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...d thought. His wife had been alive all right. Alive and in a coma. But the odyssey hadn't begun for Tyler until Dagny had regained consciousness two w...

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...mer, and that was of the alchemistio sort. The heroes of the "Illiad" and "Odyssey" possessed considerable skill in surgery. The principles of modern ...

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...his blind Myth is that old. Every person who blindly reads the Iliad and the Odyssey swallows Homer’s propaganda uncritically. The Odyssey is fu...

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...0 A Good Sport 11 Cultural Traditions Pick A Topic 13 May Faith Traditions 15 Was Lao Tzu an Antiintellectual? 16 Games Our Parents Played: An Odyssey of Names 17 Keeping the Peace 19 Women Artists: Making an Impression 20 Author Spotlight...

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...at, something too of the despot about this old Homer bearing within him an Odyssey doomed to oblivion. The greatness was so real that it triumphed ove...

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...d all written tradition, concerning the author or authors of the Iliad and Odyssey. What few 6 The Iliad of Homer authorities exist on the subject, a... ...riend Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, and appended to my prose translation of the Odyssey. The present abridge- ment however, will contain all that is of use... ...e legends respecting Ulysses, which after- wards formed the subject of the Odyssey. The inhabitants of Ithaca assert, that it was here that Melesigene... ...ity, that it is almost a pity to find that it is obviously a copy from the Odyssey. See the fourteenth book. In fact, whoever was the author of this f... ...ositions Homer displays great grati- tude towards Mentor of Ithaca, in the Odyssey, whose name he has inserted in his poem as the companion of Ulysses... ...testimonies, we never could wholly explain the origin of the Iliad and the Odyssey; for their origin, in all essential points, must have remained the ... ...ote: Compare Sir E. L. Bulwer’s Caxtons v. i. p. 4.] or were the Iliad and Odyssey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments by ear- lier po... ...e, merely expressed an opinion touching the comparative inferiority of the Odyssey to the Iliad, [Note: Longin., de Sublim., ix. Section 26. Othen en ... ...y, amongst others, that the separate constituent portions of the Iliad and Odyssey had not been cemented together into any compact body and unchange- ...

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...ise, Leave here the fatted cattle, And paint on foreign lands and skies My Odyssey of battle. The untented Kosmos my abode, I pass, a wilful stranger:...

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...mes bore: and from the case of the necklace of gold and amber, in the 15th Odyssey, (v. 458,) combined with many other instances of the same kind, the... ...ofession thoroughly respectable. A few other callings are mentioned in the Odyssey as furnishing regular bread to decent men—viz. the doctor’s, the fo... ... impor- tance to the traveller, and has thrown light upon a passage in the Odyssey that had previously been unintelligible—we go on to one other sugge... ...concerns are so frequently brought forward in the imagery of the Iliad and Odyssey. Accordingly, the passage of Homer to which the existing 118 Theol... ... Thomas de Quincey In the passage already quoted under Pope’s version from Odyssey, xiv. 29, what is the meaning of that singular cou- plet— ‘Down sat... ... their assault. This story, though told without the least reference to the Odyssey, at once brought home to my own mind the scene at the fold of Eumeu... ...arrassment to the men of Plutarch’s age, why the Phoeacian princess in the Odyssey did not wash in the sea, but mysteriously pre- ferred the river, (S... ...this translation, there is good reason to warn the reader—that much of the Odyssey was let off by-contract, like any poor-house proposal for ‘clods’ a...

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...everend tutors had at times a tussle, And for their AEneids, Iliads, and Odysseys, Were forced to make an odd sort! of apology, For Donna Inez...

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...and was pre- sented by him with a copy of the subscription edition of the “Odyssey,” in five volumes quarto, which is still preserved by his descendan... ..., is not a satisfactory translation of the “Iliad,” and still less of the “Odyssey.” He has trailed along the naked lances of the Homeric lines so man... ...est manners, gentlest arts adorn’d!” In 1722, he engaged to translate the “Odyssey .” He employed Broome and Fenton as his assistants in the work; and... ... “Miscellaneous Works,” in folio and quarto, uniform with the “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” including a versification of the Satires of Donne; also, anonymou... ... cried, (While Hampton’s echoes ‘wretched maid!’ replied) 33 ‘Winds:’ see Odyssey. 34 ‘Thalestris:’ Mrs Morley. 88 The Poetical Works of Alexander ... ... lived, and that he died. 83 ‘Fenton:’ Pope’s joint-translator of Homer’s Odyssey. See Johnson’s ‘Lives of the Poets.’ 160 The Poetical Works of Ale...

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...much loved father’s safe return, If of his whereabouts I may best hear.’ —Odyssey (Musgrave). ‘OH! BROTHER, I wish they had named you Telemaque, and ... ...ered if they should come on Calypso’s island; and Arthur, who had read the Odyssey, delighted her and terrified Ulysse with the cave of Polyphemus. M.... ... Direct towards Orion, and alone Of these sinks never to the briny deep.’ —Odyssey (Cowper). THE BOAT WAS PUSHED OFF, the Abyssinian leapt into it; Ar...

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...er of the suitors of Penelope, his wife, by Ulysses, after his return. Cf. Odyssey, Books XXI-XXII. 19 3 ABOUT WATERLOO: i.e. about 1815. This phrase ... ...emus, one of the Cyclopes, whose eye was put out by Ulysses, is meant. Cf. Odyssey, IX, 371 et seq.; Æneid, III, 630 et seq. 40 1 ONE OF THE CALENDARS...

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...therefore, be reported truly: Pope personally translated one- half of the ‘Odyssey’—a dozen books he turned out of his own oven: and, if you add the B... ..., the rule does really and obvi- ously take effect (as in the ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’), there he insists upon an exceptional case. There is a moral, in ...

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...r of bloodthirsty shades, I yet longed for the beginning of my own obscure Odyssey, which, as was proper for a modern, should unroll its wonders and t...

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... Another – whom I will not name – has moved farther on, pursuing the strange Odyssey of his decadence. His days of royal favour had departed even then...

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... looking at his rigid figure, I thought of his wanderings, of that obscure Odyssey of revenge, 38 Tales of Unrest of all the men that wander amongst ...

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...ter the success of Marmion, I felt inclined to exclaim with Ulysses in the Odyssey: Odys. X. 5. “One venturous game my hand has won to-day— Anoth...

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...l,” said the lawyer, when I had quite done, “this is a great epic, a great Odyssey of yours. You must tell it, sir, in a sound Latinity when your scho...

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...en the whole a higher though still sportive tone. It is becoming a kind of Odyssey, with a laughing and Christian Achilles for hero. One may manage to...

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...n the eve of their Grecian cruise which Mrs. Hicks would certainly call an Odyssey. The next moment the vision of Coral’s hopeless suitor had faded, a...