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9 Quotes for 'Italy' in the Database.
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For whereso'er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise;
Poetic fields encompass me around,
And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Letter from Italy
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Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary's saying serves for me--
(When fortune's malice
Lost her Calais)--
Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy."
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Men and Women--"De Gustibus"
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Italia! O Italia! thou who hast
The fatal gift of beauty, which became
A funeral dower of present woes and past,
On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame,
And annals graved in characters of flame.
[It., Italia, Italia, O tu cui feo la sorte,
Dono infelice di bellezza, ond' hai
Funesta dote d'infiniti guai
Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porte.]
Author: Vicenzo da Filicaja
Source: Italia, English rendering by Byron, "Childe Harold", canto IV, st. 42
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Beyond the Alps lies Italy.
Author: James William Foley
Source: Graduation Time, expression found in Livy, "Ab Urbe", bk. 21, 30
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Italy is only a geographical expression.
[Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.]
Author: Prince C.W.N.L. Metternich
Source: said to Lord Palmerston
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All Italians are plunderers.
[It., Gli Italiani tutti ladroni.]
Not all but a good part.
[It., Non tutti, ma buona parte.]
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I)
Source: said when in Italy, and the response by a lady who overheard him
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On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Source: Helen
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My soul to-day
Is far away
Sailing the Vesuvian Bay.
Author: Thomas Buchanan Read
Source: Drifting
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Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from
designs by Michel Angelo!
Author: Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
Source: The Innocents Abroad (ch. 27)
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