The Odyssey: tr. into blank verse by G.W. Edginton, Tom 2

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Strona xviii - Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with flower and fruit, whereof they gave To each, but whoso did receive of them, And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Strona i - I launch adventurous on the liquid fields, Join to the help of gods the strength of man, And take this method, since the best I can.
Strona i - There poised a while above the bounding tides, His limbs discumbers of the clinging vest, And binds the sacred cincture round his breast : Then prone on ocean in a moment flung, Stretch'd wide his eager arms, and shot the seas along.
Strona vii - Now therein of all sciences — I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit — is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it. Nay, he doth, as if your journey should lie through a fair vineyard, at the very first give you a cluster of grapes, that full of that taste you may long to pass further.
Strona viii - Sirenum voces et Circae pocula nosti ; Quae si cum sociis stultus cupidusque bibisset, Sub domina meretrice fuisset turpis et excors, 25 Vixisset canis immundus vel amica luto sus.
Strona xii - Tence, // and / the fruit Of that / forbid / den tree, // whose mor / tal taste Brought death / into / the world, // and all / our woe, With loss / of...
Strona ix - Some, and among these one at least of our best and greatest *, have endeavoured to give us the Iliad in English hexameters, and by what appears to me their failure have gone far to prove the impossibility of the task. I have long held by our blank verse in this matter, and now after having spoken so disrespectfully here of these hexameters, I venture or rather feel bound to subjoin a specimen (however brief and with whatever demerits) of a blank verse translation.
Strona xxiv - ... deprived itself of this poetical renown ; and the settlement of the Homerids in Chios was, in all probability, a consequence of the expulsion of the lonians from Smyrna. It may, moreover, be observed that according to this account, founded on the history of the colonies of Asia Minor, the time of Homer would fall a few generations after the Ionic migration to Asia : and with this determination the best testimonies of antiquity agree. Such are the computation of Herodotus, who places Homer with...
Strona 1 - ... as venerable relics, indicative of the strong fancy and practical wisdom of an unlettered age — an age when human passion was the actuating principle of life, and the face of nature the only book open to the eyes of men. A few words respecting the history of the poems may not unaptly introduce our notice of their plan and merits. It is said that they existed at first in separate ballads...
Strona xvi - Odyssey the narrative begins, with the fetching of the bow (at the outset of the twenty -first book), to assume a lofty tone, which is mingled with an almost painful expectation ; and the poet makes use of everything which the legend offered, as the gloomy forebodings of Theoclymenus (who is only introduced in order to prepare for this scene of horror)"' and the contemporaneous festival of i Od.

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