The Odyssey, tr. by A. Pope. [Followed by] Battle of the frogs and mice [tr.] by archdeacon Parnell, المجلد 1

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الصفحة 206 - I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
الصفحة 228 - Now sunk the west, and now a southern breeze, More dreadful than the tempest, lash'd the seas ; For on the rocks it bore where Scylla raves, And dire Charybdis rolls her thundering waves.
الصفحة 111 - O queen, before thee stands! Twice ten tempestuous nights I roll'd, resign'd To roaring billows, and the warring wind; Heaven bade the deep to spare! but Heaven, my foe, Spares only to inflict some mightier woe!
الصفحة 221 - Dire Scylla there a scene of horror forms, And here Charybdis fills the deep with storms. When the tide rushes from her rumbling caves, The rough rock roars ; tumultuous boil the waves, Boisterous and gentle sounds.
الصفحة 201 - There Eriphyle weeps, who loosely sold Her lord, her honour, for the lust of gold. But should I all recount, the night would fail, Unequal to the melancholy tale: And all-composing rest my nature craves, Here in the court, or yonder on the waves; In you I trust, and in the heavenly powers, To land Ulysses on his native shores.
الصفحة 36 - Telemachus already press'd the shore; Not first, the power of wisdom march'd before, And ere the sacrificing throng he join'd, Admonish'd thus his well-attending mind: "Proceed, my son! this youthful shame expel; An honest business never blush to tell.
الصفحة 86 - THE saffron morn, with early blushes spread, Now rose refulgent from Tithonus' bed, With new-born day to gladden mortal sight, And gild the courts of heaven with sacred light. Then met...
الصفحة 63 - Temper'd with drugs of sovereign use, to assuage The boiling bosom of tumultuous rage ; To clear the cloudy front of wrinkled Care, And dry the tearful sluices of Despair : Charm'd with that virtuous draught, the exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
الصفحة 215 - That bears ambrosia to the ethereal king, Shuns the dire rocks: in vain she cuts the skies; The dire rocks meet, and crush her as she flies: Not the fleet bark, when prosperous breezes play, Ploughs o'er that roaring surge its desperate way; O'erwhelm'd it sinks: while round a smoke expires, And the waves flashing seem to burn with fires.
الصفحة 106 - Then to the palaces of heaven she sails, Incumbent on the wings of wafting gales; The seat of gods; the regions mild of peace, Full joy, and calm eternity of ease.

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