The Boy's OdysseyMacmillan & Company, 1908 - 211 pagine |
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Achaians adventures Agelaus Alcinous Amphinomus Antinous Artemis beggar behold black ship Calypso cast cave chamber Circe Ctesippus Cyclops daughter Dawn dear deathless gods didst doublet drew Dulichium Eumæus Eupeithes Eurycleia Eurylochus Eurymachus Eurynome evil eyes fair Father Zeus feast fell flocks gifts goddess goodly swineherd gray-eyed Athene Greeks halls hands hath head heart Helios Hermes hither Icarius Irus Ithaca King knees Laertes land Laodamas lest lord maidens Melanthius Menelaus mighty mother Nausicaa Odysseus answered Odysseus spake Pandareus patient goodly Odysseus Phæacians Polyphemus Poseidon prayed Pylos raiment rich in counsel rock rosy-fingered sailed saying sleep smite smote sorrow spake winged words spear stood straightway Stranger sweet swift swine swineherd tears Teiresias Telemachus Telemachus answered Therewith thine thou art thou hast thou shalt took Trojans Troy twain verily weeping wife wind wine wise Penelope answered wise Telemachus Wooers Zeus
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Pagina 69 - So spake the grey-eyed Athene, and departed to Olympus, where, as they say, is the seat of the gods that standeth fast for ever. Not by winds is it shaken, nor ever wet with rain, nor doth the snow come nigh thereto, but most clear air is spread about it cloudless, and the white light floats over it. Therein the blessed gods are glad for all their days, and thither Athene went when she had shown forth all to the maiden.
Pagina 173 - ... anon she quickly loosed the strap from the handle of the door, and thrust in the key, and with a straight aim shot back the bolts. And even as a bull roars that is grazing in a meadow, so mightily roared the fair doors smitten by the key ; and speedily they flew open before her. Then she stept on to the high floor, where the coffers stood, wherein the fragrant raiment was stored.
Pagina 79 - The fruit of these trees never perisheth neither faileth, winter or summer, enduring through all the year. Evermore the West Wind blowing brings some fruits to birth and ripens others. Pear upon pear waxes old, and apple on apple, yea and cluster ripens upon cluster of the grape, and fig upon fig.
Pagina 68 - Lo, thou hast shining raiment that lies by thee uncared for, and thy marriage-day is near at hand, when thou thyself must needs go beautifully clad, and have garments to give to them who shall lead thee to the house of the bridegroom! And, behold, these are the things whence a good report goes abroad among men, wherein a father and lady mother take delight.
Pagina 154 - Lady, it is hard for one so long parted from him to tell thee all this, for it is now the twentieth year since he went thither and left my country. Yet even so I will tell thee as I see him in spirit. Goodly Odysseus wore a thick purple mantle, twofold, which had a brooch fashioned in gold, with...
Pagina 163 - Then wise Penelope answered him: 'Stranger, verily dreams are hard, and hard to be discerned; nor are all things therein fulfilled for men. Twain are the gates of shadowy dreams, the one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Such dreams as pass through the portals of sawn ivory are deceitful, and bear tidings that are unfulfilled. But the dreams that come forth through the gates of polished horn bring a true issue, whosoever of mortals beholds them.
Pagina 94 - I am ODYSSEUS, SON OF LAERTES, who am in men's minds for all manner of wiles, and my fame reaches unto heaven. And I dwell in clear-seen Ithaca, wherein is a mountain Neriton, with trembling forest leaves, standing manifest to view, and many islands lie around, very near one to the other, Dulichium and Same, and wooded Zacynthus.
Pagina 78 - Alcinous, and his heart was full of many thoughts as he stood there or ever he had reached the threshold of bronze. For there was a gleam as it were of sun or moon through the high-roofed hall of great-hearted Alcinous. Brazen were the walls which ran this way and that...
Pagina 194 - And after she had bathed him and anointed him with olive oil, and cast about him a goodly mantle and a doublet, he came forth from the bath in fashion like the deathless gods. So he went and sat him down by Nestor, shepherd of the people. Now when they had roasted the outer flesh, and drawn it off the spits, they sat down and fell to feasting, and honourable men waited on them, pouring wine into the golden cups.
Pagina 73 - And may the gods grant thee all thy heart's desire : a husband and a home, and a mind at one with his may they give — a good gift, for there is nothing mightier and nobler than when man and wife are of one heart and mind in a house, a grief to their foes, and to their friends great joy, but their own hearts know it best.