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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... may please thee , even in our ears . The rest , all those who had perdition ' scap'd By war or on the Deep , dwelt now at home ; Him only , of his country and his wife VOL . I. B 1 Alike desirous , in her hollow grot Calypso , ODYSSEY. ...
... may please thee , even in our ears . The rest , all those who had perdition ' scap'd By war or on the Deep , dwelt now at home ; Him only , of his country and his wife VOL . I. B 1 Alike desirous , in her hollow grot Calypso , ODYSSEY. ...
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... rest Telemachus himself Mark'd her , for sad amid them all he sat , Portraying in deep thought contemplative His noble sire , and questioning if yet Perchance the hero might return , to chase From all his palace that imperious herd , To ...
... rest Telemachus himself Mark'd her , for sad amid them all he sat , Portraying in deep thought contemplative His noble sire , and questioning if yet Perchance the hero might return , to chase From all his palace that imperious herd , To ...
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... Rests , for decision , with the Gods alone . Mean - time I counsel thee , thyself to think By what means likeliest thou shalt expel These from thy doors . Now mark me : close attend . To - morrow , summoning the Greecian chiefs To ...
... Rests , for decision , with the Gods alone . Mean - time I counsel thee , thyself to think By what means likeliest thou shalt expel These from thy doors . Now mark me : close attend . To - morrow , summoning the Greecian chiefs To ...
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... rest Also retir'd , in his own chamber , built On the hall - roof , conspicuous from afar . Sage Euryclea , bearing in each hand A torch , preceded him ; her sire was Ops , Pisenor's son , and , in her early prime , At his own cost ...
... rest Also retir'd , in his own chamber , built On the hall - roof , conspicuous from afar . Sage Euryclea , bearing in each hand A torch , preceded him ; her sire was Ops , Pisenor's son , and , in her early prime , At his own cost ...
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... rest ; Else I the censure 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 ...
... rest ; Else I the censure 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 ...
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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