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«O' the mass of arms, the brilliant leadership, the courage and magnitude of the ancient armies of Greece, combined to conquer the city of Troy - all that, and ten years of perseverance»
Author: Hipponax the Satirist | About: Conquest, Courage, Leadership, Perseverance | Keywords: armies, brilliant, combined, Greece, The City, Troy
«It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli (Novelist, Prime Minister) | Keywords: appeals, Appeal To Reason, besieged, crusade, crusades, crusading, French Revolution, instituted, instituting, irresistible, monastic, orders, Saracen, The Crusades, the French, The French Revolution, The Passions, Troy
«MEANDER, n. To proceed sinuously and aimlessly. The word is the ancient name of a river about one hundred and fifty miles south of Troy, which turned and twisted in the effort to get out of hearing when the Greeks and Trojans boasted of their prowess.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: aimlessly, Ancient Greek, ancient Greeks, boasted, Greeks, Greek word, meander, meandering, meanders, one hundred, one hundred fifty, prowess, the Greeks, Trojan, Trojans, Troy, twisted
«And, like another Helen, fired another Troy.»
Author: John Dryden (Critic, Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: fired, Helen of Troy, Troy
«Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy / In sceptred pall come sweeping by, / Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, / Or the tale of Troy divine.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: gorgeous, pall, palls, sceptred, Thebes, Troy
«I've stood upon Achilles' tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: Achilles, doubted, Rome, tomb, Troy
«Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to Hoyle»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: homer, Hoyle, owes, Troy, whist
«Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: Hector, hectoring, Troy, valor
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