The Iliad and Odyssey Tr. Into Engl. Blank Verse by W. Cowper

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1809 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Nor this suffic'd, but I resented still The woes of Hercules, whom thou by storms, Call'd with malicious purpose from the North, Hadst driven devious o'er the barren Deep To wealthy Cos; for I releas'd him thence, And, after num'rous toils, at last he reach'd The shores of fruitful Argos, sav'd by me. I thus remind thee now, that thou mayst cease Henceforth from artifice, and mayst be taught How little all the dalliance and the love, Which, stealing down from Heav'n, thou hast by fraud Obtain'd from me, shall favour thy designs f- sit dtpvyerw itov-fw. -- Euripides in like manner calls the sea -- f The Translator seizes the opportunity afforded to him by this remarkable passage, to assure his readers, who are not readers of the original, that the discipline, which Juno is here said to have suffered from the hands of Jove, is not of his own invention. He found it in the original, and considering fidelity as his indispensable duty, has not attempted to soften or to refine away the matter. He begs that this observation may be adverted to as often as any passage shall occur, in which ancient practices or customs, not consonant to our own, either in point of delicacy or humanity, may be either expressed or alluded to. He makes this request the rather, because on these occasions Mr. Pope has observed a different conduct, suppressing all such images as he had reason to suppose might be offensive. The scourge of Jupiter, it should be remembered, is his lightning, according to that in the second book -- ore r dpip) Tufiasi yoiia. v He ended, whom Imperial Juno heard Shudd'ring, and in wing'd...