Polypheme

Ovid tells us of a swingeing Fellow, called Polypheme, that made use of the Sea for his Looking-Glass, and could never dress himself to

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

What reception I shall meet with on the shore, I know not; whether the sound of bells, and acclamations of the people, which Ariosto talks of in his last Canto, or a general murmur of dislike, I know not: whether I shall find upon the coast a Calypso that will court, or a Polypheme that will resist.

Litblogging long before the internet Jenny Davidson 2006

That plaguesome Polypheme was Captain Stubbard, begirt with a wife, and endowed with a family almost in excess of benediction, and dancing attendance upon Miss Dolly, too stoutly for his own comfort, in the hope of procuring for his own Penates something to eat and to sit upon.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

And next to these are they that have gotten a foolish but pleasant persuasion that if they can but see a wooden or painted Polypheme

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

"Seest thou these _lids_ that now unfold in vain?" and consists in Mr. Pope having bestowed two organs of sight on the giant Polypheme.

Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850 Various

As did Sir Joshua, so does Mr Fuseli mention his Polypheme groping at the mouth of his cave for Ulysses.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

But the traditions of Polypheme and his Cyclops represent them as advanced beyond this first rude stage of society, though they still adhered to their ancestral caves.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

Polypheme was a shepherd, and so were all his clan.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

For my own part, I must confess, so compassionate is my temper, I wish Polypheme had confined himself to his milk diet, and preserved his eye; nor could Ulysses be much more concerned than myself, when his companions were turned into swine by Circe, who showed, I think, afterwards, too much regard for man’s flesh to be supposed capable of converting it into bacon.

I. A Wonderful Long Chapter Concerning the Marvellous. Book VIII 1917

And in the Odyssey—that’s a beautiful poem—there’s a more wonderful giant than Goliath, —Polypheme, who had only one eye in the middle of his forehead; and Ulysses, a little fellow, but very wise and cunning, got a red-hot pine-tree and stuck it into this one eye, and made him roar like a thousand bulls.

III. The New Schoolfellow. Book II—School-Time 1917