Rome. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Rome


See the wild waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread; The very tombs now vanished, like their dead! Pope.—Moral Essays; to Mr. Addison, Epi. V. Line 1.	1
The silver goose before the shining gate, There flew; and by her cackle saved the state. Dryden’s Virgil.—The Æneid, Book VIII. Line 655.	2
And here a goose in silver, fluttering athwart the gilded galleries, gave warning that the Gauls were just at hand. Buckley’s Virgil.—The Æneid, Book VIII. Page 289.	3
Far as the sickening eye can sweep around, ’Tis now one desert, desolate and grey. Thomson.—Liberty, Part I.	4
Thin wave the gifts Of yellow Ceres. Thomson.—Liberty, Part I.	5
Inglorious droops the laurel, dead to song, And long a stranger to the hero’s brow. Thomson.—Liberty, Part I.	6
Breathing a kind oblivion o’er their woes. Thomson.—Liberty, Part I.	7
An almost total desolation sits, A dreary stillness, saddening o’er the coast. Thomson.—Liberty, Part I.	8
To ruffle in the commonwealth of Rome. Shakespeare.—Titus Andronicus, Act I. Scene 2. (Saturninus to Titus.)	9
Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. (Cassius to Brutus.)	10