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Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. - The Odyssey (bk. X, l. 622), (Pope's translation) [Eating] Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 153), (Pope's translation) [Ignorance] So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 164), (Pope's translation) [Peace] Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 387), (Pope's translation) [Mountains] The first in glory, as the first in place. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 441), (Pope's translation) [Glory] Soft as some song divine, thy story flows. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 458), (Pope's translation) [Story Telling] Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 48), (Pope's translation) [Apparitions] O woman, woman, when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 531), (Pope's translation) [Women] What mighty woes To thy imperial race from woman rose. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 541), (Pope's translation) [Women] But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 591), (Pope's translation) [Fame] And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 722), (Pope's translation) [Water] Gloomy as night he stands. - The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 744), (Pope's translation) [Appearance] Close by a rock, or less enormous height, Breaks the wild waves, and forms a dangerous strait; Full on its crown, a fig's green branches rise, And shoot a leafy forest to the skies. - The Odyssey (bk. XII, l. 125), (Pope's translation) [Figs] All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread. - The Odyssey (bk. XII, l. 31), (Pope's translation) [Destiny] I hate To tell again a tale once fully told. - The Odyssey (bk. XII, l. 566), (Bryant's translation) [Story Telling] And what so tedious as a twice-told tale. - The Odyssey (bk. XII, last line), (Pope's translation) [Story Telling] And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind. - The Odyssey (bk. XIII, l. 353), (Pope's translation) [Mind] How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! - The Odyssey (bk. XIII, l. 375), (Pope's translation) [Wisdom] His native home deep imag'd in his soul. - The Odyssey (bk. XIII, l. 38) [Home] The sex is ever to a soldier kind. - The Odyssey (bk. XIV, l. 246), (Pope's translation) [Soldiers] Far from the gay cities, and the ways of men. - The Odyssey (bk. XIV, l. 410), (Pope's translation) [Country Life] And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. - The Odyssey (bk. XIV, l. 520), (Bryant's translation) [Wine and Spirits] It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught humane despise. - The Odyssey (bk. XIV, l. 65), (Pope's translation) [Philanthropy] But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. - The Odyssey (bk. XIX, l. 383), (Pope's translation) [Character] For too much rest itself becomes a pain. - The Odyssey (bk. XV, l. 429), (Pope's translation) [Rest] Displaying page 9 of 10 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9] 10
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