The Day Shall Come, That Great Avenging Day Which Troy's Proud Glories In The Dust Shall Lay, When Priam's Powers And Priam's Self Shall Fall, And One Prodigious Ruin Swallow All.

Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xv, Line 157...
With all its beauteous honours on its head.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 557...
Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold: Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of a day.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book ix, Line 524...
All crowd, who foremost shall be damn'd to fame.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dunciad, Book iii, Line 158...
The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book vi, Line 467...
To hide their ignominious heads in Troy.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xiv, Line 170...
How lov'd, how honour'd once avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom bego
A heap of dust alone remains of thee: 'T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be!...
Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 451...
First in the fight and every graceful deed.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book iv, Line 295...