 Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed.  An Introduction to the History of Religion - Side 300af Frank Byron Jevons - 1896 - 443 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Algernon Cecil - 1909 - 328 sider
...thirtieth century."3 It was 1 Carlyle's "Life in London," ip 130. "Rather would I live upon the earth as the hireling of another, with a landless man who...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." — Butcher and Lang on Odyssey, xi. 489. 2 Gibbon, " Memoirs," p. 236. 3 Dill,... | |
 | Redfern Mason - 1910 - 352 sider
...of the Gaelic chieftain and the words of the dead Achilles to Ulysses, met in the Elysian Fields: " Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with the landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among the dead that be departed." Thus,... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1912 - 410 sider
...dead, the phantoms of men outworn?" (475). " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death," he cries. " Rather would I live on ground, as the hireling of...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed "(488-91). " Persephone doth in no wise deceive thee ! " The dead are as shadows or... | |
 | George Stephen Goodspeed - 1912 - 648 sider
...attractive. The saying of Achilles long remained true of their feeling: "Rather would I live upon the earth as the hireling of another, with a landless man who...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed." 113. Beginnings of Colonization. — The population of Greece kept increasing steadily... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1913 - 786 sider
...ideas of the me of death. Rather would I live on earth as the other world. hireling of another, even with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead." l It was not until several centuries after Homer that happier notions of the future life were taught,... | |
 | Edmund Crosby Quiggin - 1914 - 738 sider
...Achilles with his famous reply to words of courtly comfort : ' Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, great Odysseus. Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who hath no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead that be departed.' Odysseus, however, gives... | |
 | Francis Legge - 1915 - 276 sider
...has called him up from Hades. " Rather would I live upon the soil as the hireling of another, even with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead who are no more1." But the Eleusinian Mysteries were hailed as giving deliverance from these horrors,... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1917 - 422 sider
...speak not comfortably to me of death. Rather would I live on earth as the hireling of another, even with a landless man who had no great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead." 1 It was not until several centuries after Homer that happier notions of the future life were taught,... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1918 - 260 sider
...this shadowy after-life admirably : " Nay, speak not comfortably to me of death, oh great Ulysses. Rather would I live on ground as the hireling of another, with a landless man who had no great livelihood, then bear sway among all the dead that be departed." The Homeric Greeks rejoiced in life like youths... | |
 | 1921 - 206 sider
...speak not comfortably to me of death," Achilles cries out. "Rather would I live on the ground as a hireling of another, with a landless man who had no...great livelihood, than bear sway among all the dead." Dante honored Homer without knowing him. Virgil he loved through lifelong study and worshiped as guide... | |
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