Broome
Cited as Broome. — 24 quotations
Allotment
A vineyard and an allotment for olives and herbs.
Buffet
The sudden hurricane in thunder roars, Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
Bulge
And scattered navies bulge on distant shores.
Compatible
Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible.
Foil
Hector has a foil to set him off.
Initiation
Silence is the first thing that is taught us at our initiation into sacred mysteries.
Inquisitive
A wise man is not inquisitive about things impertinent.
Invidious
Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes.
jocose
Spondanus imagines that Ulysses may possibly speak jocosely, but in truth Ulysses never behaves with levity.
Line
In the preceding line Ulysses speaks of Nausicaa.
Modulate
Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many?
Outrage
This interview outrages all decency.
Posterior
Hesiod was posterior to Homer.
Rank
Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
Reputable
In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an enemy as defeat one.
Respond
To every theme responds thy various lay.
Sanguinary
Passion . . . makes us brutal and sanguinary.
Silent
Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men.
Sport
An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.
Strait
Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts.
Suppress
She suppresses the name, and this keeps him in a pleasing suspense.
Trait
By this single trait Homer makes an essential difference between the Iliad and Odyssey.
Transplantation
The transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta.
Watch
Paris watched the flocks in the groves of Ida.