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... lapse of more than two thousand years , still entrance the imagination with their inimitable charms of freshness and originality . LONDON , 1st January 1881 . H. G. CONTENTS . Greek Authors . DIED B.C. 850 . HOMER- vi PREFACE .
... lapse of more than two thousand years , still entrance the imagination with their inimitable charms of freshness and originality . LONDON , 1st January 1881 . H. G. CONTENTS . Greek Authors . DIED B.C. 850 . HOMER- vi PREFACE .
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... thousand lines , and the date of the story , which embraces a period of thirty years , is about twelve hundred years before the Christian era . It passes over the carrying away of Helen , wife of Mene- laus , King of Sparta , by Paris ...
... thousand lines , and the date of the story , which embraces a period of thirty years , is about twelve hundred years before the Christian era . It passes over the carrying away of Helen , wife of Mene- laus , King of Sparta , by Paris ...
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... thousand men , and flies to Jupiter , who rates him soundly , but bids Poon heal him , and Hebe prepares him a bath . The fight continues , and Diomed encounters Glaucus , who , in answer to his inquiry , replies , ― ' Brave son of ...
... thousand men , and flies to Jupiter , who rates him soundly , but bids Poon heal him , and Hebe prepares him a bath . The fight continues , and Diomed encounters Glaucus , who , in answer to his inquiry , replies , ― ' Brave son of ...
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... thousand years , nothing has changed so little as human nature . As in the Iliad one year only of the siege is dealt with , so in the Odyssey the main events are those comprised in the last six weeks of the entire tale of Troy . Between ...
... thousand years , nothing has changed so little as human nature . As in the Iliad one year only of the siege is dealt with , so in the Odyssey the main events are those comprised in the last six weeks of the entire tale of Troy . Between ...
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... thousands , with their weird cries , and , fleeing back to his ship , he put out again to sea . On nearing the island where dwelt the Siren sisters , who lure all passing mariners by the fascination of their song , he B stopped the ears ...
... thousands , with their weird cries , and , fleeing back to his ship , he put out again to sea . On nearing the island where dwelt the Siren sisters , who lure all passing mariners by the fascination of their song , he B stopped the ears ...
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