Homeric BalladsJohn W. Parker, 1850 - 299 pages |
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Page 82 - Arsinous' daughter, graced with golden hairs: (Whom to his aged arms, a royal slave, Greece, as the prize of Nestor's wisdom gave:) A table first with azure feet she placed; Whose ample orb a brazen charger graced; Honey...
Page 153 - In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride : but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. 4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean : but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
Page 207 - Declare sincerely to no foe's demand Thy name, thy lineage, and paternal land. Prepare, then, said Telemachus, to know A tale from falsehood free, not free from woe. From Ithaca, of royal birth, I came...
Page 174 - Darts shower'd on darts, now round the carcase ring ; Now flights of arrows bounding from the string : Stones follow stones ; some clatter on the fields, Some hard, and heavy, shake the sounding shields. But where the rising whirlwind clouds...
Page xii - The New Cratylus; Contributions towards a more accurate Knowledge of the Greek Language.
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Page 209 - Now each his course pursue; I to the fields, and to the city you. Long absent hence, I dedicate this day My swains to visit, and the works survey. Expect me with the morn, to pay the skies Our debt of safe return in feast and sacrifice.
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Page 289 - Many a son feels sorrow try him While his sire is far away, And no faithful comrade by him, In his danger prop or stay. So, my friend, now vainly sighing O'er his father absent long, Finds no hand, on which relying He may meet attempted wrong.
Page 78 - Two generations now had pass'd away, Wise by his rules, and happy by his sway ; Two ages o'er his native realm he reign'd, And now the' example of the third remain'd. All view'd with awe the venerable man ; Who thus with mild benevolence began...