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

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'T is man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 427.

The young Astyanax, the hope of Troy.

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 467.

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see

My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee.

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 544.

Andromache! my soul's far better part.

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 624.

He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.