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218.<br />

between the straps, to protect<br />

the head, and make the helmet<br />

fit close.<br />

"All the circumstances <strong>of</strong> this<br />

action—the night, Rhesus buried<br />

in a pr<strong>of</strong>ound sleep, and<br />

Diomede with the sword in his<br />

hand hanging over the head <strong>of</strong><br />

that prince—furnished <strong>Homer</strong><br />

with the idea <strong>of</strong> this fiction,<br />

which represents Rhesus lying<br />

fast asleep, and, as it were, beholding<br />

his enemy in a dream,<br />

plunging the sword into his<br />

bosom. This image is very natural;<br />

for a man in his condition<br />

awakes no farther than to see<br />

confusedly what environs him,<br />

and to think it not a reality but<br />

a dream."—Pope.

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