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Rome Quotes - Page 16

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

"My Early Life: A Roving Commission" by Winston Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

All the contagion of the south light on you, You shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues Plaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen, and one infect another Against the wind a mile!

William Shakespeare (1809). “The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of various commentators, to which are added notes by S. Johnson and G. Steevens, revised and augmented by I. Reed, with a glossarial index”, p.26

It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.

William Gibson (1987). “Burning Chrome”, New York : Ace Books

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.469

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

Sir Walter Scott (1933). “The Letters of Sir Walter Scott ...: 1815-1817”

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.

Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.149, ReadHowYouWant.com