The most famous lines from Pan Tadeusz
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Lithuania! My homeland! You are like health; only he who has lost you knows how much you must be prized. · Holy Virgin, who guards bright Częstochowa and shines in the Gate of Dawn! · For Paris prides itself on changing fashions, and whatever the French invent, the Poles will love.. (Updated Jan 27, 2024.)
From the Invocation 'Lithuania! My homeland!' to Jankiel's concert and the last polonaise: lines from Adam Mickiewicz's epic everyone knows, with book and line number.
Automatically translated (original in Polski). See the original
Top 14
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Lithuania! My homeland! You are like health; only he who has lost you knows how much you must be prized.
Book I, Invocation, lines 1–3: the poem's opening.
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Holy Virgin, who guards bright Częstochowa and shines in the Gate of Dawn!
Book I, Invocation, lines 5–6.
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For Paris prides itself on changing fashions, and whatever the French invent, the Poles will love.
Book I, lines 479–480.
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Courtesy is neither an easy nor a small science.
Book I, line 361.
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For the heart is no servant, knows no masters, and cannot be put in chains by force.
Book III, lines 490–491.
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There's no agreement, my good sir.
Book II, line 256.
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To silence Poland is to Germanise Poland.
Book V, line 436.
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Never two of you shoot at the same game.
Book V, line 485.
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I am Jacek Soplica…
Book X, line 460: Father Robak's confession.
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Where have I not been, what have I not suffered!
Book X, line 820.
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O spring! Whoever saw you then in our land, memorable spring of war, spring of plenty!
Book XI, lines 117–118: the spring of 1812.
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There were many dulcimer players, but none dared to play next to Jankiel.
Book XII, lines 641–642: Jankiel's concert.
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Ah, perhaps he's the last! Look, look, young ones, perhaps the last to lead the polonaise like this!
Book XII, lines 798–799: the Chamberlain leads the polonaise.
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The land of childhood! It will always remain holy and pure, like first love.
Epilogue, lines 67–68.
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