Homeric BalladsJohn W. Parker, 1850 - 299 strán (strany) |
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Strana 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...
Strana 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...
Strana 280 - The sunless treasure of exhausted mines : The spoils of elephants the roofs inlay, And studded amber darts a golden ray : Such, and not nobler, in the realms above My wonder dictates is the dome of Jove.
Strana 263 - Venter, negatas artifex sequi voces. Quod si dolosi spes refulserit nummi, Corvos poetas et poetrias picas Cantare credas Pegasei'um nectar.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 124 - One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Strana 280 - The burnished laver flames with solid gold; In solid gold the purple vintage flows, And on the board a second banquet rose. When thus the king with hospitable port: — Accept this welcome to the Spartan court...
Strana 149 - But he, to self-controul now long inured, Represt his rising heart, nor other tears, Full as his struggling bosom was, let fall Than seemed to follow on Florinda's words. Looking toward her then, yet so that still He shunned the meeting of her eye, he said, Virtuous and pious as thou art, and ripe For Heaven, O Lady, I will think the man Hath not by his good Angel been cast off For whom thy supplications rise.
Strana 206 - Bias' arms) he sought a foreign air; Argos the rich for his retreat he chose, There form'd his empire ; there his palace rose. From him Antiphates and Mantius came : The first begot O'icleus great in fame, And he Amphiaraus, immortal name...