÆNEAs , and pre- vailed upon him to relate to her , in a particular manner , the history of his adventures ...
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... stay , which he perceiving , dragged and bound them on board , and immediately set sail for the island Sicily or Trinacria , the country of the monstrous gigantic one - eyed Cyclops ; where , landing in the night , at a place called ...
... stay , which he perceiving , dragged and bound them on board , and immediately set sail for the island Sicily or Trinacria , the country of the monstrous gigantic one - eyed Cyclops ; where , landing in the night , at a place called ...
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... stay with her always . But , in a council of the gods , Minerva , ever careful of him , prevails upon Jupiter to command CALYPSO to fend away ULYSSES ; to which , with much difficulty , she consented , and he embarked on a raft of trees ...
... stay with her always . But , in a council of the gods , Minerva , ever careful of him , prevails upon Jupiter to command CALYPSO to fend away ULYSSES ; to which , with much difficulty , she consented , and he embarked on a raft of trees ...
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... stay long at Damascus after his converfion ; but retired into Arabia Petrea , and , having preached some time there , returned again to Damascus , where he staid three years . The malice of the Jews , being incensed for hav- ing loft so ...
... stay long at Damascus after his converfion ; but retired into Arabia Petrea , and , having preached some time there , returned again to Damascus , where he staid three years . The malice of the Jews , being incensed for hav- ing loft so ...
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ÆNEAS Affyria Afia Africa afterwards almoſt alſo ancient Apollo Arabia ARMENIA aſſiſtance bounded Britannia caſt coaft compaſs confiderable Crete daughter defcendants deſigned diſcovered divided diviſion earth east Egypt Epirus eſcape Eurylochus Euxine extenſive famous father fent fettled firſt fome foon fouth GALLIA GALLIA CELTICA GALLIA NARBONENSIS Gaul Grecian Greece Greeks gulph Iberia Imaus inhabitants iſland iſle Italy Jerufalem Juno Jupiter king kingdom laſt Lotophagi Lybia Lycia Macedonia MAURITANIA Mediterranean metropolis miles MOESIA moſt moſt remarkable mount mountains Neptune NUMIDIA ocean oppoſite paſs paſſed PAUL Phrygia preſent promiſed Propontis provinces raiſe reſt river Romans ſaid Sarmatia ſays Scythia ſea SECTION ſent ſet ſeven ſeveral ſhades ſhe ſhip ſhore ſhould Sicily ſiege ſituate ſmall ſo called ſome ſon ſtands ſtates ſtay ſtill ſtood the city ſtorm ſuitors ſuppoſed ſword Syria thence theſe thoſe Thrace town tract of land Trojans Troy Turnus Ulyffes ULYSSES Venus weſt whoſe
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Page 84 - This gives the poet occasion to describe the notion the heathens at that time had of an unbodied soul, in the excuse which the mother makes for seeming to withdraw herself from her son's embraces.
Page 85 - ... him by the hand. Ulysses, who was much moved at the sight, poured out a flood of tears, and asked him...
Page 84 - When this melancholy conversation is at an end, the poet draws up to view as charming a vision as could enter into man's imagination. He describes the next who appeared to Ulysses, to have been the shades of the finest women that had ever lived upon the earth, and who had either been the daughters of kings, the...
Page 83 - Ulysses, that, for the repose of his soul, he would build a monument over him, and perform funeral rites to his memory. Ulysses, with great sorrow of heart, promises to fulfil his request, and is immediately diverted to an object much more moving than the former. The ghost of his own mother, Anticlea, whom he still thought living, appears to him among the...
Page 86 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page 83 - Points out the long uncomfortable way. Trembling the fpeftres glide, and plaintive vent Thin, hollow fcreams, along the deep defcent. As in the cavern of fome rifted den, Where flock...
Page 84 - Ulysses on the other hand desires to know, what the sickness was that had sent her into those regions, and the condition in which she had left his father, his son, and more particularly his wife. She tells him, they were all three inconsolable for his absence.
Page 83 - Spectres glide, and plaintive vent Thin, hollow screams, along the deep descent. As in the cavern of some rifted den, Where flock nocturnal bats, and birds obscene ; 10 Cluster'd they hang, till at some sudden shock, They move, and murmurs run thro...
Page 84 - And as for myself, (says she,) that was the sickness of which I died. My impatience for your return, my anxiety for your welfare, and my fondness for my dear Ulysses, were the only distempers that preyed upon my life, and separated my soul from my body.
Page 85 - Agamemnon related to him in all its tragical circumstances ; how he was murdered at a banquet by the contrivance of his own wife, in confederacy with her adulterer : from whence he takes occasion to reproach the whole sex, after a manner which would be inexcusable in a man who had not been so great a sufferer by them.