PLEASING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 You may preach as much as you please, but we shall only hate you the more.
2 Still it has pleased heaven to prosper my work in the situation which I now hold.
3 Circe,' said I, 'please to keep the promise you made me about furthering me on my homeward voyage.
4 The servant carried the pork in his fingers over to Demodocus, who took it and was very much pleased.
5 My dears, heaven has been pleased to try me with more affliction than any other woman of my age and country.
6 He gave Ulysses some slices cut lengthways down the loin as a mark of especial honour, and Ulysses was much pleased.
7 What you wonder at is the work of the redoubtable goddess Minerva, who does with me whatever she will, for she can do what she pleases.
8 You shall go to bed as soon as you please," replied Penelope, "now that the gods have sent you home to your own good house and to your country.
9 Thus did he speak, and his words pleased them well, so they rose forthwith and went to the house of Ulysses, where they took their accustomed seats.
10 Then the dear old nurse Euryclea said, "You may kill me, Madam, or let me live on in your house, whichever you please, but I will tell you the real truth."
11 Go home, therefore, and put everything in charge of the most respectable woman servant that you have, until it shall please heaven to send you a wife of your own.
12 But Ulysses said, "Young women, please to stand a little on one side that I may wash the brine from my shoulders and anoint myself with oil, for it is long enough since my skin has had a drop of oil upon it."
13 Therefore I am suppliant at your knees, if haply you may be pleased to tell me of his melancholy end, whether you saw it with your own eyes, or heard it from some other traveller, for he was a man born to trouble.
14 Then Mercury of Cyllene summoned the ghosts of the suitors, and in his hand he held the fair golden wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases; with this he roused the ghosts and led them, while they followed whining and gibbering behind him.
15 If there were meat and wine enough, and we could stay here in the hut with nothing to do but to eat and drink while the others go to their work, I could easily talk on for a whole twelve months without ever finishing the story of the sorrows with which it has pleased heaven to visit me.
16 We are extremely fond of good dinners, music, and dancing; we also like frequent changes of linen, warm baths, and good beds, so now, please, some of you who are the best dancers set about dancing, that our guest on his return home may be able to tell his friends how much we surpass all other nations as sailors, runners, dancers, and minstrels.
17 He took the wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand over Pieria; then he swooped down through the firmament till he reached the level of the sea, whose waves he skimmed like a cormorant that flies fishing every hole and corner of the ocean, and drenching its thick plumage in the spray.
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