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"And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 106.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 106.
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"The best of things beyond their measure cloy."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 795.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xiii. Line 795.
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"To hide their ignominious heads in Troy."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 170.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 170.
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"Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 251.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xiv. Line 251.
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"Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 157.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 157.
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"And for our country 't is a bliss to die."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 583.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 583.
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"Like strength is felt from hope and from despair."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 852.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 852.
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"Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xvi. Line 267.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xvi. Line 267.
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"Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 730.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 730.
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"The mildest manners, and the gentlest heart."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 756.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 756.
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"In death a hero, as in life a friend!"
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 758.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xvii. Line 758.
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"Patroclus, lov'd of all my martial train, Beyond mankind, beyond myself, is slain!"
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 103.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 103.
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"I live an idle burden to the ground."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 134.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 134.
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"Ah, youth! forever dear, forever kind."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xix. Line 303.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xix. Line 303.
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"Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow,-- For thee, that ever felt another's woe!"
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xix. Line 319.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xix. Line 319.
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"Where'er he mov'd, the goddess shone before."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 127.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 127.
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"The matchless Ganymed, divinely fair."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 278.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 278.
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"'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 290.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 290.
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"Our business in the field of fight Is not to question, but to prove our might."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 304.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 304.
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"A mass enormous! which in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 337.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 337.
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"The bitter dregs of fortune's cup to drain."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 85.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 85.
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"Who dies in youth and vigour, dies the best."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 100.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 100.
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"This, this is misery! the last, the worst That man can feel."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 106.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 106.
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"No season now for calm familiar talk."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 169.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 169.
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"Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 271.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 271.
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"Achilles absent was Achilles still."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 418.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 418.
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"Forever honour'd, and forever mourn'd."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 422.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 422.
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"Unwept, unhonour'd, uninterr'd he lies!"
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 484.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 484.
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"Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro In all the raging impotence of woe."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 526.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 526.
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"Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 543.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxii. Line 543.
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"'T is true, 't is certain; man though dead retains Part of himself: the immortal mind remains."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 122.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 122.
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"Base wealth preferring to eternal praise."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 368.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 368.
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"It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise. 'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 383.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 383.
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"A green old age, unconscious of decays, That proves the hero born in better days."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 929.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 929.
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"Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood,-- The source of evil one, and one of good."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 663.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 663.
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"The mildest manners with the bravest mind."
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 963.
The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiv. Line 963.
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"Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 207.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 207.
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"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar'd."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 312.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 312.
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"Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 315.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 315.
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"For never, never, wicked man was wise."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 320.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book ii. Line 320.
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"Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies; And sure he will: for Wisdom never lies."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 25.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 25.
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"The lot of man,--to suffer and to die."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 117.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 117.
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"A faultless body and a blameless mind."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 138.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 138.
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"The long historian of my country's woes."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 142.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 142.
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"Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 285.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 285.
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"When now Aurora, daughter of the dawn, With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 516.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iii. Line 516.
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"These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!"
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 118.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 118.
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"Mirror of constant faith, rever'd and mourn'd!"
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 229.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 229.
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"There with commutual zeal we both had strove In acts of dear benevolence and love: Brothers in peace, not rivals in command."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 241.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 241.
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"The glory of a firm, capacious mind."
Alexander Pope / The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 262.
The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 262.
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