In death a hero, as in life a friend!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 758
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line 758
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- The mildest manners, and the gentlest heart.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book xvii, Line... - Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore;
Give me to see,
and Ajax asks no more. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - He held his seat,--a friend to human race.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line... - A green old age,
That proves the hero born in better days.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer,... - Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend;
And each brave foe was in his soul a friend.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer,... - Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer,... - Achilles absent was Achilles still.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line... - Ajax the great...
Himself a host.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book iii, Line... - And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book xiii, Line...
