| 1. | Calliope is the epic muse -- "sister" to the other eight. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 2. | Our national epic has yet to be written, Dr Sigerson says. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | And he stared at Marius intently with his epic effrontery. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | owe the greater part of their fame to the later epic or eve. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 5. | familiar to the old epic poets, both the distinguishing attribute. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 6. | enumeration of the forces engaged, a common practice in epic poem. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 7. | But the epic is great enough and simple enough to speak for itself. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 8. | Of the history of the great epic we have some interesting glimpses. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 9. | The early epic was largely occupied with the exploits and suffering. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 10. | Ended for aye the epics of Asia's, Europe's helmeted warriors, ende. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | To see it in concrete form, we should read in succession _Beowulf_ and _Paradise Lost_, the two great epics which show the root and the flower of our literary development. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 12. | To make the poem of the human conscience, were it only with reference to a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |