The Iliad and Odyssey [and The battle of the frogs and mice] tr. into Engl. blank verse by W. Cowper, Volume 31809 |
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... Earth began . For he recall'd to mind Ægisthus slain By Agamemnon's celebrated son Orestes , and retracing in his thought That dread event , the Immortals thus address'd : How rash are humankind ! who charge on Us * The Ethiopians ...
... Earth began . For he recall'd to mind Ægisthus slain By Agamemnon's celebrated son Orestes , and retracing in his thought That dread event , the Immortals thus address'd : How rash are humankind ! who charge on Us * The Ethiopians ...
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... Earth from Heav'n . His daughter there the sorrowing chief detains , And ever with smooth speech insidious seeks , To wean his heart from Ithaca ; mean - time Ulysses , happy might he but behold The smoke ascending from his native land ...
... Earth from Heav'n . His daughter there the sorrowing chief detains , And ever with smooth speech insidious seeks , To wean his heart from Ithaca ; mean - time Ulysses , happy might he but behold The smoke ascending from his native land ...
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Homerus. Earth - circling Neptune - He it is , whose wrath Pursues him ceaseless for the Cyclops ' sake , Whom he hath blinded , Polypheme the vast , In strength superiour to his giant kind . For him the sea - nymph , Phorcys ' daughter ...
Homerus. Earth - circling Neptune - He it is , whose wrath Pursues him ceaseless for the Cyclops ' sake , Whom he hath blinded , Polypheme the vast , In strength superiour to his giant kind . For him the sea - nymph , Phorcys ' daughter ...
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... Earth And o'er the moist flood waft her fleet as air ; Then , seizing her brass - pointed spear robust , In length , and bulk , and weight a matchless beam , With which the Jove - born Goddess levels ranks Of heroes , against whom her ...
... Earth And o'er the moist flood waft her fleet as air ; Then , seizing her brass - pointed spear robust , In length , and bulk , and weight a matchless beam , With which the Jove - born Goddess levels ranks Of heroes , against whom her ...
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... earth cast down His sceptre weeping . Pity at that sight Seiz'd all the people ; mute the assembly sat Long time , none dar'd with answer rough to greet Telemachus , till of them all , at last , Antinoüs , sole arising , thus replied ...
... earth cast down His sceptre weeping . Pity at that sight Seiz'd all the people ; mute the assembly sat Long time , none dar'd with answer rough to greet Telemachus , till of them all , at last , Antinoüs , sole arising , thus replied ...
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abode Achaia's Ægisthus Alcinous ancient Antilochus Antinoüs approach'd arriv'd Atrides bade banquet bard bark behold beneath beside call'd Calypso ceas'd charg'd chief Circe Clytemnestra crew Cyclops daughter death Deep Demodocus divine dread Eurylochus Eurymachus Eustathius ev'ry eyes falchion father feast fill'd flocks flood friends galley Goddess godlike Gods Greecians guest hands hast hath heart Heav'n herald hero Homer Icarius Ilium illustrious immortal isle Ithaca Jove king Laertes land Laodamas length lest libation Lotophagi Mean-time Menelaus Minerva native shores Nausicaa Neleus Neptune Nestor night noble num'rous nymph o'er oars once palace Pallas pass'd Penelope perish'd Phæacia's sons Phæacians Pisistratus plac'd poet pow'r pray'r prepar'd Pylus reach'd receiv'd renown'd replied return'd rock sable saying seiz'd ship side sire slain sleep slew sorrow Sov'reign spake stood stranger suitors Telemachus thee thence thine thou shalt thyself Tiresias toils Troy Ulysses urg'd waves wine woes youth