Translations of Homer: The OdysseyMethuen, 1967 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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... beauty to the address of Ulysses , and it could not but be very accept- able to a young Lady , to hear herself compar'd to the greatest wonder in Creation . Dionysius Halicarn . ( De Comp . Verb . xvi 98 ) observes the particular beauty ...
... beauty to the address of Ulysses , and it could not but be very accept- able to a young Lady , to hear herself compar'd to the greatest wonder in Creation . Dionysius Halicarn . ( De Comp . Verb . xvi 98 ) observes the particular beauty ...
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... beauty , and Minerva for this reason immediately improves it . Eustathius . 19. Pallas with grace divine his frame ( sic ) improves . ] This circumstance has been repeated several times almost in the same words , since the beginning of ...
... beauty , and Minerva for this reason immediately improves it . Eustathius . 19. Pallas with grace divine his frame ( sic ) improves . ] This circumstance has been repeated several times almost in the same words , since the beginning of ...
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... beauty of Homer , in a language so much inferior ; but I have endeavour'd to imitate what I could not equal . I have clog'd the verse with the roughness and identity of a letter , which is the harshest our language affords ; and clogg'd ...
... beauty of Homer , in a language so much inferior ; but I have endeavour'd to imitate what I could not equal . I have clog'd the verse with the roughness and identity of a letter , which is the harshest our language affords ; and clogg'd ...
Contents
Telemachus and Penelope Ulysses among | 36 |
Juno deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus | 156 |
The Fight of Ulysses and Irus | 166 |
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Achilles Action Alcinous Ancients appears arms attend bear beauty beginning calls Calypso cause character chief consequently Dacier death deep descends divine Eustathius expression eyes Fable fate father feast gives Goddess Gods Greeks ground hand happy heav'n Heroe Homer honour Iliad Island Ithaca Jove kind King land manner mean Menelaus mind Minerva nature necessary Nestor never night o'er objection observes Odyssey opinion passage Penelope person Poem Poet Poetry pow'r Prince probable Queen race Reader reason relation remarkable rest rise royal says shade shews shore soul speaks story sufferings Suitors tears Telemachus tells thee thing thou thought thro train Troy true truth Ulysses verse vessel Virgil voyage whole winds wine wisdom wise woes youth