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... islands of the Mediterranean , until he was stricken with blindness , when he returned to his native place , and composed his two great poems , which he afterwards recited through the towns of Asia Minor , and at Athens , as a wandering ...
... islands of the Mediterranean , until he was stricken with blindness , when he returned to his native place , and composed his two great poems , which he afterwards recited through the towns of Asia Minor , and at Athens , as a wandering ...
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... island kingdom of Ithaca again , where his aged father Laertes , his wife Penelope , and his son Telemachus have so long expected him . The queen is beset by suitors , who are unbidden guests at the royal table ; but she still firmly ...
... island kingdom of Ithaca again , where his aged father Laertes , his wife Penelope , and his son Telemachus have so long expected him . The queen is beset by suitors , who are unbidden guests at the royal table ; but she still firmly ...
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... love mercy , but let him rule with iron hand and work all iniquity ; for lo ! what is Ulysses ' reward ? ' Jupiter is moved , and despatches Mercury to Calypso's island grotto , with his 12 THE CLASSICS FOR THE MILLION .
... love mercy , but let him rule with iron hand and work all iniquity ; for lo ! what is Ulysses ' reward ? ' Jupiter is moved , and despatches Mercury to Calypso's island grotto , with his 12 THE CLASSICS FOR THE MILLION .
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... island grotto , with his command for the release of the captive mortal . She obeys , but remonstrates with her lover at his willingness to leave her , whilst he is apparently more desirous to see his home again than his wife . He sets ...
... island grotto , with his command for the release of the captive mortal . She obeys , but remonstrates with her lover at his willingness to leave her , whilst he is apparently more desirous to see his home again than his wife . He sets ...
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... island inhabited by the Cyclopes , a race of gigantic monsters having one eye only in the centre of their foreheads . One of them , Polyphemus , a son of Neptune , dwelt alone in a cave near the shore , where Ulysses and his crew ...
... island inhabited by the Cyclopes , a race of gigantic monsters having one eye only in the centre of their foreheads . One of them , Polyphemus , a son of Neptune , dwelt alone in a cave near the shore , where Ulysses and his crew ...
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