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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... Jove , these things record , As it may please thee , even in our ears . The rest , all those who had perdition ' scap'd By war or on the Deep , dwelt now at home ; Him only , of his country and his wife VOL . I. B 1 Alike desirous , in ...
... Jove , these things record , As it may please thee , even in our ears . The rest , all those who had perdition ' scap'd By war or on the Deep , dwelt now at home ; Him only , of his country and his wife VOL . I. B 1 Alike desirous , in ...
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... 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 Immortals ...
... 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 Immortals ...
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... Jove , Saturnian Sire , o'er all supreme ! * Chrysippus , as quoted by Gellius , inveighs with much reason- able indignation against those profligate and audacious persons , who , to excuse a slavish obedience to their lusts , have ...
... Jove , Saturnian Sire , o'er all supreme ! * Chrysippus , as quoted by Gellius , inveighs with much reason- able indignation against those profligate and audacious persons , who , to excuse a slavish obedience to their lusts , have ...
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... Jove ! At last relent ? Hath not Ulysses oft With victims slain amid Achaia's fleet Thee gratified , while yet at Troy he fought ? How , therefore , hath he thus incens'd thee , Jove ? To whom the Sov'reign of the realms of air : What ...
... Jove ! At last relent ? Hath not Ulysses oft With victims slain amid Achaia's fleet Thee gratified , while yet at Troy he fought ? How , therefore , hath he thus incens'd thee , Jove ? To whom the Sov'reign of the realms of air : What ...
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... Jove - born Goddess levels ranks Of heroes , against whom her anger burns , From the Olympian summit down she flew To Ithac * , where , in the vestibule And on the threshold of Ulysses ' hall Grasping her brazen spear she stood , in ...
... Jove - born Goddess levels ranks Of heroes , against whom her anger burns , From the Olympian summit down she flew To Ithac * , where , in the vestibule And on the threshold of Ulysses ' hall Grasping her brazen spear she stood , in ...
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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