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For love deceives the best of woman kind. - The Odyssey (bk. XV, l. 463), (Pope's translation) [Love] Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. - The Odyssey (bk. XV, l. 79), (Pope's translation) [Love] True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. - The Odyssey (bk. XV, l. 83), (Pope's translation) [Hospitality] And would'st thou evil for his good repay? - The Odyssey (bk. XVI, l. 448), (Pope's translation) [Retaliation] Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. - The Odyssey (bk. XVII, l. 392), (Pope's translation) [Slavery] In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. - The Odyssey (bk. XVII, l. 505), (Pope's translation) [Philanthropy] Unbless'd thy hand!--if in this low disguise Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies. - The Odyssey (bk. XVII, l. 570), (Pope's translation) [Angels] Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow. - The Odyssey (bk. XVIII, l. 26), (Pope's translation) [Wealth] Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For other's good, and melt at other's woe. - The Odyssey (bk. XVIII, l. 269), (Pope's translation) [Sympathy] The fool of fate, thy manufacture, man. - The Odyssey (bk. XX, l. 254), (Pope's translation) [Man] For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Self-taught I sing; by Heaven and Heaven alone, The genuine seed of poesy are sown. - The Odyssey (bk. XXII, l. 382), (Pope's translation) [Poetry] So ends the bloody business of the day. - The Odyssey (bk. XXII, l. 516), (Pope's translation) [War] The fiction pleased; our generous train complies, Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise. The work she plyed, but, studious of delay, Each following night reversed the toils of day. - The Odyssey (bk. XXIV, l. 164), (Pope's translation) [Work] And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell, In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel. - The Odyssey (bk. XXIV, l. 19), (Pope's translation) [Soul] The ruins of himself! now worn away With age, yet still majestic in decay. - The Odyssey (bk. XXIV, l. 2271), (Pope's translation) [Ruin] And o'er the past oblivion stretch her wing. - The Odyssey (bk. XXIV, l. 557), (Pope's translation) [Oblivion] (Orion) A hunter of shadows, himself a shade. - The Odyssey (II, 572) [Shadows] It is not right to exult over slain men. - The Odyssey (XII, 412), quoted by John Morley in a speech during the Boer War [War] Displaying page 10 of 10 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10]
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