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Æneas Affyria Afia Minor Africa afterwards againſt Anchifes ancient Apollo Arabia ARMENIA bounded Britannia caft called alfo coaft Crete Dacia daughter divided divifion eaft earth eaſt Egypt ENEAS eſcape Euxine extenfive fafe faid fame famous father fent fet fail fettled feven fhades fhips fhore fhould fiege firſt fituate fmall fo called fome foon fouth ftorm fuch fuppofed fword GALLIA GALLIA CELTICA GALLIA NARBONENSIS GANGEM Gaul Græcia Grecian Greece Greeks gulph himſelf Iberia Ifthmus Imaus inhabitants iſland Italy Jerufalem Juno Jupiter king kingdom laſt Lotophagi Lybia Lycia MAURITANIA Mediterranean metropolis miles moft mount mountains Neptune occafion ocean paffed Pannonia PAUL Perfia Phrygia poffeffed prefent promiſed Propontis provinces raiſed river Romans Sarmatia Scythia SECTION ſhe ſhip Sicily ſmall ſtood Syria T.Kitchin Thefe themſelves thence theſe thofe thoſe Thrace town tract of land Trojans Troy Turnus Ulyffes ULYSSES Venus weft weſt weſtern whofe whoſe Zacynthus
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Page 84 - This gives the poet occasion to describe the notion the heathens at that time had of an unbodied soul, in the excuse which the mother makes for seeming to withdraw herself from her son's embraces.
Page 85 - ... him by the hand. Ulysses, who was much moved at the sight, poured out a flood of tears, and asked him...
Page 84 - When this melancholy conversation is at an end, the poet draws up to view as charming a vision as could enter into man's imagination. He describes the next who appeared to Ulysses, to have been the shades of the finest women that had ever lived upon the earth, and who had either been the daughters of kings, the...
Page 83 - Ulysses, that, for the repose of his soul, he would build a monument over him, and perform funeral rites to his memory. Ulysses, with great sorrow of heart, promises to fulfil his request, and is immediately diverted to an object much more moving than the former. The ghost of his own mother, Anticlea, whom he still thought living, appears to him among the...
Page 86 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone ; The huge round stone, resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page 83 - Points out the long uncomfortable way. Trembling the fpeftres glide, and plaintive vent Thin, hollow fcreams, along the deep defcent. As in the cavern of fome rifted den, Where flock...
Page 84 - Ulysses on the other hand desires to know, what the sickness was that had sent her into those regions, and the condition in which she had left his father, his son, and more particularly his wife. She tells him, they were all three inconsolable for his absence.
Page 83 - Spectres glide, and plaintive vent Thin, hollow screams, along the deep descent. As in the cavern of some rifted den, Where flock nocturnal bats, and birds obscene ; 10 Cluster'd they hang, till at some sudden shock, They move, and murmurs run thro...
Page 84 - And as for myself, (says she,) that was the sickness of which I died. My impatience for your return, my anxiety for your welfare, and my fondness for my dear Ulysses, were the only distempers that preyed upon my life, and separated my soul from my body.
Page 85 - Agamemnon related to him in all its tragical circumstances ; how he was murdered at a banquet by the contrivance of his own wife, in confederacy with her adulterer : from whence he takes occasion to reproach the whole sex, after a manner which would be inexcusable in a man who had not been so great a sufferer by them.