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• But sure the eye of time beholds no name So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 591...
• What 's not devoured by Time's devouring hand? Where 's Troy, and where 's the Maypole in the Strand?
  -- James Bramston (-1744) -- Art of Politic...
• To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• And pines with thirst amidst a sea of waves.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 722...
• Gloomy as night he stands.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 749...
• The first in glory, as the first in place.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 441...
• The rest were vulgar deaths, unknown to fame.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer, Book xi, Line 394...
• Thin airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 48...
• Soft as some song divine thy story flows.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer, Book xi, Line 458...