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... bear his name , or whether they are the collected works of several composers , dove - tailed into each other by some clever editor of ancient times . Uncritical readers , however , will prefer the idea of the blind old bard singing his ...
... bear his name , or whether they are the collected works of several composers , dove - tailed into each other by some clever editor of ancient times . Uncritical readers , however , will prefer the idea of the blind old bard singing his ...
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... bear off the corpse of Patroclus to Achilles ' tent . Vulcan is making velocipedes and automaton helpers when Thetis applies to him , but he willingly accedes to her request on behalf of her son . The helmet and breast - plate and body ...
... bear off the corpse of Patroclus to Achilles ' tent . Vulcan is making velocipedes and automaton helpers when Thetis applies to him , but he willingly accedes to her request on behalf of her son . The helmet and breast - plate and body ...
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... bear witness to the generally accepted be- lief that , in the course of so many centuries , 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 ...
... bear witness to the generally accepted be- lief that , in the course of so many centuries , 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 ...
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... bear away his body , whilst the other half follow Ismene with that of Eteocles . THE STORY OF ORESTES . 1. Agamemnon . A ON a tower of Agamemnon's palace at Argos a watchman is looking forth into the night . During ten long years he has ...
... bear away his body , whilst the other half follow Ismene with that of Eteocles . THE STORY OF ORESTES . 1. Agamemnon . A ON a tower of Agamemnon's palace at Argos a watchman is looking forth into the night . During ten long years he has ...
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... bear , In Arcady , Lyceæus ' royal shrine ! Pellene , Sicyon of them tell Megara and the hallowed dell Of Eacids ; Eleusis ; Marathon bright ; And wealthy towns that bask ' neath Ætna's height ; Euboea's island . Nay , all Greece ...
... bear , In Arcady , Lyceæus ' royal shrine ! Pellene , Sicyon of them tell Megara and the hallowed dell Of Eacids ; Eleusis ; Marathon bright ; And wealthy towns that bask ' neath Ætna's height ; Euboea's island . Nay , all Greece ...
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