A mass enormous! which in modern days

No two of earth's degenerate sons could raise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 337.

A people is but the attempt of many

To rise to the completer life of one;

And those who live as models for the mass

Are singly of more value than they all.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): Luria. Act v.

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host,

Is in the common mass of matter lost.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book iv. Line 397.

That jewell'd mass of millinery,

That oil'd and curl'd Assyrian Bull.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Maud. Part i. vi. Stanza 6.

The baby figure of the giant mass

Of things to come.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3.