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... a various sylvan scene Appear'd around , and groves of living green ; Poplars and alders ever quivering play'd , 70 75 80 And nodding cypress form'd a fragrant shade ; On whose high branches , waving with the storm , ODYSSEY . - BOOK V. 7.
... a various sylvan scene Appear'd around , and groves of living green ; Poplars and alders ever quivering play'd , 70 75 80 And nodding cypress form'd a fragrant shade ; On whose high branches , waving with the storm , ODYSSEY . - BOOK V. 7.
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... shades , and bind the attesting gods ! 240 No form'd design , no meditated end , Lurks in the counsel of thy faithful friend ; Kind the persuasion , and sincere my aim ; The same my practice , were my fate the same . Heaven has not ...
... shades , and bind the attesting gods ! 240 No form'd design , no meditated end , Lurks in the counsel of thy faithful friend ; Kind the persuasion , and sincere my aim ; The same my practice , were my fate the same . Heaven has not ...
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... shade extends . To the close grot the lonely pair remove , And slept delighted with the gifts of love . When rosy morning call'd them from their rest , Ulysses robed him in the cloak and vest . The nymph's fair head a veil transparent ...
... shade extends . To the close grot the lonely pair remove , And slept delighted with the gifts of love . When rosy morning call'd them from their rest , Ulysses robed him in the cloak and vest . The nymph's fair head a veil transparent ...
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... shade ; ) 625 Where three at least might winter's cold defy , Though Boreas raged along the inclement sky . This store with joy the patient hero found , And , sunk amid them , heap'd the leaves around . As some poor peasant , fated to ...
... shade ; ) 625 Where three at least might winter's cold defy , Though Boreas raged along the inclement sky . This store with joy the patient hero found , And , sunk amid them , heap'd the leaves around . As some poor peasant , fated to ...
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... shade , Ulysses lies , His woes forgot ! but Pallas now address'd To break the bands of all - composing rest . Forth from her snowy hand Nausicaa threw The various ball ; the ball erroneous flew , And swam the stream : loud shrieks the ...
... shade , Ulysses lies , His woes forgot ! but Pallas now address'd To break the bands of all - composing rest . Forth from her snowy hand Nausicaa threw The various ball ; the ball erroneous flew , And swam the stream : loud shrieks the ...
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address'd Agelaus Alcinous Amphinomus Anticlea Antinous arms Atrides attend bear behold bend beneath bless'd blood bold bower brave breast breath Calypso coast cries crown'd Cyclop death decreed descends dire divine dome dreadful Dulichium Eumæus Euryclea Eurylochus Eurymachus Eurynome Ev'n eyes fair falchion fame fate feast fierce flies friends goddess gods grace guest hand haste hear heart Heaven hero Homer honours Iliad instant Jove king labours Laertes land Laodamas lord maid Melanthius mighty mind monarch mortal native Nausicaa Neptune night nymph o'er palace Pallas pass'd peers pensive press'd prey prince Pylos queen race rage rejoin'd replies rise roll'd round royal sacred sails shade shining shore sire skies soft soul spoke spread stranger suitors swain Swift tears Telemachus thee Theoclymenus thou throne thunder Tiresias toils touch'd train Ulysses vengeance vessel wandering waves wine woes wretch youth
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Page 8 - The birds of broadest wing their mansion form, The chough, the seamew, the loquacious crow, And scream aloft, and skim the deeps below. Depending vines the shelving cavern screen, With purple clusters blushing through the green. Four limpid fountains from the clefts distil...
Page 212 - Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
Page 130 - Oh stay, O pride of Greece! Ulysses, stay! Oh cease thy course, and listen to our lay ! Blest is the man ordain'd our voice to hear, The song instructs the soul, and charms the ear. Approach! thy soul shall into raptures rise! Approach! and learn new wisdom from the wise!
Page 144 - To whom the father of th' immortal powers, Who swells the clouds, and gladdens earth with showers. Can mighty Neptune thus of man complain? Neptune, tremendous o'er the boundless main ! Rever'd and awful e'en in heaven's abodes, Ancient and great! a god above the gods! If that low race offend thy power divine, (Weak, daring creatures ! ) is not vengeance thine ? Go then, the guilty at thy will chastise.
Page 94 - She faints, she falls; she lifts her weeping eyes. 'What art thou? say ! from whence, from whom you came? O more than human ! tell thy race, thy name. Amazing strength, these poisons to sustain! Not mortal thou, nor mortal is thy brain.
Page 54 - In fighting fields as far the spear I throw As flies an arrow from the well-drawn bow. Sole in the race the contest I decline, Stiff are my weary joints, and I resign ; By storms and hunger worn : age well may fail, When storms and hunger both at once assail.
Page 131 - Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms. When the tide rushes from her rumbling caves The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves...
Page 324 - Longinus is so far from finding any defect in these, that he rather taxes Homer with painting them too minutely. As to the narrations, although they are more numerous as the occasions...
Page 142 - Phorcys' power, whose name it bears : Two craggy rocks projecting to the main, The roaring wind's tempestuous rage restrain ; Within the waves in softer murmurs glide, And ships secure without their halsers ride.
Page 68 - They went and found a hospitable race; Not prone to ill, nor strange to foreign guest, They eat, they drink, and nature gives the feast; The trees around them, all their fruit produce; Lotos, the name; divine nectareous juice!