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Achilleus Æneas Æneid Agamemnon Aphrodite Apollo Argonautica Argos arms arrows Artemis Athene banquet beautiful behold body Book brother called cave chariot child companions cried dark daughter death Demeter Diomed Dionysus divine dread earth entreated Eumaios Eurystheus eyes fate father fear feast fell fierce Goddess gods golden Greeks grief hair hand hast head heard heart heaven Hektor Hephaestus Hera Herakles Hermes hero HOMER honour horses Iliad island Jason Jove killed king land maiden Medea Menelaos mighty monster mortal mother Mount night nymphs o'er Odysseus Olympus once oracle OVID palace Pallas Patroklos Peleus Penelope Phaeacians placed Poseidon Priam rest rock round rushed sacred sacrifices seated sent ship shore slain sleep soon sorrow steeds stood stranger suitors sword Tartarus tears Telemachos temple thee Theseus thou art threw took Trojans Troy Underworld waters wife wild wind wine Worsley wound youth Zeus
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Page 436 - Forbid to cross the irremeable flood. Now give thy hand; for to the farther shore When once we pass, the soul returns no more: When once the last funereal flames ascend, No more shall meet Achilles and his friend; No more our thoughts to those we loved make known; Or quit the dearest, to converse alone.
Page 33 - And would not make her master's compliment; But, persecuted, to the powers she flies, And close between the legs of Jove she lies. He with a gracious ear the suppliant heard. And saved her life; then what he was, declared, And owned the god. "The neighborhood...
Page 33 - Speak thy desire, thou only just of men; And thou, o woman, only worthy found To be with such a man in marriage bound.
Page 212 - My breast is warm'd with such unusual fire, I wish him absent whom I most desire. And now I faint with grief; my fate draws nigh ; In all the pride of blooming youth I die. Death will the sorrows of my heart relieve. 0 might the visionary youth survive, 1 should with joy my latest breath resign ! But oh ! I see his fate involv'd in mine.
Page 430 - I'll restore : Now plight thy mutual oath, I ask no more." " Talk not of oaths (the dreadful chief replies. While anger flash'd from his disdainful eyes), Detested as thou art, and ought to be, Nor...
Page 432 - By thy own soul ! by those who gave thee breath ! By all the sacred prevalence of prayer ; Ah, leave me not for Grecian dogs to tear ! The common rites of sepulture bestow, To soothe a father's and a mother's woe; 430 Let their large gifts procure an urn at least, And Hector's ashes in his country rest.
Page 226 - O sacred rest, Sweet pleasing sleep, of all the Pow'rs the best ! O peace of mind, repairer of decay, Whose balms renew the limbs to labours of the day, Care shuns thy soft approach, and sullen flies away!
Page 428 - By these they pass'd, one chasing, one in flight: (The mighty fled, pursued by stronger might.) Swift was the course; no vulgar prize they play, No vulgar victim must reward the day, (Such as in races crown the speedy strife,) The prize contended was great Hector's life.
Page 446 - Then gave his hand at parting, to prevent The old man's fears, and turn'd within the tent; Where fair Briseis, bright in blooming charms, Expects her hero with desiring arms. But in the porch the king and herald rest; Sad dreams of care yet wandering in their breast. Now gods and men the gifts of sleep partake; Industrious Hermes only was awake, The king's return revolving in his mind, To pass the ramparts, and the watch to blind. The power descending hover'd o'er his head: 'And sleep's!
Page 119 - The Pleiads, Hyads, with the northern team; And great Orion's more refulgent beam; To which, around the axle of the sky, The Bear, revolving, points his golden eye, Still shines exalted on th' ethereal plain, Nor bathes his blazing forehead in the main.