John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued) |
| 3658 |
| Whose little body lodg’d a mighty mind. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book v. Line 999. |
| 3659 |
| He held his seat,—a friend to human race. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 18. |
| 3660 |
| Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,— Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; 1 Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 181. |
| 3661 |
| Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 330. |
| 3662 |
| If yet not lost to all the sense of shame. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 350. |
| 3663 |
| ’T is man’s to fight, but Heaven’s to give success. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 427. |
| 3664 |
| The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 467. |
| 3665 |
| Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 544. |
| 3666 |
| Andromache! my soul’s far better part. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 624. |
| 3667 |
| He from whose lips divine persuasion flows. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 143. |
| 3668 |
| Not hate, but glory, made these chiefs contend; And each brave foe was in his soul a friend. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 364. |
| 3669 |
| I war not with the dead. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book vii. Line 485. |
| 3670 |
| Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book viii. Line 1. |
| 3671 |
| As full-blown poppies, overcharg’d with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,— So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, deprest Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast. |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book viii. Line 371. |
| 3672 |
| Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. 2 |
| The Iliad of Homer. Book ix. Line 412. |
| Note 1. As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow.—Ecclesiasticus xiv. 18. [back] |
| Note 2. The same line, with “soul” for “heart,” occurs in the translation of the Odyssey, book xiv. line 181. [back] |