"Ilion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... guessed on earth had not better have remained buried in the brain which had found the key to them, and whether the deepest thinkers—those whose hand has been boldest in drawing aside the veil, and their eye keenest in fathoming the mysteries beyond it—had not better, like the prophetess of Ilion, have kept for heaven, and heaven only, secrets and mysteries which human tongue cannot truly ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Callicrates? Our dear Thais knew Paris, Menelaus, and the Achaians who fought before Ilion! Was the Trojan horse ...
— Thais • Anatole France
... beforn, Of Tholouse lord, from lands near Piraene Hill By Garound streams and salt sea billows worn, Four thousand foot he brought, well armed, and skill Had they all pains and travels to have borne, Stout men of arms and with their guide of power Like Troy's old town defenced with Ilion's tower. ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... ore; nor Alexander's name Know, nor fair Helen's shame; Or in his tent how Peleus' wrathful son Looks toward the sea, nor heeds The towers of still-unconquer'd Ilion. ...
— The Visions of England - Lyrics on leading men and events in English History • Francis T. Palgrave
... child I lay reclined, I took delight in this locality! Here stood the infant Ilion of the mind, And here the Grecian ships did ...
— The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Alfred Lord Tennyson
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