 I will tell thee as I see him in spirit. Goodly Odysseus wore a thick, purple mantle, twofold, which had a brooch fashioned in gold, with a double covering for the pins, and on the face of it was a curious device: a hound in his forepaws held a dappled...  Classical Philology - Page 2551918Full view - About this book
 | Homerus - 1879 - 518 pages
...: a hound in his forepaws held a dappled fawn and gazed on it as it writhed. And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold,...and glistering as the sun ; truly many women looked thereon and wondered. Yet another thing will I tell thee, and do thou ponder it in thy heart. I know... | |
 | Homer - 1879 - 422 pages
...device : a hound in his forepaws held a dappled fawn and gripped it as it writhed. And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold, the hound was watching the fawn and strangling it, and the fawn was writhing with his feet and striving to flee.... | |
 | Homer, Samuel Henry Butcher, Andrew Lang - 1883 - 472 pages
...: a hound in his forepaws held a dappled fawn and gazed on it as it writhed. And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold,...and glistering as the sun ; truly many women looked thereon and wondered. Yet another thing will I tell thee, and do thou ponder it in thy heart. I know... | |
 | 1886 - 508 pages
...device, a hound in his forepaws held a dappled fawn and gazed on it as it writhed. And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold,...was writhing with his feet and striving to flee." Certainly in this passage the poet shows a marvellous power of putting life into a simple design, such... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1886 - 524 pages
...forepaws held a dappled fawn and gazed on it as it writhed. And all men marvelled at the work manship, how, wrought as they were in gold, the hound was gazing...was writhing with his feet and striving to flee." Certainly in this passage the poet shows a marvellous power of putting life into a simple design, such... | |
 | Percy Gardner - 1892 - 496 pages
...accustomed to see brooches well engraved write in regard to the device of a brooch, " And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold,...was writhing with his feet and striving to flee." Such a description even applied to a painting by Landseer would sound hyperbolic. Such passages seem... | |
 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1892 - 352 pages
...; a hound in his forepaws held a dappled fawn and gazed on it as it writhed. And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold,...the fawn was writhing with his feet and striving to flee.i The brooch, it is to be observed, was duplex. Two pins were received into two confronting tubes,... | |
 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1892 - 358 pages
...And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they wore in gold, tho hound was gazing oil the fawn and strangling it, and the fawn was writhing with his feet and striving to flee.i The brooch, it is to be observed, was duplex. Two pins were received into two confronting tubes,... | |
 | Chrēstos Tsountas, James Irving Manatt - 1897 - 522 pages
...And all men marveled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold, the hound was watching the fawn and strangling it, and the fawn was writhing with his feet and striving to flee." — Od. xix. 225 £f. tomb together with another brooch of the earlier form and about the same size... | |
 | Homer - 1909 - 376 pages
...device: a hound in his forepaws held a dappled fawn and gazed on it as it writhed. And all men marvelled at the workmanship, how, wrought as they were in gold,...Moreover, I marked the shining doublet about his body, like the gleam over the skin of a dried onion, so smooth it was, and glistering as the sun; truly many... | |
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