Read this excerpt from book 24 of homer's odyssey, and then complete the sentences. then thus the son: "from alybas i came, my palace there; eperitus my name not vulgar born: from aphidas, the king of polyphemon's royal line, i spring. some adverse demon from sicania bore our wandering course, and drove us on your shore; far from the town, an unfrequented bay relieved our wearied vessel from the sea. five years have circled since these eyes pursued ulysses parting through the sable flood: prosperous he sail'd, with dexter auguries, and all the wing'd good omens of the skies. well hoped we then to meet on this fair shore, whom heaven, alas! decreed to meet no more."

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

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