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• A mass enormous! which in modern days No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xx, Line 337...
• Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxii, Line 271...
• A wealthy priest, but rich without a fault.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book v, Line 16...
• Whose little body lodg'd a mighty mind.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book v, Line 999...
• I live an idle burden to the ground.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xviii, Line 134...
• Two friends, two bodies with one soul inspir'd.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xvi, Line 267...
• Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book v, Line 572...
• A green old age, That proves the hero born in better days.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xxiii, Line 929...
• 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....