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Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 20.
Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 28.
Lotus, the name; divine, nectareous juice!
The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 106.
Respect us human, and relieve us poor.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book ix. Line 318.
Rare gift! but oh what gift to fools avails!
The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 29.
Our fruitless labours mourn,
And only rich in barren fame return.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 46.
No more was seen the human form divine.[344:2]
The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 278.
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 308.
Let him, oraculous, the end, the way,
The turns of all thy future fate display.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 642.
Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book x. Line 662.
Thin airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 48.
Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 153.
Heav'd on Olympus tott'ring Ossa stood;
On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.[344:3]
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 387.
The first in glory, as the first in place.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 441.
[345]
Soft as some song divine thy story flows.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 458.
Oh woman, woman! when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.[345:1]
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 531.
What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose!
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 541.
But sure the eye of time beholds no name
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 591.
And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 722.
Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 736.
There in the bright assemblies of the skies.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 745.
Gloomy as night he stands.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xi. Line 749.
All, soon or late, are doom'd that path to tread.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xii. Line 31.
And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.[345:2]
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xii. Line 538.
He ceas'd; but left so pleasing on their ear
His voice, that list'ning still they seem'd to hear.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 1.
His native home deep imag'd in his soul.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 38.
And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last and hardest conquest of the mind.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 353.
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiii. Line 375.
It never was our guise
To slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiv. Line 65.
The sex is ever to a soldier kind.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiv. Line 246.
Far from gay cities and the ways of men.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiv. Line 410.
And wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xiv. Line 520.
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme,
And both the golden mean alike condemn.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 79.
[346]
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,—
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.[346:1]
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 83.
For too much rest itself becomes a pain.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 429.
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 433.
And taste
The melancholy joy of evils past:
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 434.
For love deceives the best of womankind.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xv. Line 463.
And would'st thou evil for his good repay?
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvi. Line 448.
Whatever day
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 392.
In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 505.
Unbless'd thy hand, if in this low disguise
Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies.[346:2]
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xvii. Line 576.
Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow;
And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xviii. Line 26.
Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow
For others' good, and melt at others' woe.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xviii. Line 269.
A winy vapour melting in a tear.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xix. Line 143.
But he whose inborn worth his acts commend,
Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xix. Line 383.
The fool of fate,—thy manufacture, man.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xx. Line 254.
Impatient straight to flesh his virgin sword.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xx. Line 461.
[347]
Dogs, ye have had your day!
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxii. Line 41.
For dear to gods and men is sacred song.
Self-taught I sing; by Heaven, and Heaven alone,
The genuine seeds of poesy are sown.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxii. Line 382.
So ends the bloody business of the day.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxii. Line 516.
And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 19.
The ruins of himself! now worn away
With age, yet still majestic in decay.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 271.
And o'er the past Oblivion stretch her wing.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 557.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.[347:1]
Letter to Gay, Oct. 6, 1727.
This is the Jew
That Shakespeare drew.[347:2]
[314:2] See Milton, page 223.
There is no theme more plentiful to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.
Du Bartas: Days and Weeks, third day.
[315:1] See Milton, page 242.
[315:2] Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy.—Pascal: Thoughts, chap. v. 2.
[316:1] All the parts of the universe I have an interest in: the earth serves me to walk upon; the sun to light me; the stars have their influence upon me.—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond.
[316:2] See Sir John Davies, page 176.
[316:3] See Dryden, page 267.
[316:4] There is no great and no small.—Emerson: Epigraph to History.
[316:5] See Dryden, page 276.
[317:1] La vray science et le vray étude de l'homme c'est l'homme (The true science and the true study of man is man).—Charron: De la Sagesse, lib. i. chap. 1.
Trees and fields tell me nothing: men are my teachers.—Plato: Phædrus.
[317:2] What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe.—Pascal: Thoughts, chap. x.
[317:3] See Dryden, page 269.
[318:1] Why may not a goose say thus? . . . there is nothing that yon heavenly roof looks upon so favourably as me; I am the darling of Nature. Is it not man that keeps and serves me?—Montaigne: Apology for Raimond Sebond.
[318:2] See Cowley, page 260.
[319:1] See Fletcher, page 183.
[319:2] See Cowley, page 262.
[319:3]
May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
Savage: Character of Foster.
[320:1] See Bolingbroke, page 304.
[320:2] See Dryden, page 273.
[320:3] 'T is virtue makes the bliss where'er we dwell.—Collins: Oriental Eclogues, i. line 5.
[321:1] Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis (All things change, and we change with them).—Matthais Borbonius: Deliciæ Poetarum Germanorum, i. 685.
[321:2] See Prior, page 287.
[322:1] See Milton, page 231.
[322:2] See Brown, page 287.
[323:1] See Suckling, page 256.
[323:2] Quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus (Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods).—Horace: De Arte Poetica, 359.
[323:3] See Bacon, page 166.
[323:4] See Suckling, page 257.
[325:1]
Then gently scan your brother man,
Still gentler sister woman;
Though they may gang a kennin' wrang,
To step aside is human.
Burns: Address to the Unco Guid.
[325:2] See Shakespeare, page 96.
[325:3] Indocti discant et ament meminisse periti (Let the unlearned learn, and the learned delight in remembering). This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Hénault's "Abrégé Chronologique," and in the preface to the third edition of this work Hénault acknowledges that he had given it as a translation of this couplet.
[326:1] See Burton, page 191.
[327:1] See Bacon, page 168.
[327:2] See Denham, page 258.
[327:3]
When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises;
Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:
So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
P. Fletcher: The Purple Island, canto vii.
[327:4] See page 336.
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