Word: iliad
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...BRIGGS read the twenty-second book of the Iliad, Wednesday evening, in Harvard Hall...
...past, and longed to fit for college. Neither my father nor Father Reilly wished me to go to the Public Schools, on account of the low standard of social position. I studied by myself. By blacking boots, I earned enough to buy Bohn's translation of the Iliad, and was entranced with the beauty of that noble poem. I entered in 1876, and since then I have done nothing but study. I have left college only once, and that was on St. Patrick's Day, when my father's society gave a free lunch...
...Iliad...
...Homer, Iliad...
...BARON BRIGGS will read the Sixth Iliad next Wednesday evening...