THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE, WITH COPIOUS ALTERATIONS AND NOTES, PREPARED FOR THE PRESS BY THE TRANSLATOR, WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. AND PUBLISHED WITH A PREFACE BY HIS KINSMAN, J. JOHNSON, LL.B. CHAPLAIN TO THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGH. Τάδε δ ̓ ἀεὶ πάρεσθ ̓ ὅμοια, διὰ δὲ τῶν αὐτῶν ἀεὶ. -EPICHARMUS. THIRD EDITION. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, By. Hamilton, Weybridge. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE COUNTESS DOWAGER SPENCER, THE FOLLOWING TRANSLATION OF THE ODYSSEY, A POEM THAT EXHIBITS, IN THE CHARACTER OF ITS HEROINE, AN EXAMPLE OF ALL DOMESTIC VIRTUE, IS WITH EQUAL PROPRIETY AND RESPECT INSCRIBED BY HER LADYSHIP'S MOST DEVOTED SERVANT, THE AUTHOR. |