Sentence examples for Homer from inspiring English sources

It served me well standing on the side of countless wet hillsides, and I wonder whether the mystical powers of tea, like the great verses of Homer, are somehow passed down through the generations.

I read Thucydides and Homer in the original, but I am no toff.

Keats's sonnet, On first looking into Chapman's Homer, expresses his passion for poetry by using imagery of exploration and discovery, which never fails to thrill me.

Of course, we have to go to Homer.

Homer said: "I would just ask you to understand that we are only in a very limited way regulators of the bank in relation to their tax activity.

Homer insisted staff in her department had been diligent in their approach to the files and said their record of securing one conviction and £135m in unpaid tax, fines and interest compared well with other countries.

From Homer he has come to believe that human life, with its painful choices and inevitable end, is preferable to the pointless immortality of the gods.

Homer is not the only great writer with lessons for economic research.

What there is, instead, are the barest bones of the story, stripped, telescoped and re-assembled.Mr Armitage could have turned Homer into something unrecognisable as epic poetry, something that was almost too much in love with the vernacular.

Appearing before the public accounts committee, Lin Homer, chief executive of HMRC, said she believed officials would have told government ministers within months of receiving the data in April 2010.

12pm: Cameron and Miliband clash at PMQs. 2.15pm: Lin Homer, chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, and other officials give evidence to the Commons public accounts committee about unpaid tax and other debt owed to government.