"Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse."

The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 192.

"And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the sky."

The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 366.

"Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!"

The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 367.

"A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue."

The Odyssey of Homer. Book viii. Line 432.

"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.

"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."

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."

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.

"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."

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."

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.

"True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,-- Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest."

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."

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.