The Odyssey of Homer, Volume 3T. Longman, 1796 - Epic poetry, Greek |
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Homer Gilbert Wakefield. 25 Here fat Eumæus , and his cares apply'd To form strong bufkins of well - feafon'd hide . Ver . 25. Here fat Eumæus , and his cares apply'd , & c . ] I doubt . not but this employment of Eumæus has been another ...
Homer Gilbert Wakefield. 25 Here fat Eumæus , and his cares apply'd To form strong bufkins of well - feafon'd hide . Ver . 25. Here fat Eumæus , and his cares apply'd , & c . ] I doubt . not but this employment of Eumæus has been another ...
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... Eumæus was a man of confequence , and his post a place of honour ; other- wife Homer would have been guilty of burlesquing his own poetry . Dacier very well remarks , that the words Eumæus here speaks , and indeed his whole converfation ...
... Eumæus was a man of confequence , and his post a place of honour ; other- wife Homer would have been guilty of burlesquing his own poetry . Dacier very well remarks , that the words Eumæus here speaks , and indeed his whole converfation ...
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... Eumæus , for a better drefs would only have expofed him to the danger of a difcovery . Befides , this would have been a direct oppofition to the injunctions of the Goddess of Wisdom , who had not only difguifed him in the habit of a ...
... Eumæus , for a better drefs would only have expofed him to the danger of a difcovery . Befides , this would have been a direct oppofition to the injunctions of the Goddess of Wisdom , who had not only difguifed him in the habit of a ...
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Æneid againſt Alcinous Anticlea antient aſked becauſe breaſt Caïcus Chapman Circe companions confequently couplet Dacier dæmon darkneſs defcends defcription deſcribes dreadful Elpenor Enipeus Euftathius Eumæus Eurylochus Eurypylus ev'ry expreffion exprefs eyes fable facred fafe faid falchion fame fate fays feas feaſt feems fhade fhall fhews fhip fhore fhort fhould fignifies firft firſt flain fleep fome forrow foul fpeaks ftand ftill ftory fuch Goddeſs Gods gueſt heav'n hell herds hero himſelf Homer honour Iliad inftance iſland Jove loft moſt muſt night o'er obferves occafion Odyffey Odyſſey Ogilby paffage perfon Phæacians pleaſe pleaſure Poet poetry pow'r reaſon reft repreſent rhymes rife ſay Scylla ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhip ſhore ſpeaks ſpread ſtay ſtory Strabo Symplegades Telegonus Telemachus thee thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou thro tranflator Ulyffes underſtand underſtood uſed veffel verfe verfion verſe Virgil whofe whoſe winds wiſdom woes words καὶ