John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788–1824) (continued) |
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O Rome! my country! city of the soul! |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 78. |
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The Niobe of nations! there she stands. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 79. |
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Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 98. |
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Heaven gives its favourites—early death. 1 |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 102. |
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History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 108. |
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Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 109. |
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Tully was not so eloquent as thou, Thou nameless column with the buried base. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 110. |
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Egeria! sweet creation of some heart Which found no mortal resting-place so fair As thine ideal breast. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 115. |
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The nympholepsy of some fond despair. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 115. |
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Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied forth. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 115. |
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Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 120. |
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I see before me the gladiator lie. |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 140. |
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There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher’d to make a Roman holiday! |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 141. |
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“While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls—the world.” 2 |
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 145. |
Note 1. See Wordsworth, Quotation 136. [back] |
Note 2. Literally the exclamation of the pilgrims in the eighth century. [back] |