Homer: The OdysseyBlackwood, 1870 - 136 páginas |
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... whole range three decades of years . It is with the last ten that the Odyssey has to do ; and as in the Iliad , though the siege itself had consumed ten years , it is with the last year only that the poet deals ; so in this second great ...
... whole range three decades of years . It is with the last ten that the Odyssey has to do ; and as in the Iliad , though the siege itself had consumed ten years , it is with the last year only that the poet deals ; so in this second great ...
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... into the poetry of such very different nations ? So , too , when Helen- now restored to her place - in Menelaus's household - comes forth to greet the strangers , her whole surroundings are rather those of an 34 THE ODYSSEY .
... into the poetry of such very different nations ? So , too , when Helen- now restored to her place - in Menelaus's household - comes forth to greet the strangers , her whole surroundings are rather those of an 34 THE ODYSSEY .
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The Odyssey William Lucas Collins. strangers , her whole surroundings are rather those of an Eastern sultana than of any princess of Spartan race . " Forth from her fragrant chamber Helen passed Like gold - bowed Dian : and Adraste came ...
The Odyssey William Lucas Collins. strangers , her whole surroundings are rather those of an Eastern sultana than of any princess of Spartan race . " Forth from her fragrant chamber Helen passed Like gold - bowed Dian : and Adraste came ...
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... whole , more dig- nified than those of the Iliad . They are divided in this poem , as well as in the other , in their loves and hates towards mortals , but their dissensions are neither so pas- sionate nor so grotesque . Minerva ...
... whole , more dig- nified than those of the Iliad . They are divided in this poem , as well as in the other , in their loves and hates towards mortals , but their dissensions are neither so pas- sionate nor so grotesque . Minerva ...
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... whole , the moral tone of Homer is far purer . But there is one bright creation of mediæval fiction which finds no counterpart in the song of the Greek bard . It was only Christianity - one might almost say it was only medieval ...
... whole , the moral tone of Homer is far purer . But there is one bright creation of mediæval fiction which finds no counterpart in the song of the Greek bard . It was only Christianity - one might almost say it was only medieval ...
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