The Odyssey of Homer, المجلد 1J. Crissy, 1845 - 516 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 498 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. ^And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
الصفحة 374 - Grote (Hist, of Greece, voL ii. p. 91), maintains that the nobles were the only persons who proposed measures, deliberated, and voted, and that the people was only present to hear the debate, and to express its feeling as a body ; which expressions might then be noticed by a prince of a mild disposition.
الصفحة v - New-York, whose classical attainments and experience as a proof-reader, eminently qualify him for the task of correcting works of this sort. With these remarks and explanations of the plan and execution of this edition, it is submitted by the editor to his friends and the public, with the hope that it will in some small degree at least contribute to the advancement of classical learning in our country, and assist the student in reading this most delightful poem of the " father and prince of Epic...
الصفحة 351 - I have always, in commenting on the passage to which you refer, explained it to my classes as denoting the black race, (or Ethiopians, as they were called in Homer's time) living on the eastern and western coast of Africa — the one class inhabiting the country now called Abyssinia, and the other that part of Africa called Guinea or the Slave Coast.
الصفحة 506 - What Homer says of Argus is very natural, and I do not know any thing more beautiful or more affecting in the whole poem : I dare appeal to every man's judgment, if Argus be not as justly and properly represented as the noblest figure in it.
الصفحة 440 - Kühn. (Jelf's edit. § 530. 2) makes -9-tov depend upon yczfio, marking the point whence the action commenced. As it respects the subject of this song, as well as the one about the quarrel of Ulysses and Achilles (v. 75), Müller (Lit. Greece ip 31) observes, that the first sketch of the Iliad and Odyssey may have been intended to be sung at the banquet of princes and for their especial gratification.
الصفحة 494 - Pho3nicians and Taphians visited it for the sake of trade. It is almost impossible, we should think, not to recognise in Ortygia and Syria two happy isles of the West-sea, apparently sacred to Apollo and Artemis ; and we must marvel at those ancients and moderns who place them in the ^Egaean, making the one the same as Delosc, and the other identical with Syros, one of the Cycladesd.
الصفحة 351 - ... common explanation that it refers to two divisions of Upper Egypt separated by the Nile, besides, as I believe, being geographically incorrect, (the Nile really making no such division), does not seem to be of sufficient importance to warrant the strong expressions of the text.