Homer, Volume 3Harper & Bros., 1836 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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... monarch be the scourge of God ; If from your thoughts Ulysses you remove , Who ruled his subjects with a father's love . Sole in an isle , encircled by the main , Abandon'd , banish'd from his native reign , Unbless'd he sighs , detain ...
... monarch be the scourge of God ; If from your thoughts Ulysses you remove , Who ruled his subjects with a father's love . Sole in an isle , encircled by the main , Abandon'd , banish'd from his native reign , Unbless'd he sighs , detain ...
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... monarch shook his azure head , And thus in secret to his soul he said : 365 " Heavens ! how uncertain are the powers on high ! Is then reversed the sentence of the sky , In one man's favour ; while a distant guest I shared secure the ...
... monarch shook his azure head , And thus in secret to his soul he said : 365 " Heavens ! how uncertain are the powers on high ! Is then reversed the sentence of the sky , In one man's favour ; while a distant guest I shared secure the ...
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... in the silent grave the monarch lay , And wise Alcinous held the regal sway . To his high palace through the fields The goddess shot ; Ulysses was her care . of air 16 20 There as the night in silence roll'd away , A.
... in the silent grave the monarch lay , And wise Alcinous held the regal sway . To his high palace through the fields The goddess shot ; Ulysses was her care . of air 16 20 There as the night in silence roll'd away , A.
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... monarchs sigh ! The. royal. car. at. early. dawn. obtain. ,. 35 41 And order mules obedient to the rein ; For rough the way , and distant rolls the wave , Where their fair vests Phæacian virgins lave . In pomp ride forth ; for pomp becomes ...
... monarchs sigh ! The. royal. car. at. early. dawn. obtain. ,. 35 41 And order mules obedient to the rein ; For rough the way , and distant rolls the wave , Where their fair vests Phæacian virgins lave . In pomp ride forth ; for pomp becomes ...
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... monarch that his people bless'd , Father and prince of the Phæacian name ; From him Rhexenor and Alcinous came . The first by Phœbus ' burning arrows fired , New from his nuptials , hapless youth ! expired . No son survived : Arete heir ...
... monarch that his people bless'd , Father and prince of the Phæacian name ; From him Rhexenor and Alcinous came . The first by Phœbus ' burning arrows fired , New from his nuptials , hapless youth ! expired . No son survived : Arete heir ...
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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!