The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 3Bernard Lintot, 1725 - Epic poetry |
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... fafe , be wife ! In flow'ry meads the sportive Sirens play , 195 Touch the foft lyre , and tune the vocal lay ; . Me , me alone , with fetters firmly bound , The Gods allow to hear the dangerous found . Hear and obey : If freedom I ...
... fafe , be wife ! In flow'ry meads the sportive Sirens play , 195 Touch the foft lyre , and tune the vocal lay ; . Me , me alone , with fetters firmly bound , The Gods allow to hear the dangerous found . Hear and obey : If freedom I ...
Page 158
... fafe return'd . Ulyffes led the way .. Learn v . 250. Deep in the dire Cyclopean den you lay Tet fafe return'd- -Lilyffes led the way . ] Plutarch excellently explains this paffage in his Differtation , How a man may praise himself ...
... fafe return'd . Ulyffes led the way .. Learn v . 250. Deep in the dire Cyclopean den you lay Tet fafe return'd- -Lilyffes led the way . ] Plutarch excellently explains this paffage in his Differtation , How a man may praise himself ...
Page 195
... fafe- " ty : Homer therefore had no other way left to unravel his fable " happily : But he knew what was abfurd in this method , and uses " means to hide it ; he lavishes out all his wit and addrefs , and lays together fuch an abundance ...
... fafe- " ty : Homer therefore had no other way left to unravel his fable " happily : But he knew what was abfurd in this method , and uses " means to hide it ; he lavishes out all his wit and addrefs , and lays together fuch an abundance ...
Page 255
... fafe return avail , To come in pomp , or bear a secret fail ? Full v . 363 . he voyag'd to explore the will Of Jove , on high Dodona's holy hill . ] Thefe Oaks of Dodona were held to be oraculous , and to be en- dued with speech , by ...
... fafe return avail , To come in pomp , or bear a secret fail ? Full v . 363 . he voyag'd to explore the will Of Jove , on high Dodona's holy hill . ] Thefe Oaks of Dodona were held to be oraculous , and to be en- dued with speech , by ...
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... fafe I flept , till brightly - dawning fhone 570 The Morn , confpicuous on her golden throne . 575 Oh were my ftrength as then , as then my age ! Some friend would fence me from the winter's rage . Yet tatter'd as I look , I challeng'd ...
... fafe I flept , till brightly - dawning fhone 570 The Morn , confpicuous on her golden throne . 575 Oh were my ftrength as then , as then my age ! Some friend would fence me from the winter's rage . Yet tatter'd as I look , I challeng'd ...
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Alcinous Anticlea Antients becauſe breaft caft call'd Charybdis Cimmerians Circe coaft companions confequently Dacier darkneſs death defcends defcribes defcription dire divine dreadful Epic Poetry Euftathius Eumans Eumaus Eurylochus Eurypylus ev'ry exprefs fable facred fafe faid fame fate fays feaft feem felf fenfe fhade fhall fhews fhip fhore fhould fignifies filence firft firſt flain fleep fome foul fpeaks ftand ftill ftory fuch gives Goddeſs Gods heav'n Hell herds Herodotus Heroe Hiftory himſelf Homer honour Ifland Iliad infernal inftance Jove King land Lipara loft moſt muſt Neptune night o'er obferves occafion Odyffey Orchomenos paffage perfon Phaacians Phorcys pleaſure Plutarch Poet Poetry pow'r prefent reafon reft reprefents rife rocks Scylla ſhe ſhore ſpeaks Strabo Symplegades Telegonus Telemachus thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro Tirefias tranflated Ulyffes Ulyſſes underſtood uſed veffel verfe verſes Virgil whofe wife winds Wiſdom woes words καὶ