Stories of the Old WorldGinn & Company, 1898 - 363 من الصفحات |
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Achilles Æneas Ajax Ajax the Greater aloud Anchises answered Apollo arms arrow Asius Athene bade battle beast bravest brother called cave Chalciope chariot comrades counsel cried daughter dead Deiphobus Dido Diomed drave dwell Eumæus evil father fear feast fell fight fire fled gates gave give gods gold Greeks hand hath hear heard hearken heart heaven Hector helmet Hercules heroes hither horses Idomeneus Jason Juno Jupiter King Agamemnon knew land lest maidens men of Troy Menelaus mighty mother palace Pallas Patroclus Philoctetes Phrixus pray Priam Prince Queen river sail Sarpedon saying shield ship shore slain slay slew smote sons of Troy sore spake Sthenelus stood stranger suitors sword Telemachus tell Teucer thee things thou art thou hast thou shalt thou wilt Tiphys took Trojans Turnus Tydeus Ulysses walls Wherefore wife wind wounded wrath wroth Zeus
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الصفحة 330 - And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south ; and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
الصفحة 75 - And as he spake he laid his heavy hand upon the hilt, and thrust back the sword into the scabbard, and Athene went her way to Olympus. Then he turned him to King Agamemnon, and spake again. " Drunkard, with the eyes of a dog and the heart of a deer!
الصفحة 195 - And she bade them sit, and mixed for them a mess, /r red wine, and in it barley-meal and cheese and honey, and mighty drugs withal, of which, if a man drank, he forgot all that he loved. And when they had drunk she smote them with her wand. And lo ! they had of a sudden the heads and the voices and the bristles of swine, but the heart of a man was in them still. And Circe" shut them in sties, and gave them mast and acorns and cornel to eat.
الصفحة 189 - How is this, thou who art the leader of the flock? Thou art not wont thus to lag behind. Thou hast always been the first to run to the pastures and streams in the morning, and the first to come back to the fold when evening fell; and now thou art last of all. Perhaps thou art troubled about thy master's eye, which some wretch — No Man, they call him — has destroyed, having first mastered me with wine. He has not escaped, I ween. I would that thou couldst speak, and tell me where he is lurking....
الصفحة 103 - ... who call yourselves champions of the Greeks come forth and fight with me, man to man. And let it be so that if he vanquish me he shall spoil me of my arms but give my body to my people, that they may burn it with fire; and if I vanquish him, I will spoil him of his arms but give his body to the Greeks, that they may bury him and raise a great mound above him by the broad salt river of Hellespont. And so men of after days shall see it, sailing by, and say, ' This is the tomb of the bravest of...
الصفحة 214 - Phasacians, feasting ; and youths wrought in gold stood holding torches in their hands, to give light in the darkness. Fifty women were in the house grinding corn and weaving robes, for the women of the land are no less skilled to weave than are the men to sail the sea. And round about the house were gardens beautiful exceedingly, with orchards of fig and apple and pear and pomegranate and olive.
الصفحة 80 - But when Menelaus saw him he was glad, for he said that now he should avenge himself on the man who had done him such wrong. So a lion is glad when, being sorely hungered, he finds a stag or a wild goat ; he devours it, and will not be driven from it by dogs or hunters. He leapt from his chariot and rushed to meet his enemy ; but Paris, having done evil, and being therefore a coward in his heart, was afraid when he saw...
الصفحة 106 - And as he spake he hurled his long-shafted spear, and smote the great shield on the rim of the eighth fold, that was of bronze. Through six folds it passed, but in the seventh it was stayed. Then Ajax hurled his spear, striking Hector's shield. Through shield it passed and corselet, and cut the tunic close against the loin...
الصفحة 201 - In the cave she lies, but her heads are without, fishing for sea-dogs and dolphins, or even a great whale, if such should chance to go by. Think not to escape her, Ulysses, for, of a truth, with each head will she take one of thy companions. But the other rock is lower and more flat, with a wild fig-tree on the top. There Charybdis thrice a day draws in the dark water, and thrice a day sends it forth. Be not thou near when she draws it in; not even Poseidon's self could save thee. Choose rather to...
الصفحة 210 - And when the morning was come, Nausicaa awoke, marvelling at the dream, and went seeking her parents. Her mother she found busy with her maidens at the loom, and her father she met as he was going to the council with the chiefs of the land. Then she said, " Give me, father, the wagon with the mules, that I may take the garments to the river to wash them. Thou shouldest always have clean robes when thou goest to the council; and there are my five brothers also, who love to have newly washed garments...