Homer: The OdysseyWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1882 - 136 pages |
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A. C. vol Achilles adventures Ægisthus Agamemnon Alcinous ancient Antinous banquet beauty bids blind Calypso CATULLUS character charmed chief Circe companions comrades crew Crown 8vo Cyclops dark dead disguised divine doth enchantress English Verse escape Eumæus Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fair fate father feast goddess gods grace Greek guest halls hand hath hear heart Helen hero Herodotus Homer honour huge Iliad immortal island Ithaca king Laertes land lord lotus Lotus-eaters maiden Menelaus Minerva modern mortal mother Nausicaa Neoptolemus Nestor night Noman o'er Odyssey once palace Penelope Phæacian PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY Pisistratus poem poet poet's Polyphemus princess Pylos queen reader recognise rest round royal sail says Sea-god ship shore song Sparta spear spirit story stranger strong suitors sweet tale tears Telemachus tell thee thou Tiresias toil Translated Troy Ulysses vengeance vessel voyage wanderings wife wine young
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Page 104 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Page 103 - That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads...
Page 109 - Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day : now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Page 62 - And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam.
Page 104 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Page 71 - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteemed, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon ; And yet more medicinal is it than that Moly That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave.
Page 36 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 49 - Onely she turnd a pin, and by and by It cut away upon the yielding wave, Ne cared she her course for to apply ; For it was taught the way which she would have, And both from rocks and...
Page 78 - Scoff not at death,' he answered, ' noble chief! Rather would I in the sun's warmth divine Serve a poor churl who drags his days in grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.
Page 54 - Whom the Muse loved, and gave him good and ill ; 111, that of light she did his eyes deprive, Good, that sweet minstrelsies divine at will She lent him, and a voice men's ears to thrill.