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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... youth he be , Or of our senators by age matur'd ? Have tidings reach'd him of our host's return , Which here he would divulge ? or brings he aught Of public import on a diff'rent theme ? I deem him , whosoe'er he be , a man Worthy to ...
... youth he be , Or of our senators by age matur'd ? Have tidings reach'd him of our host's return , Which here he would divulge ? or brings he aught Of public import on a diff'rent theme ? I deem him , whosoe'er he be , a man Worthy to ...
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... youth His father's chosen friends , shall furnish forth Telemachus ; but likelier far it seems , That news should reach him here , than that himself In search of news should reach the Pylian shore * . Thus saying , Liocritus dissolved ...
... youth His father's chosen friends , shall furnish forth Telemachus ; but likelier far it seems , That news should reach him here , than that himself In search of news should reach the Pylian shore * . Thus saying , Liocritus dissolved ...
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... youth Arrogant as his fellows , thus began : Our doom is fix'd , and we must all be slain . Either Telemachus will aids procure From sandy Pylus , or will bring them arm'd From Sparta ; such is his tremendous drift . Even to fruitful ...
... youth Arrogant as his fellows , thus began : Our doom is fix'd , and we must all be slain . Either Telemachus will aids procure From sandy Pylus , or will bring them arm'd From Sparta ; such is his tremendous drift . Even to fruitful ...
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... youth beware , How he accosts the man of many years . But thus the blue - ey'd Goddess in return : Telemachus ! Thou wilt , in part , thyself Fit speech devise , and Heav'n will give the rest ; For thou wast neither born , nor hast been ...
... youth beware , How he accosts the man of many years . But thus the blue - ey'd Goddess in return : Telemachus ! Thou wilt , in part , thyself Fit speech devise , and Heav'n will give the rest ; For thou wast neither born , nor hast been ...
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... youth receiv'd So just and wise , who to herself had first The golden cup presented * . Then she pray'd , And thus the Sov'reign of the Seas ador'd : Hear , earth - encircler Neptune ! O vouchsafe * Plutarch observes , that Minerva ...
... youth receiv'd So just and wise , who to herself had first The golden cup presented * . Then she pray'd , And thus the Sov'reign of the Seas ador'd : Hear , earth - encircler Neptune ! O vouchsafe * Plutarch observes , that Minerva ...
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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