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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... dread event , the Immortals thus address'd : How rash are humankind ! who charge on Us * The Ethiopians , according to Diodorus Siculus , are said to have been the first of the human race , who celebrated the worship of the Gods ; from ...
... dread event , the Immortals thus address'd : How rash are humankind ! who charge on Us * The Ethiopians , according to Diodorus Siculus , are said to have been the first of the human race , who celebrated the worship of the Gods ; from ...
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... dread the blame , Which else ye must incur from ev'ry state Around us , and the anger of the Gods , Lest they impute these impious deeds to you I next adjure you by Olympian Jove , By Themis , who convenes and who dissolves All councils ...
... dread the blame , Which else ye must incur from ev'ry state Around us , and the anger of the Gods , Lest they impute these impious deeds to you I next adjure you by Olympian Jove , By Themis , who convenes and who dissolves All councils ...
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... dread of all my sex , Should he , so wealthy , want at last a shroud . So spake the queen , and unsuspicious we With her request complied . Thenceforth all day She wove the ample web , and by the aid Of torches ravell'd it again at ...
... dread of all my sex , Should he , so wealthy , want at last a shroud . So spake the queen , and unsuspicious we With her request complied . Thenceforth all day She wove the ample web , and by the aid Of torches ravell'd it again at ...
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... dread , yet wish to hear . So I to whom thus Proteus in return : Laertes ' son , the lord of Ithaca- Him in an island weeping I beheld , Guest of the nymph Calypso , by constraint Her guest , and from his native land withheld By sad ...
... dread , yet wish to hear . So I to whom thus Proteus in return : Laertes ' son , the lord of Ithaca- Him in an island weeping I beheld , Guest of the nymph Calypso , by constraint Her guest , and from his native land withheld By sad ...
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... dread To overwhelm thee , for secur'd he goes By Pallas ; a protectress such as all Would wish to gain ; for harm can ne'er betide * Spondanus , though ready to grant every thing to maternal love , accounts the affection shown by ...
... dread To overwhelm thee , for secur'd he goes By Pallas ; a protectress such as all Would wish to gain ; for harm can ne'er betide * Spondanus , though ready to grant every thing to maternal love , accounts the affection shown by ...
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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