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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... arriv'd New to our isle , or wast thou heretofore My father's guest ? Since many to our house Resorted in those happier days , for he Drew irresistibly the hearts of all . Then thus the Goddess of the azure eyes : I will with all ...
... arriv'd New to our isle , or wast thou heretofore My father's guest ? Since many to our house Resorted in those happier days , for he Drew irresistibly the hearts of all . Then thus the Goddess of the azure eyes : I will with all ...
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... arriv'd , though still it seems The adverse 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 ...
... arriv'd , though still it seems The adverse 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 ...
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... arriv'd Of all the Greecians ; and , if there thou learn , That still thy father lives , and hope obtain Of his return , then , suffer as thou mayst , With patience wait his coming yet a year . But shouldst thou learn his death , then ...
... arriv'd Of all the Greecians ; and , if there thou learn , That still thy father lives , and hope obtain Of his return , then , suffer as thou mayst , With patience wait his coming yet a year . But shouldst thou learn his death , then ...
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... arriv'd In presence of that lawless throng , beneath The portal of her stately mansion stood , Between her maidens , with her lucid veil Her lovely features mantling . There , profuse She wept , and thus the sacred bard bespake ...
... arriv'd In presence of that lawless throng , beneath The portal of her stately mansion stood , Between her maidens , with her lucid veil Her lovely features mantling . There , profuse She wept , and thus the sacred bard bespake ...
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... purpose to take the management of his fa- mily henceforth into his own hands . To be master , in short , for the time to come , and a child no longer . - B . 1 Her upper chamber . There arriv'd , she wept Her 20 ODYSSEY I. 427-446 .
... purpose to take the management of his fa- mily henceforth into his own hands . To be master , in short , for the time to come , and a child no longer . - B . 1 Her upper chamber . There arriv'd , she wept Her 20 ODYSSEY I. 427-446 .
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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