All 5 Uses of
beguile
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- Your widow'd hours, apart, with female toil And various labours of the loom beguile; There rule, from palace-cares remote and free; That care to man belongs, and most to me."†
Book 1
- Why were my cares beguiled in short repose?†
Book 12 *
- There, in Calypso's ever-fragrant bowers, Refresh'd I lay, and joy beguiled the hours.†
Book 12
- Studious of rest and warmth, Ulysses lies, Foreseeing from the first the storm would rise In mere necessity of coat and cloak, With artful preface to his host he spoke: "Hear me, my friends! who this good banquet grace; 'tis sweet to play the fool in time and place, And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile, The grave in merry measures frisk about, And many a long-repented word bring out.†
Book 14
- Thus the fam'd hero, perfected in wiles, With fair similitude of truth beguiles The queen's attentive ear: dissolved in woe, From her bright eyes the tears unbounded flow, As snows collected on the mountain freeze; When milder regions breathe a vernal breeze, The fleecy pile obeys the whispering gales, Ends in a stream, and murmurs through the vales: So, melting with the pleasing tale he told, Down her fair cheek the copious torrent roll'd: She to her present lord laments him lost, And…†
Book 19
Definition:
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(beguile) to charm, enchant, or entertain someone; or to deceive -- especially through charm