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

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On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic.

Thou has left behind

Powers that will work for thee,—air, earth, and skies!

There 's not a breathing of the common wind

That will forget thee; thou hast great allies;

Thy friends are exultations, agonies,

And love, and man's unconquerable mind.[471:1]

To Toussaint L' Ouverture.

One that would peep and botanize

Upon his mother's grave.