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... wretch in exile doom'd to stray , What air I breathe , what country I survey ? 280 The fruitful continent's extreamest bound , Or some fair isle which Neptune's arms sur- round ? From what fair clime ( said she ) remote from fame ...
... wretch in exile doom'd to stray , What air I breathe , what country I survey ? 280 The fruitful continent's extreamest bound , Or some fair isle which Neptune's arms sur- round ? From what fair clime ( said she ) remote from fame ...
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... Wretch ! this is villany , and this is sin . ' 110 But these , no doubt , some oracle explore , That tells , the great Ulysses is no more . Hence springs their confidence , and from our sighs Their rapine strengthens , and their riots ...
... Wretch ! this is villany , and this is sin . ' 110 But these , no doubt , some oracle explore , That tells , the great Ulysses is no more . Hence springs their confidence , and from our sighs Their rapine strengthens , and their riots ...
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... of it's original . The following attempt is literal : There as I clang , the winds tempestuous drave . Nine days beheld me tossing on the wave : The monarch's son a shipwrackt wretch reliev'd , The sire 94 BOOK XIV . HOMER'S ODYSSEY .
... of it's original . The following attempt is literal : There as I clang , the winds tempestuous drave . Nine days beheld me tossing on the wave : The monarch's son a shipwrackt wretch reliev'd , The sire 94 BOOK XIV . HOMER'S ODYSSEY .
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Homer. The monarch's son a shipwrackt wretch reliev'd , The sire with hospitable rites receiv'd , And in his palace like a brother plac'd , ' With gifts of price and gorgeous garments grac❜d . While here I sojourn'd , oft ' I heard the ...
Homer. The monarch's son a shipwrackt wretch reliev'd , The sire with hospitable rites receiv'd , And in his palace like a brother plac'd , ' With gifts of price and gorgeous garments grac❜d . While here I sojourn'd , oft ' I heard the ...
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... wretch ran breathless to the shore , New from his crime , and reeking yet with gore . Ver . 232. ] I should prefer , as more faithful , a couplet with the rhymes of Ogilby : There , while with beauteous gifts he stores the hold , The ...
... wretch ran breathless to the shore , New from his crime , and reeking yet with gore . Ver . 232. ] I should prefer , as more faithful , a couplet with the rhymes of Ogilby : There , while with beauteous gifts he stores the hold , The ...
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