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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Homerus. ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST BOOK . In a Council of the Gods , Minerva calls their attention to Ulysses , still a wanderer . They resolve to grant him a safe return to Ithaca . Minerva descends to encourage Telemachus , and in the form ...
Homerus. ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST BOOK . In a Council of the Gods , Minerva calls their attention to Ulysses , still a wanderer . They resolve to grant him a safe return to Ithaca . Minerva descends to encourage Telemachus , and in the form ...
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... Gods In Jove's abode , mean - time , assembled all , ' Midst whom the Sire of Heav'n and 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 ...
... Gods In Jove's abode , mean - time , assembled all , ' Midst whom the Sire of Heav'n and 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 ...
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... Gods Exerted single , can but strive in vain . To whom Minerva , Goddess azure - ey'd : O Jupiter ! above all kings enthron'd ! If the Immortals ever - blest ordain , That wise Ulysses to his home return , Dispatch we then Hermes the ...
... Gods Exerted single , can but strive in vain . To whom Minerva , Goddess azure - ey'd : O Jupiter ! above all kings enthron'd ! If the Immortals ever - blest ordain , That wise Ulysses to his home return , Dispatch we then Hermes the ...
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... Gods his homeward course retard . For not yet breathless lies the noble chief , But in some island of the boundless flood Resides a prisoner , by barb'rous force Of some rude race detain'd reluctant there . And I will now foreshow thee ...
... Gods his homeward course retard . For not yet breathless lies the noble chief , But in some island of the boundless flood Resides a prisoner , by barb'rous force Of some rude race detain'd reluctant there . And I will now foreshow thee ...
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... Gods shall prove thee sprung , whom so endow'd With ev'ry grace Penelope hath borne . But tell me true . What festival is this ? This throng - whence are they ? wherefore hast thou need Of such a multitude ? Behold I here A banquet , or ...
... Gods shall prove thee sprung , whom so endow'd With ev'ry grace Penelope hath borne . But tell me true . What festival is this ? This throng - whence are they ? wherefore hast thou need Of such a multitude ? Behold I here A banquet , or ...
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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