...translation : — ' 'Tis ours this son of sorrow to relieve, Cheer the sad heart, nor let affliction grieve. By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give to Jove is lent.' If, however, there is one class of questions, such as that involved in the admission of aliens, or...

...pleased to keep it till their friends could come, Than eat the sweetest by themselves at home. POPE. By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give to Jove is lent. POPE. Instant he flew with hospitable haste, And the new friend with courteous air embraced. POPE....

...The Epitaph. Scatter plenty o'er a smiling land. »t. GRAY — Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 16. well in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast, m. WM. R. ALGEH — n. HOMER— Odyssey. Bk. 6. L. 247. Pope's trans. In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty...

...stranger are from Jove. '" Tis ours this son of sorrow to relieve, Cheer the sad heart, nor let affliction grieve ; By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give to Jove is lent." — HOMER (Pope). She bade them bring food and clothing, for some of her brothers' garments were among...

...Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales, And the good suffers while the bad prevails. Line 229. By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. Line 247. A decent boldness ever meets with friends. Boot mi. Line 67. To heal divisions, to relieve...

...shipwrecked Ulysses : " Tis ours this son of sorrow to relieve, Cheer the sad heart nor let affliction grieve ; By Jove, the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give to Jove is lent." And when in extremity, Ulysses thus addressed Polyphemis, the one-eyed Cyclop : ** At least some hospitable...

...Scotland under the Protectorate, Scottish History Society, pp. 405-41 1. CHAPTER VII. OUTSIDE CHARITIES. " By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give to Jove is lent." — Odyssey. IT would not be doing justice to the good people of St Cuthbert's were we to assume that,...

...Churchyard. St. 16. HI Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms. HERBERT — Jacula Prudentwn. и By .love the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. HOMER — Odyssey. Bk. VI. L. 247. POPE'S trans. 12 It never was our guise To slight the poor, or aught...

...Zeus'.36 The same words are also spoken by Eumaeus.37 Pope's translation is very much to the point here : 'By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent And what to those we give, to Jove we lent'. The presence of human selfishness in generosity is apparent in the second line. Alms are...

...stranger are from Jove. " 'Tis ours this son of sorrow to relieve, Cheer the sad heart, nor let affliction grieve ; By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give to Jove is lent. ' ' — HOMER (Pope). She bade them bring food and clothing, for some of her brothers' garments were...