The Works of the Greek and Roman Poets, Band 3,Teil 1Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1813 |
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Achilles action address'd Agamemnon Alcinous arms Atrides attend beneath bless'd bowl brave breast Calypso coast command coursers cried crown'd Cyclops dæmon death deep descends dire divine dome dreadful E'en Eteoneus Eurylochus Eurymachus eyes fable fair falchion fame fate father feast flies gales goddess gods grace Grecian grief guest hand haste heaven hero honours Icarius Iliad isle Ithaca Jove king labours land Laodamas maid mind monarch mortal Nausicaa Neleus Neptune Nestor night nymph o'er oars ODYSSEY palace Pallas Phæacian Pisistratus plac'd plain poem poet press'd prince Pylos queen race rage realms replies rest rise rites roar rock roll'd round royal sacred sails shade shining ship sire skies soft sorrows soul Sparta spoke stranger Swift Taphian tears Telemachus tempest thee thou throne toils touch'd train Troy Ulysses vessel wandering waves winds wine wise woes wretched youth
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Seite 85 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Seite 34 - Big tears of transport stand in every eye: I check their fondness, and command to fly. Aboard in haste they heave the wealthy sheep, And snatch their oars, and rush into the deep. Now off at sea, and from the shallows clear, As far as human voice could reach the ear; With taunts the distant giant I accost, Hear me, O Cyclop!
Seite 67 - Not first, the Power of wisdom march'd before, And ere the sacrificing throng he join'd, Admonish'd thus his well-attending mind: ' Proceed, my son! this youthful shame expel; An honest business never blush to tell.
Seite 130 - But these, no doubt, some oracle explore, That tells, the great Ulysses is no more. Hence springs their confidence, and from our sighs Their rapine strengthens, and their riots rise : Constant as Jove the night and day bestows, Bleeds a whole hecatomb, a vintage flows.
Seite 85 - The smooth-hair'd horses, and the rapid car. Observant of his word, the word scarce spoke, The sons obey, and join them to the yoke. Then bread and wine a ready handmaid brings, And presents, such as suit the state of kings. The glittering...
Seite 118 - While in th' embrace of pleasing sleep I lay, Sudden, invited by auspicious gales, They land my goods, and hoist their flying sails.
Seite 98 - The silent fisher casts th' insidious food, With fraudful care he waits the finny prize, And sudden lifts it quivering to the skies...
Seite 4 - Rise, then, ye skill'd in measures ; let him bear Your fame to men that breathe a distant air ; And faithful say, to you the powers belong To race, to sail, to dance, to chant the song. " But, herald, to the palace swift repair, And the soft lyre to grace our pastimes bear.
Seite 163 - Four acres was the' allotted space of ground, Fenc'd with a green enclosure all around : Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould ; The reddening apple lipens here to gold : Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear. And verdant olives flourish round the year.
Seite 164 - This through the gardens leads its streams around, Visits each plant, and waters all the ground: While that in pipes beneath the palace flows, And thence its current on the town bestows ; To various use their various streams they bring, The people one, and one supplies the king...