'T is fortune gives us birth,

But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 290.

Daughter of Jove, relentless power,

Thou tamer of the human breast,

Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour

The bad affright, afflict the best!

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): Hymn to Adversity.

His nature is too noble for the world:

He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,

Or Jove for's power to thunder.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.

To labour is the lot of man below;

And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book x. Line 78.

At lovers' perjuries,

They say, Jove laughs.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie,

And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Palamon and Arcite. Book ii. Line 758.

Jove lifts the golden balances that show

The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 271.

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,

Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Annus Mirabilis. Stanza 39.

Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn,

And Pan to Moses lends his pagan horn.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dunciad. Book iii. Line 109.

Look here, upon this picture, and on this,

The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.

See, what a grace was seated on this brow:

Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;

An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;

A station like the herald Mercury

New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill,—

A combination and a form indeed,

Where every god did seem to set his seal,

To give the world assurance of a man.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,

And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book vi. Line 247.

By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,

And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book vi. Line 247.

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,

And the good suffers while the bad prevails.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book vi. Line 229.

Not from a vain or shallow thought

His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882): The Problem.