Homer: The OdysseyBlackwood, 1870 - 136 páginas |
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... Song of the Sirens - all amongst our national heirlooms of art - assume a fair acquaintance with the later Homeric fable on the part of the public for whom they were painted . The secret of this greater popularity may lie in the fact ...
... Song of the Sirens - all amongst our national heirlooms of art - assume a fair acquaintance with the later Homeric fable on the part of the public for whom they were painted . The secret of this greater popularity may lie in the fact ...
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... song . They compel Phemius , the house- hold bard , to make mirth for them . Then , while he plies his voice and lyre for their entertainment , the son of Ulysses whispers aside with his visitor . Who is he , and whence does he come ...
... song . They compel Phemius , the house- hold bard , to make mirth for them . Then , while he plies his voice and lyre for their entertainment , the son of Ulysses whispers aside with his visitor . Who is he , and whence does he come ...
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... song . But the subject is too painful . She calls the bard to her , and begs him , for her sake , to choose some other theme . We must not be too angry with Telemachus because , in the first flush of his newly- A. C. vol . ii . B ...
... song . But the subject is too painful . She calls the bard to her , and begs him , for her sake , to choose some other theme . We must not be too angry with Telemachus because , in the first flush of his newly- A. C. vol . ii . B ...
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... song that made him hark and smile . A sylvan nook it was , grown round with trees , Poplars , and elms , and odorous cypresses , In which all birds of ample wing , the owl And hawk , had nests , and broad - tongued waterfowl . The cave ...
... song that made him hark and smile . A sylvan nook it was , grown round with trees , Poplars , and elms , and odorous cypresses , In which all birds of ample wing , the owl And hawk , had nests , and broad - tongued waterfowl . The cave ...
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... song of the Greek bard . It was only Christianity - one might almost say it was only medieval Christianity - which could con- ceive the pure ideal of the stainless knight who has kept his maiden innocence , -who only can sit in the ...
... song of the Greek bard . It was only Christianity - one might almost say it was only medieval Christianity - which could con- ceive the pure ideal of the stainless knight who has kept his maiden innocence , -who only can sit in the ...
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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...
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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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