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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... hand he seiz'd , The brazen spear took from her , and in words With welcome wing'd Minerva thus address'd : Stranger ! Thou shalt be welcome ; ent'ring , share The banquet , first , then tell me thy desire . * Taphos was one of the ...
... hand he seiz'd , The brazen spear took from her , and in words With welcome wing'd Minerva thus address'd : Stranger ! Thou shalt be welcome ; ent'ring , share The banquet , first , then tell me thy desire . * Taphos was one of the ...
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... hands , supplied them next With a resplendent table , which the chaste Directress of the household heap'd with bread And dainties , remnants of the last regale . Then , in his turn , the sewer * with sav'ry meats Serv'd them , of ...
... hands , supplied them next With a resplendent table , which the chaste Directress of the household heap'd with bread And dainties , remnants of the last regale . Then , in his turn , the sewer * with sav'ry meats Serv'd them , of ...
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... hands . The heralds pour'd pure water ; then the maids Attended them with bread in baskets heap'd , And eager they ... hand consign'd His beauteous lyre ; he through constraint regal'd The suitors with his song , and while the chords He ...
... hands . The heralds pour'd pure water ; then the maids Attended them with bread in baskets heap'd , And eager they ... hand consign'd His beauteous lyre ; he through constraint regal'd The suitors with his song , and while the chords He ...
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... Hell . The birds have virgin looks , but they annoy The scent with filthiest ordure ; talons arm Their hands , and famine pales their ghastly cheeks . Zacynthus , others also , rulers here In craggy Ithaca 14 . ODYSSEY I. 286-303 .
... Hell . The birds have virgin looks , but they annoy The scent with filthiest ordure ; talons arm Their hands , and famine pales their ghastly cheeks . Zacynthus , others also , rulers here In craggy Ithaca 14 . ODYSSEY I. 286-303 .
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... 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 .
... 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