John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
3647 Alexander Pope 1688-1744 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 3647 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Iliad of Homer. Book iii. Line 199. |