"Consulting how they might with safety bring about his restoration"
"'But such as your fare is, eat it, and be welcome'"
"'I am no more but thy father: I am even he'"
"But the greater part reviled him and bade him begone"
"When the maids were lighting the queen through a stately gallery"
"Rose in a mass to overwhelm and crush those two"
THE ADVENTURES OF ULYSSES
CHAPTER ONE
The Cicons.—The Fruit of the Lotos-tree.—Polyphemus and the Cyclops.—
The Kingdom of the Winds, and God Aeolus's Fatal Present.—The
Laestrygonian Man-eaters.
This history tells of the wanderings of Ulysses and his followers in their return from Troy, after the destruction of that famous city of Asia by the Grecians. He was inflamed with a desire of seeing again, after a ten years' absence, his wife and native country, Ithaca. He was king of a barren spot, and a poor country in comparison of the fruitful plains of Asia, which he was leaving, or the wealthy kingdoms which he touched upon in his return; yet, wherever he came, he could never see a soil which appeared in his eyes half so sweet or desirable as his country earth. This made him refuse the offers of the goddess Calypso to stay with her, and partake of her immortality in the delightful island; and this gave him strength to break from the enchantments of Circe, the daughter of the Sun.