Translations of Homer: The OdysseyMethuen, 1967 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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... eyes shall witness and confirm my tale , Our youth how dex'trous , and how fleet our sail , When justly tim'd with equal sweep they row , And Ocean whitens in long tracts below . 420 Thus he . No word th ' experienc'd man replies , But ...
... eyes shall witness and confirm my tale , Our youth how dex'trous , and how fleet our sail , When justly tim'd with equal sweep they row , And Ocean whitens in long tracts below . 420 Thus he . No word th ' experienc'd man replies , But ...
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... eyes in floods of sorrow drown'd . As from fresh pastures and the dewy field 485 468. More young , —more graceful to my eyes . ] Homer excellently carries on his allegory ; he intends by this expression of the enlargement of the beauty ...
... eyes in floods of sorrow drown'd . As from fresh pastures and the dewy field 485 468. More young , —more graceful to my eyes . ] Homer excellently carries on his allegory ; he intends by this expression of the enlargement of the beauty ...
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... eyes down from the forehead , of such thickness that it scarce is able to remove it , to guide it self from danger ; but it kills not by its breath , but with emanations darted from its eyes : The beast was well known in the time of ...
... eyes down from the forehead , of such thickness that it scarce is able to remove it , to guide it self from danger ; but it kills not by its breath , but with emanations darted from its eyes : The beast was well known in the time of ...
Contents
Telemachus and Penelope Ulysses among | 36 |
Juno deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus | 156 |
The Fight of Ulysses and Irus | 166 |
Copyright | |
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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