Homer's Odyssey, ed. with Engl. notes, etc., by W.W. Merry and J. Riddell

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Page 367 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 346 - I saw, what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
Page 430 - ... matres atque viri defunctaque corpora vita magnanimum heroum, pueri innuptaeque puellae, impositique rogis iuvenes ante ora parentum : quam multa in silvis autumni frigore primo lapsa cadunt folia, aut ad terram gurgite ab alto 310 quam multae glomerantur aves, ubi frigidus annus trans pontum fugat et terris immittit apricis.
Page 445 - Veneris nurus; sed me magna deum genetrix his detinet oris. iamque vale et nati serva communis amorem.' haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa volentem 790 dicere deseruit, tenuisque recessit in auras. ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum ; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno.

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