 There lies the land, and there the people dwell Of the Cimmerians, in eternal cloud And darkness. Never does the glorious sun Look on them with his rays, when he goes up Into the starry sky, nor when again «° He sinks from heaven to earth. Unwholesome...  The Odyssey of Homer - Página 225por Homer - 1899Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Telemachus Thomas Timayenis - 1885 - 338 páginas
...sorceress to the farthest confines of the ocean, where the Kimmerians, a northern people, dwelt: " There lies the land, and there the people dwell Of...Unwholesome night O'erhangs the wretched race." We have quoted the above verses, because it is evident from them that, during the Homeric age, there already... | |
 | Marvin Richardson Vincent - 1890 - 622 páginas
...of Oceanns. And pass to Pluto's comfortless abode." " Our bark Reached the far confines of Oceanus. There lies the land and there the people dwell Of the Cimmerians, in eternal cloud And darkness." " Odyssey," xi., 13-15. To bring up. There is no need. He is already risen. 8. The word is nigh thee.... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 358 páginas
...desert. In the Odyssey, xi., 14, the Cimmerians are dwellers "beyond the ocean" in perpetual darkness. " There lies the land, and there the people dwell Of the Cimmerians, in eternal cloud And darkness." 12. yclept. The old past participle of verb clepen, to call. "They clepe us drunkards." — Hamlet,... | |
 | John Milton - 1898 - 358 páginas
...desert. In the Odyssey, xi., 14, the Cimmerians are dwellers "beyond the ocean" in perpetual darkness. " There lies the land, and there the people dwell Of the Cimmerians, in eternal cloud And darkness." 12. yclept. The old past participle of verb clepen, to call. "They clepe us drunkards." — Hamlet,... | |
 | Charles Van Norden - 1906 - 314 páginas
...and were to the polite and to the "many" the most ancient and trustworthy information on the subject. "In eternal cloud And darkness. Never does the glorious...earth. Unwholesome night O'erhangs the wretched race." Thus Ulysses described what he beheld in the region of shadows, as his sacrifice to the dead progressed:... | |
 | William Lamartine Snyder - 1915 - 382 páginas
...influence of the life giving sun, in this region of the dead, they reached the land of the Cimmerians. " There lies the land, and there the people dwell Of...earth. Unwholesome night O'erhangs the wretched race." The Scythians were expert archers and excelled in horsemanship. They overran not only Media, Persia... | |
 | 1903 - 708 páginas
...went down; The paths of the great sea were darkened, and our bark Reached the far confines of Oceanus. There lies the land, and there the people dwell Of...earth. Unwholesome night O'erhangs the wretched race." This idea that the abode of Pluto is one of darkness, sorrow antf pain, rather than of joy, runs through... | |
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