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

by Unknown

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 49.

Let these describe the undescribable.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 53.

The starry Galileo with his woes.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 54.

Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar,

Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 57.

The poetry of speech.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 58.