John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued) |
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| And unextinguish’d laughter shakes the sky. 1 |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 366. |
| 3756 |
| Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong! |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 367. |
| 3757 |
| A gen’rous heart repairs a sland’rous tongue. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 432. |
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| Just are the ways of Heaven: from Heaven proceed The woes of man; Heaven doom’d the Greeks to bleed,— A theme of future song! |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 631. |
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| Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 20. |
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| Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 28. |
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| Lotus, the name; divine, nectareous juice! |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 106. |
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| Respect us human, and relieve us poor. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 318. |
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| Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails! |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 29. |
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| Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 46. |
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| No more was seen the human form divine. 2 |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 278. |
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| And not a man appears to tell their fate. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 308. |
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| Let him, oraculous, the end, the way, The turns of all thy future fate display. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 642. |
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| Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 662. |
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| Thin airy shoals of visionary ghosts. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 48. |
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| Who ne’er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 153. |
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| Heav’d on Olympus tott’ring Ossa stood; On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. 3 |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 387. |
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| The first in glory, as the first in place. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 441. |
| Note 1. See Quotation 260. [back] |
| Note 2. Human face divine.—John Milton: Paradise Lost, book iii. line 44. [back] |
| Note 3. Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion.—Ovid: Metamorphoses i. [back] |