Alexander Pope Quotes About Speed

Quotes about: Speed

• Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

  Alexander Pope

  Soul, Speed, Sigh

  Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.39

• True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
  Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

  Translation of the Odyssey, bk. 15, l. 83 (1725 - 1756)

• For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

  Alexander Pope

  Sage, Guests, Welcome

  'Imitations of Horace' Horace bk. 2, Satire 2 (1734) l. 159 ('speed the parting guest' in Pope's translation of The Odyssey (1725-6) bk. 15, l. 84)

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