 For we are no perfect boxers, nor wrestlers, but speedy runners, and the best of seamen ; and dear to us ever is the banquet, and the harp, and the dance, and changes of raiment, and the warm bath, and love, and sleep.  The Odyssey, done into Engl. prose by S.H. Butcher and A. Lang - Side 111af Homerus - 1879Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Homer - 1879 - 422 sider
...foot race some of the Phaeacians may outstrip me, for I have been shamefully broken in many waters, in that there was no continual sustenance on board ;...of raiment, and the warm bath, and love, and sleep. now arise, ye dancers of the Phaeacians, the best in the land, and make sport, that so the stranger... | |
 | Walter Copland Perry - 1898 - 292 sider
...perfect boxers nor wrestlers, but speedy runners and the best of seamen, and dear to us is the banquet and the dance, and changes of raiment, and the warm bath, and love and sleep." » The king then sends for the minstrel Demodocos and the best dancers. " And Demodocos gat him into... | |
 | Homer - 1908 - 240 sider
...perfect boxers nor wrestlers, but speedy runners and the best of seamen ; and to us is the banquet dear, and the harp and the dance, and changes of raiment, and the warm bath and sleep." " Lo now! arise, ye dancers, the best in the land, and fetch for Demodocus the loud lyre, which... | |
 | Edward Norman Gardiner - 1910 - 568 sider
...after what Odysseus has said !) speedy runners and the best of seamen. And then the truth comes out : " Dear to us ever is the banquet, and the harp and the...changes of raiment, and the warm bath and love and sleep ! " Clearly the Phaeacians are no sportsmen, nor Achaeans, and we have really no concern with them;"... | |
 | William Jewett Tucker - 1916 - 240 sider
...must keep their place among us, lest there become "dear to us," as to the Phseacians of the Odyssey, "the banquet, and the harp, and the dance, and changes...raiment, and the warm bath, and love, and sleep." Academic athletics have their drawbacks : there are personal liabilities from overtraining as from... | |
 | 1919 - 560 sider
...achieved by hand and foot in the games from which the strife of boxing and wrestling was excluded. " For we are no perfect boxers nor wrestlers, but speedy...the harp and the dance and changes of raiment and love and sleep." 2 If this be the poet's ideal it is in marked contrast to that expressed in Hector's... | |
 | Wallace Everett Caldwell - 1919 - 170 sider
...achieved by hand and foot in the games from which the strife of boxing and wrestling was excluded. " For we are no perfect boxers nor wrestlers, but speedy...the harp and the dance and changes of raiment and love and sleep." 8 If this be the poet's ideal it is in marked contrast to that expressed in Hector's... | |
 | Theodore Andrea Cook - 1919 - 218 sider
...well ; but he took the Stewards' for the second time. In 1846 (in the first outriggers) i ' We are speedy runners and the best of seamen ; and dear to...of raiment and the warm bath and love and sleep.' — Od. viii. 247. he lost again to Cambridge at Putney, but secured the Stewards' for the third time... | |
 | Henry Rosher James - 1921 - 474 sider
...dancing. " For," said he, with humorous disregard of the boasts he had made a little while before, " we are no perfect boxers, nor wrestlers, but speedy...seamanship, and speed of foot, and in the dance and song." 1 Then there was a pretty display of dancing in the fashion of the day, which Odysseus praised in courteous... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1927 - 614 sider
...of truculently virile warriorhood: * We are not perfect boxers or wrestlers. . . . Dear to us always is the banquet, and the harp, and the dance, and changes...raiment, and the warm bath, and love, and sleep.' And, mysteriously, Mr. Routh cites ' kennings ', which takes the place in Beowulf of the Homeric similies,... | |
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