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...nder Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope , the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ... some difficulty, reached the little hamlet of Pithys. Here he met with an adventure, which we will continue in the words of our author. “Having set o... ..., It fits to ask ye, what your native shore, And whence your race? on what adventure say, Thus far you wander through the watery way? Relate if busine... ...k could close, The long historian of my country’s woes; Back to thy native islands might’st thou sail, And leave half heard the melancholy tale. Nine ... ...the riding fleets; He next their princes’ lofty domes admires, In separate islands, crown’d with rising spires; And deep entrenchments, and high walls... ...ND CY CL CL CL CL CLOPS OPS OPS OPS OPS Ulysses begins the relation of his adventures: how, after the destruction of T roy, he with his companions mad... ...age flows. None match’d this hero’s wealth, of all who reign O’er the fair islands of the neighbouring main. Nor all the monarchs whose far dreaded sw...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ..., And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or ... ...ect millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instinct through that waste And trackless region... ...m in a moment.” Extracts 13 “The Whale and his Captors, or The Whaleman’s Adventures and the Whale’s Biography, as gathered on the Homeward Cruise of... ...ooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure. And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a m... ...d incommunicable. The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, wit... ...thou of the Quaker idiom; still, from the audacious, daring, and boundless adventure of their subsequent lives, strangely blend with these unoutgrown ...

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