 Nigh the cursed shore, and listen to the lay. No more that wretch shall view the joys of life, His blooming offspring, or his beauteous wife ! In verdant meads they sport ; and wide around Lie human bones, that whiten all the ground : The ground polluted...  Odyssey - الصفحة 165المحررون: - 1905عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Paul A. Olson - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...is a dichotomous landscape, part "beautiful country" and part desert ("In verdant meads they sporr, and wide around / Lie human bones, that whiten all...gore, / And human carnage taints the dreadful shore.") 103 Similarly, when Gulliver reaches his siren landscape of Lagado, he sees an equally dichotomous... | |
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