...And dress, and the rich feast set forth in fair array. 8 Then did the herald with the bard arrive, Whom the Muse loved, and gave him good and ill ; 111,...Made the blind fingers feel the harp suspended there. 6 Close at his side a table fair he placed, With food and wine-cup ranged at distance due, Whereof...

...And dress, and the rich feast set forth in fair array. 8 Then did the herald with the bard arrive, Whom the Muse loved, and gave him good and ill ; 111,...Made the blind fingers feel the harp suspended there. 6 Close at his side a table fair he placed, With food and wine-cup ranged at distance due, Whereof...

...array. 8 Then did the herald with the bard arrive, Whom the Muse loved, and gave him good and ill ; I11, that of light she did his eyes deprive, Good, that...Made the blind fingers feel the harp suspended there. 6 Close at his side a table fair he placed, With food and wine-cup ranged at distance due, Whereof...

...of his later rivals. But this blind Demodocus, like to the gods in voice, was he Homer's portrait of himself — ' Whom the Muse loved, and gave him good...will She lent him, and a voice men's ears to thrill ' ? There is a beautiful passage in the Homeric ' Hymn to the 'Delian Apollo,' thus rendered in Coleridge's...

...where the blind harper Dcmodocus is introduced as singing his lays in the halls of King Alcinous : — "Whom the Muse loved, and gave him good and ill —...will She lent him, and a voice men's ears to thrill." (W. ) So, in the same poem, the only other bard who appears is also blind — Phemius, who is compelled...

...harper Demodocus is introduced as singing his lays in the halls of King Alcinous : — "Whom the Hose loved, and gave him good and ill — 111, that of...will She lent him, and a voice men's ears to thrill." (W.) So, in the same poem, the only other bard who appears is also blind — Pheinius, who is compelled...

...where the blind harper Demodocus is introduced as Binging his lays in the halls of King Alcinous : — "Whom the Muse loved, and gave him good and ill—...will She lent him, and a voice men's ears to thrill." (W.) So, in the same poem, the only other hard who appears is also blind — Phemius, who is compelled...

..."Whom the Muse loved, and gave him good and illIll, that of light she did his eyes deprive ; Go»d, that sweet minstrelsies divine at will She lent him, and a voice men's ears to thrill.'' (W. ) So, in the same poem, the only other bard who appears is also blind — Phemius, who is compelled...

...next day is devoted to feasting and games in honour of the stranger. Amongst the company sits the Hind minstrel Demodocus, in whose person it has been thought...Against the column, and with tender care Made the Wind fingers feel the harp suspended there." Such honour has the bard in all lands. The king's son...

...held in honour of the stranger, and at the banquet the blind bard Demodocus, in whom, it is thought, the poet describes himself,— ' Whom the muse loved,...will She lent him, and a voice men's ears to thrill,' — (Wtrtlty), sings the tale of Troy. Ulysses is moved to tears, and the king, marking his emotion,...