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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... fair Ogygia's isle , Who shall inform Calypso , nymph divine , Of this our purpose , that Ulysses , long A suff'rer , seek , at length , his home again . Myself will hence to Ithaca , mean - time , His son to animate , and with new ...
... fair Ogygia's isle , Who shall inform Calypso , nymph divine , Of this our purpose , that Ulysses , long A suff'rer , seek , at length , his home again . Myself will hence to Ithaca , mean - time , His son to animate , and with new ...
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... , whose form robust And fair proportions with delight I view , Be thou brave also , that renown like his Thou mayst acquire with ages yet to come . VOL . I. C But I will to my vessel now repair , And ODYSSEY I. 349-374 . 17.
... , whose form robust And fair proportions with delight I view , Be thou brave also , that renown like his Thou mayst acquire with ages yet to come . VOL . I. C But I will to my vessel now repair , And ODYSSEY I. 349-374 . 17.
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... fair handmaids follow'd her . She then , divinest of her sex , 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 ...
... fair handmaids follow'd her . She then , divinest of her sex , 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 ...
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... fair ; But she , mean - time , far otherwise intends . Her other arts exhausted all , she fram'd This stratagem ; a web of amplest size And subtlest woof beginning , thus she spake * : * The web she began was of the largest dimensions ...
... fair ; But she , mean - time , far otherwise intends . Her other arts exhausted all , she fram'd This stratagem ; a web of amplest size And subtlest woof beginning , thus she spake * : * The web she began was of the largest dimensions ...
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... fair proportions with delight I view , Be thou brave also , that renown like his Thou mayst acquire with ages yet to come . To whom Telemachus , discreet , replied : O Nestor ! Neleus ' son ! The pride of Greece ! And righteous was that ...
... fair proportions with delight I view , Be thou brave also , that renown like his Thou mayst acquire with ages yet to come . To whom Telemachus , discreet , replied : O Nestor ! Neleus ' son ! The pride of Greece ! And righteous was that ...
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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