Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Displays distinguish'd merit, is a noble

Of Nature's own creating.

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 3.

O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O![358:1]

Sophonisba. Act iii. Sc. 2.

When Britain first, at Heaven's command,

Arose from out the azure main,

This was the charter of her land,

And guardian angels sung the strain:

Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves!