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

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Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday!

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 141.

"While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;

And when Rome falls—the world."[546:2]

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iv. Stanza 145.

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Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou?

Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead?

Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low