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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me. - The Iliad (bk. IX, l. 725), (Pope's translation) [Friendship] He spake, and into every heart his words Carried new strength and courage. - The Iliad (bk. V, l. 586), (Bryant's translation) [Speech] O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death. - The Iliad (bk. V, l. 663), (Bryant's translation) [Courage] One who journeying Along a way he knows not, having crossed A place of drear extent, before him sees A river rushing swiftly toward the deep, And all its tossing current white with foam, And stops and turns, and measures back his way. - The Iliad (bk. V, l. 749), (Bryant's translation) [Traveling] Whose little body lodged a mighty mind. - The Iliad (bk. V, l. 999), (Pope's translation) [Mind] Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was by the road-side and he entertained all men. - The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 12), (Lang's translation) [Hospitality] He held his seat; a friend to human race. - The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 18), (Pope's translation) [Humanity] Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,-- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive; and successive rise. - The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 181), (Pope's translation) [Man] If yet not lost to all the sense of shame. - The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 350), (Pope's translation) [Shame] A happier lot were mine, If I must lose thee, to go down to earth, For I shall have no hope when thou art gone,-- Nothing but sorrow. Father have I none, And no dear mother. - The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 530), (Bryant's translation) [Sorrow] Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee. - The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 544), (Pope's translation) [Matrimony] No living man can send me to the shades Before my time; no man of woman born, Coward or brave, can shun his destiny. - The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 623), (Bryant's translation) [Destiny] Andromache! my soul's far better part. - The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 624), (Pope's translation) [Matrimony : Wives] He, from whose lips divine persuasion flows. - The Iliad (bk. VII, l. 143), (Pope's translation) [Speech] Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. - The Iliad (bk. VII, l. 364), (Pope's translation) [Contention] I war not with the dead. - The Iliad (bk. VII, l. 485), (Pope's translation) [War] Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays Smote the surrounding fields. - The Iliad (bk. VII, l. 525), (Bryant's translation) [Morning] Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. - The Iliad (bk. VIII, l. 605), (Pope's translation) [Night] Content to follow when we lead the way. - The Iliad (bk. X, l. 141), (Pope's translation) [Example] For all on a razor's edge it stands. - The Iliad (bk. X, l. 173) [Danger] He serves me most who serves his country best. - The Iliad (bk. X, l. 206), (Pope's translation) [Patriotism] For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives Before the other how they ought to act; While one alone, however prompt, resolves More tardily and with a weaker will. - The Iliad (bk. X, l. 257), (Bryant's translation) [Resolution] Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me. - The Iliad (bk. X, l. 289), (Bryant's translation) [Praise] Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know. - The Iliad (bk. X, l. 293), (Pope's translation) [Praise] To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. - The Iliad (bk. X, l. 78), (Pope's translation) [Labor] Displaying page 4 of 10 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9 10
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