Thomas Starling Norgate

Thomas Starling Norgate (20 August 1772 – 7 July 1859) was an English writer, journalist and newspaper editor.

Quotes

Translations

The Odyssey (1863)

London: Williams and Norgate

• The travelled Man of many a turn,—driven far,
  Far wandering, when he had sacked Troy's sacred Town;
  Tell me, O Muse, his tale: how too he conned
  The manners of mankind, and visited
  Full many a City, and how on the deep he suffered
  Many a heart-pang, striving to secure
  His own and comrades' lives and safe return.
  Yet them he rescued not, howe'er desirous;
  For by their own blind folly they all perished:
  Fools that they were! to eat the Sun-god's herds:
  So, Hyperion, he who Walks above,
  Bereft them of their day of home-return!
  Whereof, from whatsoever source, O goddess,
  Daughter of Zeus, vouchsafe to tell e'en Us!
  • Book 1, line 1

•    I, all dying on the ground,
  Lifted and threw my hands to clutch my sword;
  But she, that hound-faced one, was gone; nor had she
  The heart to set my mouth together for me,
  Or with her hands to close mine eyes, though going
  To Hadès as I was.
  • Book 11, line 424

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Thomas Starling Norgate on Wikipedia