Homer: The OdysseyBlackwood, 1870 - 136 páginas |
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... Antinous , the most prominent ringleader of the confraternity of suitors . His character is very like that of the worst stamp of the " Cavalier " of the days of our own Charles II . Brave , bold , and insolent , there is yet a reckless ...
... Antinous , the most prominent ringleader of the confraternity of suitors . His character is very like that of the worst stamp of the " Cavalier " of the days of our own Charles II . Brave , bold , and insolent , there is yet a reckless ...
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... Antinous rises to answer him , beginning , as before , with an ironical compliment " the young orator's language is as sublime as his spirit . " But the fault , he begs to assure him , lies not with the suitors , but with the queen ...
... Antinous rises to answer him , beginning , as before , with an ironical compliment " the young orator's language is as sublime as his spirit . " But the fault , he begs to assure him , lies not with the suitors , but with the queen ...
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... Antinous is gallant enough to add to this recital of Penelope's craft warm praises of the queen herself , even giving her full credit for the bright woman's wit which had so long baffled them all . " Matchless skill To weave the ...
... Antinous is gallant enough to add to this recital of Penelope's craft warm praises of the queen herself , even giving her full credit for the bright woman's wit which had so long baffled them all . " Matchless skill To weave the ...
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... Antinous greets him there with a mocking show of friendship , he wrenches his hand . roughly from his grasp , and quits the company . Taking into his counsels his nurse Eurycleia - who is the palace housekeeper also - he bids her make ...
... Antinous greets him there with a mocking show of friendship , he wrenches his hand . roughly from his grasp , and quits the company . Taking into his counsels his nurse Eurycleia - who is the palace housekeeper also - he bids her make ...
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... - feeding vale . " There is much consternation in the palace of Ulysses when the absence of Telemachus is at last discovered . Antinous and his fellow - revellers are struck with aston- TELEMACHUS IN QUEST OF HIS FATHER . 41.
... - feeding vale . " There is much consternation in the palace of Ulysses when the absence of Telemachus is at last discovered . Antinous and his fellow - revellers are struck with aston- TELEMACHUS IN QUEST OF HIS FATHER . 41.
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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 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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