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

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I 've stood upon Achilles' tomb,

And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome.

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 101.

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Oh "darkly, deeply, beautifully blue!"[559:1]

As some one somewhere sings about the sky.

Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 110.

There 's not a sea the passenger e'er pukes in,

Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 5.