Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 852
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 852
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- And for our country 't is a bliss to die.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line... - Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line... - Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line... - He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book vii, Line... - Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book i, Line... - 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,... - The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line... - Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow,--
For thee,
that ever felt another's woe! -- Alexander Pope (1688... - 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. ...
