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

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The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss,

And boil in endless torture.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 69.

Then farewell Horace, whom I hated so,—

Not for thy faults, but mine.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 77.

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O Rome! my country! city of the soul!

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 78.

The Niobe of nations! there she stands.