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"I thought I looked very pretty," said Carlotta, moving a step nearer. I sat down at my writing-table and fixed my eyes on my paper. "You are like a Houri that has been sent away from Paradise for misbehaviour," I said. She laughed her curious cooing laugh. "Hou! Seer Marcous is shocked!" And she ran, away, rubbing Polyphemus's nose against her face.
By his advice the Trojans coasted round the south of Sicily, instead of trying to pass the strait between the dreadful Scylla and Charybdis, and just below Mount Etna an unfortunate man came running down to the beach begging to be taken in. He was a Greek, who had been left behind when Ulysses escaped from Polyphemus's cave, and had made his way to the forests, where he had lived ever since.
Cutting many jokes upon his Campanian disease, and upon his face, he desired him to exhibit Polyphemus's dance: that he had no occasion for a mask, or the tragic buskins. We were so diverted, that we continued that supper to an unusual length.
If you said grace for your feast yesterday, is that any reason why you shall not be hungry to-day? Your natural fine appetite and relish for this evening's feast, shows that to-morrow evening at eight o'clock you will most probably be in want of your dinner. We are served a la Russe, and gobbled up a dish at a time, like the folks in Polyphemus's cave.
Act ii. sc. 5. Perhaps he was referring to Polyphemus's club, which was 'Of height and bulk so vast The largest ship might claim it for a mast. Pope's Odyssey, ix. 382. Or to Agamemnon's sceptre: 'Which never more shall leaves or blossoms bear. Iliad, i. 310.
The sight of the man he so much hated for Polyphemus's sake, his son, whose eye Ulysses had put out, set the god's heart on fire; and snatching into his hand his horrid sea-sceptre, the trident of his power, he smote the air and the sea, and conjured up all his black storms, calling down night from the cope of heaven, and taking the earth into the sea, as it seemed, with clouds, through the darkness and indistinctness which prevailed; the billows rolling up before the fury of all the winds, that contended together in their mighty sport.
She took her Homer and fared with Odysseus into Polyphemus's cave, and out to the land of Circe; and heard the Sirens sing, and abode on Calypso's fairy isle; and saw the maiden Nausicaä and her maids at the ball-play on the marge of the stream. But it was sorry work; for ever and again the dream-woven mist would break, and the present stern, unchanging, joyless she would see, and that only.
The sight of the man he so much hated for Polyphemus's sake, his son, whose eye Ulysses had put out, set the god's heart on fire; and snatching into his hand his horrid sea-sceptre, the trident of his power, he smote the air and the sea, and conjured up all his black storms, calling down night from the cope of heaven, and taking the earth into the sea, as it seemed, with clouds, through the darkness and indistinctness which prevailed, the billows rolling up before the fury of all the winds, that contended together in their mighty sport.
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