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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... The banquet , first , then tell me thy desire . * Taphos was one of the Echinades , islands of the Ionian sea , and was inhabited by the Teleboans . - B . & C. So saying , toward the spacious hall he mov'd Follow'd ODYSSEY I. 130-153 .
... The banquet , first , then tell me thy desire . * Taphos was one of the Echinades , islands of the Ionian sea , and was inhabited by the Teleboans . - B . & C. So saying , toward the spacious hall he mov'd Follow'd ODYSSEY I. 130-153 .
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Homerus. So saying , toward the spacious hall he mov'd Follow'd by Pallas , and , arriving soon Beneath the lofty roof , plac'd her bright spear Within a pillar's cavity , long time The armoury where many a spear had stood , Bright ...
Homerus. So saying , toward the spacious hall he mov'd Follow'd by Pallas , and , arriving soon Beneath the lofty roof , plac'd her bright spear Within a pillar's cavity , long time The armoury where many a spear had stood , Bright ...
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... saying , Liocritus dissolved in haste * The poet , it is observed by the scholiast , represents Antinoüs as a plain and artless speaker , Eurymachus as vehement and haughty , and Liocritus as a man of not many words , but daring and ...
... saying , Liocritus dissolved in haste * The poet , it is observed by the scholiast , represents Antinoüs as a plain and artless speaker , Eurymachus as vehement and haughty , and Liocritus as a man of not many words , but daring and ...
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... by Minerva in the form of Telemachus as an allegorical way of saying , that the Ithacans , being much impressed and affected with the remembrance of what Now set the sun , and twilight dimm'd the ways ODYSSEY II . 473-491 . 47.
... by Minerva in the form of Telemachus as an allegorical way of saying , that the Ithacans , being much impressed and affected with the remembrance of what Now set the sun , and twilight dimm'd the ways ODYSSEY II . 473-491 . 47.
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... saying , Minerva led him thence , whom he With nimble steps attending , soon arriv'd Among the multitude . There Nestor sat , And Nestor's sons , while , busily the feast Tending , his num'rous followers roasted , some , The viands ...
... saying , Minerva led him thence , whom he With nimble steps attending , soon arriv'd Among the multitude . There Nestor sat , And Nestor's sons , while , busily the feast Tending , his num'rous followers roasted , some , The viands ...
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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