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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Page 35
... winds , awhile , With outspread pinions ample side by side They floated ; but , erelong , hov'ring aloft , Right o'er the midst of the assembled chiefs They wheel'd around , clang'd all their num'rous plumes , And eyeing with a downward ...
... winds , awhile , With outspread pinions ample side by side They floated ; but , erelong , hov'ring aloft , Right o'er the midst of the assembled chiefs They wheel'd around , clang'd all their num'rous plumes , And eyeing with a downward ...
Page 61
... holding on our left , Or under Chios by the wind - swept heights Of Mimas . Then we ask'd from Jove a sign , And by a sign vouchsaf'd he bade us cut The wide sea to Euboca sheer athwart , So soonest ODYSSEY III . 192-217 . 61.
... holding on our left , Or under Chios by the wind - swept heights Of Mimas . Then we ask'd from Jove a sign , And by a sign vouchsaf'd he bade us cut The wide sea to Euboca sheer athwart , So soonest ODYSSEY III . 192-217 . 61.
Page 62
... wind One moment thwarted us , or died away , When Jove had once commanded it to blow * . Thus , uninform'd , I have arriv'd , my son ! Nor of the Greecians , who are sav'd have heard , Or who have perish'd ; but what news soe'er I have ...
... wind One moment thwarted us , or died away , When Jove had once commanded it to blow * . Thus , uninform'd , I have arriv'd , my son ! Nor of the Greecians , who are sav'd have heard , Or who have perish'd ; but what news soe'er I have ...
Page 69
... winds and waves to the Ægyptian shore . Thus he , provision gath'ring as he went And gold abundant , roam'd to distant lands And nations of another tongue . Mean - time Ægisthus , these enormities at home Devising , slew Atrides , and ...
... winds and waves to the Ægyptian shore . Thus he , provision gath'ring as he went And gold abundant , roam'd to distant lands And nations of another tongue . Mean - time Ægisthus , these enormities at home Devising , slew Atrides , and ...
Page 132
... wind , Bear him , and o'er th ' illimitable Earth , Then took his rod , with which , at will , all eyes He softly shuts , or opens them again . So arm'd , forth flew the valiant Argicide . Alighting on Pieria , down he stoop'd To Ocean ...
... wind , Bear him , and o'er th ' illimitable Earth , Then took his rod , with which , at will , all eyes He softly shuts , or opens them again . So arm'd , forth flew the valiant Argicide . Alighting on Pieria , down he stoop'd To Ocean ...
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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