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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... 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 whom they received ...
... 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 whom they received ...
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... Immortals ever - blest ordain , That wise Ulysses to his home return , Dispatch we then Hermes the Argicide , Our messenger , to fair Ogygia's isle , Who shall inform Calypso , nymph divine , Of this our purpose , that Ulysses , long A ...
... Immortals ever - blest ordain , That wise Ulysses to his home return , Dispatch we then Hermes the Argicide , Our messenger , to fair Ogygia's isle , Who shall inform Calypso , nymph divine , Of this our purpose , that Ulysses , long A ...
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... Immortals I have thus resolv'd . But swear , that till eleven days be past , Or twelve , or till , inquiry made , she learn Herself my going , thou wilt nought impart Of this my purpose to my mother's ear , Lest all her beauties fade ...
... Immortals I have thus resolv'd . But swear , that till eleven days be past , Or twelve , or till , inquiry made , she learn Herself my going , thou wilt nought impart Of this my purpose to my mother's ear , Lest all her beauties fade ...
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... Immortals all things know ) What God detains me , and my course forbids Hence to my country o'er the fishy Deep ? I ... Immortal Proteus , the Ægyptian , haunts These shores , familiar with all Ocean's gulfs , Neptune's attendant ever ...
... Immortals all things know ) What God detains me , and my course forbids Hence to my country o'er the fishy Deep ? I ... Immortal Proteus , the Ægyptian , haunts These shores , familiar with all Ocean's gulfs , Neptune's attendant ever ...
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... Immortals all things know ) What God detains me , and my course forbids Hence to my country o'er the fishy Deep ? So I ; when thus the old one of the waves : * But thy plain duty was to have ador'd Jove 100 ODYSSEY IV . 548-572 .
... Immortals all things know ) What God detains me , and my course forbids Hence to my country o'er the fishy Deep ? So I ; when thus the old one of the waves : * But thy plain duty was to have ador'd Jove 100 ODYSSEY IV . 548-572 .
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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