Homer, Volume 3Harper & Bros., 1836 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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... Cyclops . ULYSSES begins the relation of his adventures ; how , after the destruction of Troy , he , with his companions , made an incur- sion on the Cicons , by whom they were repulsed ; and meet- ing with a storm , were driven to the ...
... Cyclops . ULYSSES begins the relation of his adventures ; how , after the destruction of Troy , he , with his companions , made an incur- sion on the Cicons , by whom they were repulsed ; and meet- ing with a storm , were driven to the ...
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... Cyclops first , a savage kind , Nor tamed by manners , nor by laws confined : 120 Untaught to plant , to turn the glebe and sow ; They all their products to free nature owe . The soil untill'd a ready harvest yields , With wheat and ...
... Cyclops first , a savage kind , Nor tamed by manners , nor by laws confined : 120 Untaught to plant , to turn the glebe and sow ; They all their products to free nature owe . The soil untill'd a ready harvest yields , With wheat and ...
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... Cyclops lay in prospect near ; The voice of goats and breating flocks we hear , And from their mountains rising smokes appear . Now sunk the sun , and darkness cover'd o'er The face of things : along the sea - beat shore Satiate we ...
... Cyclops lay in prospect near ; The voice of goats and breating flocks we hear , And from their mountains rising smokes appear . Now sunk the sun , and darkness cover'd o'er The face of things : along the sea - beat shore Satiate we ...
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... Cyclops are a race above Those air - bred people , and their goat - nursed Jove ; And learn , our power proceeds with thee and thine , Not as he wills , but as ourselves incline . But answer , the good ship that brought ye o'er , Where ...
... Cyclops are a race above Those air - bred people , and their goat - nursed Jove ; And learn , our power proceeds with thee and thine , Not as he wills , but as ourselves incline . But answer , the good ship that brought ye o'er , Where ...
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... Cyclop ! since human flesh has been thy feast , Now drain this goblet , potent to digest ; Know hence what treasures in our ship we lost , 410 And what rich liquors other climates boast . We to thy shore the precious freight shall bear ...
... Cyclop ! since human flesh has been thy feast , Now drain this goblet , potent to digest ; Know hence what treasures in our ship we lost , 410 And what rich liquors other climates boast . We to thy shore the precious freight shall bear ...
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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!