Over the mantelpiece was a copy, by the artist, of "ulysses deriding Polyphemus."
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The number of imitations is countless: Fielding, Johnson, Goldsmith, and many men of less fame tried to repeat the success; persons of quality, such as Chesterfield and Horace Walpole, condescended to write papers for the World-the 'Bow of ulysses,' as it was called, in which they could test their strength.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
"It's an arrangement of nature, my dear ulysses," he said.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn