Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Thoughts on Various Subjects.

Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring

Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 1.

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The distant Trojans never injur'd me.

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 200.

Words sweet as honey from his lips distill'd.

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 332.

Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod,—