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PLATE LXXII.
The Olympic Games.
A tribute to Homer.
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PLATE LXXIII.
The Olympic Games.
The shrine of Vesta.
PLATE LXXIV.
The Olympic Games.
Wors.h.i.+pping Athene in the Court of the Erechtheum.
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PLATE LXXV.
The Olympic Games.
Oblation to Bacchus.
PLATE LXXVI.
The Olympic Games.
Oblation to Bacchus, and procession before the Parthenon. From the Perry house at Keene, N. H., on whose parlor walls is preserved the only other known example of the paper just described. (p. 50)
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PLATE LXXVII.
The Lady of the Lake.
This series of scenes in neutral colors is photographed from the parlor of the Rev. Pelham Williams, at Greenbush, Ma.s.s., whose house is one of three on which it still hangs in good condition.
The other examples are the Hayward house at Wayland, Ma.s.s., and the Alexander Ladd house, now owned by Mrs. Charles Wentworth, at Portsmouth, N. H.
CANTO I. THE CHASE.
III.
Yelled on the view the opening pack-- Rock, glen, and cavern paid them back; To many a mingled sound at once The awakened mountain gave response.
An hundred dogs bayed deep and strong, Clattered a hundred steeds along, Their peal the merry horns rang out, An hundred voices joined the shout; With bark, and whoop, and wild halloo, No rest Benvoirlich's echoes knew.
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PLATE LXXVIII.
The Lady of the Lake.
CANTO III. THE GATHERING.
VIII.
'Twas all prepared--and from the rock, A goat, the patriarch of the flock, Before the kindling pile was laid, And pierced by Roderick's ready blade.
