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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... , that Ulysses , long A suff'rer , seek , at length , his home again . Myself will hence to Ithaca , mean - time , His son to animate , and with new force Inspire him , that ( the Greecians all conven'd bid ODYSSEY I. 84-109 .
... , that Ulysses , long A suff'rer , seek , at length , his home again . Myself will hence to Ithaca , mean - time , His son to animate , and with new force Inspire him , that ( the Greecians all conven'd bid ODYSSEY I. 84-109 .
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... Seeking a people of another tongue Athwart the gloomy flood , in quest of brass , * Μάλ ' ατρεκέως — Pallas promises in these emphatical words that she will tell him the truth , yet begins with a fiction . The promise therefore is ...
... Seeking a people of another tongue Athwart the gloomy flood , in quest of brass , * Μάλ ' ατρεκέως — Pallas promises in these emphatical words that she will tell him the truth , yet begins with a fiction . The promise therefore is ...
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Homerus. Zacynthus , others also , rulers here In craggy Ithaca , my mother seek In marriage , and my household ... seeking some pois'nous drug , Wherewith to taint his brazen arrows keent , Which drug through fear of the eternal Gods ...
Homerus. Zacynthus , others also , rulers here In craggy Ithaca , my mother seek In marriage , and my household ... seeking some pois'nous drug , Wherewith to taint his brazen arrows keent , Which drug through fear of the eternal Gods ...
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... seek Intelligence of thy long absent sire . Some mortal may inform thee , or a word * , ** Orσa - a word spoken , with respect to the speaker , casually ; but with reference to the inquirer supposed to be sent for his inform- ation by ...
... seek Intelligence of thy long absent sire . Some mortal may inform thee , or a word * , ** Orσa - a word spoken , with respect to the speaker , casually ; but with reference to the inquirer supposed to be sent for his inform- ation by ...
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... seek again Thy native shores , and , having heap'd his tomb , And with due pomp his fun'ral rites perform'd , Make thou thy mother's spousals next thy care . These duties satisfied , delib'rate last , Whether thou shalt these troublers ...
... seek again Thy native shores , and , having heap'd his tomb , And with due pomp his fun'ral rites perform'd , Make thou thy mother's spousals next thy care . These duties satisfied , delib'rate last , Whether thou shalt these troublers ...
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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