Homer: The OdysseyBlackwood, 1882 - 136 páginas |
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A. C. vol Achilles adventures Agamemnon Alcinous ancient Antinous banquet beauty bids Calypso character CHARLES DU CANE charmed chief Circe companions comrades crew critics Cyclops dark dead deep disguised divine doth enchantress English Verse escape Eumæus Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fair fate father feast goddess gods Greek guest halls hand hath heart Helen hero Homer honour huge Iliad immortal island Ithaca king Laertes land long watching lord lotus Lotus-eaters maiden Menelaus Minerva modern mortal mother Nausicaa Neoptolemus Nestor night noble Noman Odyssey once palace Penelope Phæacian PHILIP STANHOPE WORSLEY Pisistratus poem poet poet's Polyphemus princess Pylos queen reader recognise romance round sail says Sea-god ship shore siege sleep song Sparta spirit story stranger strong suitors sweet Tale of Troy tears Telemachus tell thee thou Tiresias toil Translated travellers Ulysses vengeance voyage wanderings wife wine Worsley young
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Página 102 - Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
Página 101 - That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads...
Página 107 - Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day : now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Página 60 - And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam.
Página 102 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and, sitting well in order, smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
Página 69 - The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil : Unknown, and like esteemed, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon ; And yet more medicinal is it than that Moly That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave.
Página 34 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly ; but it lies Deep-meadowed, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crowned with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Página 47 - Onely she turnd a pin, and by and by It cut away upon the yielding wave, Ne cared she her course for to apply ; For it was taught the way which she would have, And both from rocks and...
Página 76 - Scoff not at death,' he answered, ' noble chief! Rather would I in the sun's warmth divine Serve a poor churl who drags his days in grief, Than the whole lordship of the dead were mine.
Página 52 - Whom the Muse loved, and gave him good and ill ; 111, that of light she did his eyes deprive, Good, that sweet minstrelsies divine at will She lent him, and a voice men's ears to thrill.