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

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The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 684.

And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.[337:1]

The Iliad of Homer. Book i. Line 771.

Thick as autumnal leaves or driving sand.

The Iliad of Homer. Book ii. Line 970.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage,

But wise through time, and narrative with age,

In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice,—

A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.