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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 344 |
| Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued) |
| 3755 |
| 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. |
| 3758 |
| 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. |
| 3759 |
| Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 20. |
| 3760 |
| Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 28. |
| 3761 |
| Lotus, the name; divine, nectareous juice! |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 106. |
| 3762 |
| Respect us human, and relieve us poor. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 318. |
| 3763 |
| Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails! |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 29. |
| 3764 |
| Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 46. |
| 3765 |
| No more was seen the human form divine. 2 |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 278. |
| 3766 |
| And not a man appears to tell their fate. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 308. |
| 3767 |
| Let him, oraculous, the end, the way, The turns of all thy future fate display. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 642. |
| 3768 |
| Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 662. |
| 3769 |
| Thin airy shoals of visionary ghosts. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 48. |
| 3770 |
| Who ne’er knew salt, or heard the billows roar. |
| The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 153. |
| 3771 |
| 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. |
| 3772 |
| 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] |
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