Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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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