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... remarkable feature in the tale . It reads far more like a scene from the Arabian Nights ' than a lay of early Greece . The lofty roofs fling back a flashing light as the travellers enter , " like as the splendour of the sun or moon ...
... remarkable feature in the tale . It reads far more like a scene from the Arabian Nights ' than a lay of early Greece . The lofty roofs fling back a flashing light as the travellers enter , " like as the splendour of the sun or moon ...
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... remarkable that in the ancient Welsh poem , ' Y Godo- din , ' by Aneurin Owen , of which the supposed date is A.D. 570 , there are very similar properties and scenery : knights in " armour of gold " and " purple plumes , " mounted on ...
... remarkable that in the ancient Welsh poem , ' Y Godo- din , ' by Aneurin Owen , of which the supposed date is A.D. 570 , there are very similar properties and scenery : knights in " armour of gold " and " purple plumes , " mounted on ...
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... remarkable an example . ] But she will obey , as needs she must . Ulysses shall go ; only he must build him- self a boat , for there is none in her island . She goes herself to announce to him his coming deliverance . She finds him ...
... remarkable an example . ] But she will obey , as needs she must . Ulysses shall go ; only he must build him- self a boat , for there is none in her island . She goes herself to announce to him his coming deliverance . She finds him ...
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... remarkable , Irus trembles at the thought of encountering him . But it is too late with a single blow Ulysses breaks his jaw , and drags him out into the courtyard . The revellers now hail the conqueror with loud applause , and award ...
... remarkable , Irus trembles at the thought of encountering him . But it is too late with a single blow Ulysses breaks his jaw , and drags him out into the courtyard . The revellers now hail the conqueror with loud applause , and award ...
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... remarkable features , to the romances of medi- æval chivalry , has been long ago remarked , and has already been incidentally noticed in these pages . The peculiar caste of kings and chiefs - or kings and knights , as they are called in ...
... remarkable features , to the romances of medi- æval chivalry , has been long ago remarked , and has already been incidentally noticed in these pages . The peculiar caste of kings and chiefs - or kings and knights , as they are called in ...
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Página 117 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Página 60 - ; And all at once they sang, " Our island home Is far beyond the wave ; we will no longer roam.
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 118 - 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...
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