Masterworks of World Literature, Volume 1Edwin Mallard Everett Dryden Press, 1955 - 1000 pages |
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Page 39
... seemed best in his eyes , smooth of rocks , and withal there was a covert from the wind , Odysseus felt the river running , and prayed to him in his heart . . And the god straightway stayed his stream and withheld his waves , and made ...
... seemed best in his eyes , smooth of rocks , and withal there was a covert from the wind , Odysseus felt the river running , and prayed to him in his heart . . And the god straightway stayed his stream and withheld his waves , and made ...
Page 408
... seemed to stand by , deep in grief and shedding abundant tears ; torn by the chariot , as once of old , and black with gory dust , his swoln feet pierced with the thongs . Ah me ! in what guise was he ! how changed from the Hector who ...
... seemed to stand by , deep in grief and shedding abundant tears ; torn by the chariot , as once of old , and black with gory dust , his swoln feet pierced with the thongs . Ah me ! in what guise was he ! how changed from the Hector who ...
Page 707
... seemed reflected , and the third seemed a fire breathed equally from one and from the other . Oh but how scant the utterance , and how faint , to my conceit ! and it , to what I saw , is such that it sufficeth not to call it little . O ...
... seemed reflected , and the third seemed a fire breathed equally from one and from the other . Oh but how scant the utterance , and how faint , to my conceit ! and it , to what I saw , is such that it sufficeth not to call it little . O ...
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