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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... mind And manners learn'd of men in lands remote . He num'rous woes , on Ocean toss'd , endur'd , Anxious to save himself , and to conduct His foll'wers to their home ; yet all his care Preserv'd them not ; they perish'd self - destroy'd ...
... mind And manners learn'd of men in lands remote . He num'rous woes , on Ocean toss'd , endur'd , Anxious to save himself , and to conduct His foll'wers to their home ; yet all his care Preserv'd them not ; they perish'd self - destroy'd ...
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... mind Ægisthus slain By Agamemnon's celebrated son Orestes , and retracing in his thought That dread event , the Immortals thus address'd : How rash are humankind ! who charge on Us * The Ethiopians , according to Diodorus Siculus , are ...
... mind Ægisthus slain By Agamemnon's celebrated son Orestes , and retracing in his thought That dread event , the Immortals thus address'd : How rash are humankind ! who charge on Us * The Ethiopians , according to Diodorus Siculus , are ...
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... mind at ease , with you . May it not well suffice you to have us'd My noble patrimony as your own , While I was yet a child ? now , grown mature , And competent to understand the speech Of my instructors , feeling , too , a mind ODYSSEY ...
... mind at ease , with you . May it not well suffice you to have us'd My noble patrimony as your own , While I was yet a child ? now , grown mature , And competent to understand the speech Of my instructors , feeling , too , a mind ODYSSEY ...
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Homerus. Of my instructors , feeling , too , a mind Within me conscious of augmented pow'rs , I will attempt your ruin , be assur'd , Whether at Pylus , or continuing here . I go , indeed ( nor shall my voyage prove Of which I speak , a ...
Homerus. Of my instructors , feeling , too , a mind Within me conscious of augmented pow'rs , I will attempt your ruin , be assur'd , Whether at Pylus , or continuing here . I go , indeed ( nor shall my voyage prove Of which I speak , a ...
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... minds , then Jove ordain'd Our sorrowful return ; for neither wise Were all , nor righteous , therefore many found A fate disastrous through the vengeful ire Of Jove - born Pallas , who between the sons Of Atreus sharp contention ...
... minds , then Jove ordain'd Our sorrowful return ; for neither wise Were all , nor righteous , therefore many found A fate disastrous through the vengeful ire Of Jove - born Pallas , who between the sons Of Atreus sharp contention ...
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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