The Odyssey, books i.-xii., tr. into Engl. verse with notes [&c.] by sir C. Du Cane1880 |
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Alcinous amidst answer Atreus Atrides bade bear behold beneath bore breast brought chief Circe Circe's comrades couch Cyclops dear death deed deep divine doom dost doth dread drew e'en Eurylochus eyes Faerie Queene fair fame fate feast fell friends gift goddess gods grief guest Hades halls hand hast hath heart heaven hither honour Icarius immortal isle Ithaca Jove king land Laodamas Menelaus mighty mortal mother naught ne'er neath Neleus nigh night noble Numina nymph o'er once palace Pallas Peisistratus Phæacia's Poseidon pray Pylos quæ rosy-fingered Morn sail seat sheep ship shore sight sire sons sore sorrow sought spake sped speech SPENSER spouse stood straightway stranger suitors sweet swift swift ship tale tall tears Teiresias Telemachus thee thine thou throng thyself toil Troy twain Ulysses unto VIRG wave ween Whilst wind wine words wrath
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Page 198 - Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron, of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
Page 109 - For softness she and sweet attractive grace: He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Page 190 - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: Attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd, and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth: at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way.
Page 90 - ... 80 Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem impulit in latus ; ac venti, velut agmine facto, qua data porta, ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
Page 227 - Jacob, i vol. — Adam Bede. 2 vols.— Scenes of Clerical Life. 2 vols.— The Mill on the Floss. 2 vols. — Felix Holt. 2 vols. — Middlemarch. 3 vols. — Daniel Deronda. 3 vols.— The Spanish Gypsy, i vol.
Page 103 - The Gods, who haunt The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind, Nor ever falls the least white star of snow, Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans, Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar Their sacred everlasting calm!
Page 106 - On the' other side: which when the' arch-felon saw, Due entrance he disdain'd ; and, in contempt, At one slight bound high over-leap'd all bound Of hill or highest wall, and sheer within Lights on his feet. As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey...
Page 102 - Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow. Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
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Page 228 - STEPHENS. The Book of the Farm ; detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Farm-Labourer, FieldWorker, and Cattleman.