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To Paul, in particular, whose head held so much of the past, it was like some old tale out of the Odyssey, with Ulysses and his comrades confronting a new danger in barbaric lands. "They're about to do somethin'," whispered the shiftless one. "So I think," said Henry. The British officers, the renegades and the chiefs walked down from the mound.
Madeline looked up, casually, with little interest. 'May may I have the next round dance with you? the King stuttered. The wife of the King glanced at her card and inclined her head. An Odyssey of the North The sleds were singing their eternal lament to the creaking of the harness and the tinkling bells of the leaders; but the men and dogs were tired and made no sound.
"I know all that one need know; it's written in your face, a story of sweet innocence and brave patience." "But I want you to know." "Good!" he replied with a sudden smile. "Tell the story, then; if you were an Odyssey, you couldn't be too long."
If I have forgot a circumstance, or a name, or a copy of verses, it is the same thing. There is a passage about this sort of matutinal inspiration in the Odyssey, which would make a handsome figure here if I could read or write Greek. I will look into Pope for it, who, ten to one, will not tell me the real translation.
Yet I seemed to have met myself somewhere, in some book or poem or opera.... I could not remember at first, but after some time I began to perceive a shadowy similarity between myself and dare I mention the names? the heroes of ancient legend Menelaus or Jason which? Both had gone a thousand miles on Beauty's quest. The colour of Helen's hair isn't mentioned in either the "Iliad" or the "Odyssey."
On the inner shore of the lake is a meadow, wherein grows asphodel; here, too, is the fountain that makes war on memory, and is hence called Lethe. All these particulars the ancients would doubtless obtain from the Thessalian queen Alcestis and her fellow-countryman Protesilaus, from Theseus the son of Aegeus, and from the hero of the Odyssey.
From time to time he held up his white hands and let the sun incarnadine them. He spoke to no one, though when Victor sat beside him he smiled. On the second day he feebly expressed a desire for some one to read to him. "What shall I read, Paul?" asked Victor, joyously. "You will find my Odyssey in the berthroom.
The good old square fireplace, with its projecting canopy, and columns in white and coloured marbles, was as old as the days of Inigo Jones; but the painted tiles, with their designs from the Iliad and Odyssey after Dante Rossetti, were the newest thing from Minton's factory.
And when Ulysses tries to console him by reminding him that he was even there supreme over all his fellow-shades, he receives this reply: "Renowned Ulysses! think not death a theme Of consolation: I would rather live The servile hind for hire, and eat the bread Of some man scantily himself sustained, Than sovereign empire hold o'er all the shades." Odyssey, by COWPER, B. XI.
Tacitus mentions it as a romantic tale; but Strabo seems willing to countenance the fiction, and gravely tells us that Ulysses founded a city, called Odyssey, in Spain. Lipsius observes, that Lisbon, in the name of Strabo, had the appellation of Ulysippo, or Olisipo.
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