Story of UlyssesAmerican Book Company, 1900 - 283 pages |
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Agamemnon Agelaus Alcinous answered Antinous arrow art thou bade banquet beautiful beggar Book BRYANT Calypso canst cave chiefs companions cried Ctesippus Cyclops didst dogs door dost thou drink Eumæus Euryclea Eurymachus evil father fear feast friends galley garments gifts give gods Greeks grief grotto guests hall hands hastened heard Helen hero honor husband island Ithaca Jupiter King Menelaus Laertes maids master Melanthius Mentor Minerva morning mother Nausicaä Neptune Nestor night nymphs Odyssey palace Pallas Penelope Phæacians Pisistratus Polyphemus princes punish Pylos queen raft replied sailed saying seat sent servants ship shore sitting slain sleep soon Sparta speak spear spoke stood story stranger suitors swine swineherd Telem Telemachus tell thee Theoclymenus thou art thou hast thou shalt told took Trojan Trojan War Troy Ulysses voice voyage weapons wept wife wilt wind wine words young
Popular passages
Page 85 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page 39 - We will return no more ;' And all at once they sang, ' Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.
Page 95 - Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms. When the tide rushes from her rumbling caves, The rough rock roars, tumultuous boil the waves...
Page 76 - The sun ne'er views the uncomfortable seats, When radiant he advances, or retreats: Unhappy race! whom endless night invades, Clouds the dull air, and wraps them round in shades.
Page 30 - tis an engine raised above the town To overlook the walls, and then to batter down. Somewhat is sure designed by fraud or force : Trust not their presents, nor admit the horse.
Page 83 - I spake. Achilles quickly answered me : — " Noble Ulysses, speak not thus of death. As if thou wouldst console me. I would be A laborer on earth, and serve for hire Some man of mean estate, who makes scant cheer, Rather than reign o'er all who have gone down To death.
Page 35 - TELL me, O Muse, of that sagacious man Who, having overthrown the sacred town Of Ilium, wandered far and visited The capitals of many nations, learned The customs of their dwellers, and endured < Great suffering on the deep ; his life was oft In peril, as he labored to bring back His comrades to their homes.
Page 86 - With horrors arm'd, and curls of hissing snakes, Should fix me, stiffen'd at the monstrous sight, A stony image, in eternal night! Straight from the direful coast to purer air I speed my flight, and to my mates repair. My mates ascend the ship; they strike their oars; The mountains lessen, and retreat the shores; Swift o'er the waves we fly; the freshening gales Sing thro' the shrouds, and stretch the swelling sails.
Page 175 - Phaeacian train Their cables loose, and launch into the main : At once they bend, and strike their equal oars, And leave the sinking hills, and lessening shores.
Page 216 - This said, the honest herdsman strode before; The musing monarch pauses at the door: The dog, whom Fate had granted to behold His lord, when twenty tedious years had roll'd, Takes a last look, and having seen him, dies; So closed for ever faithful Argus...