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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. - Joseph Addison, Letter from Italy 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." - Robert Browning, Men and Women--"De Gustibus" Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes. - Robert Burton Fair Italy! Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree, Even in thy desert, what is like to thee? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes fertility; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defac'd. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) 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. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) 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.] - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italia, English rendering by Byron, "Childe Harold", canto IV, st. 42 Beyond the Alps lies Italy. - James William Foley, Graduation Time, expression found in Livy, "Ab Urbe", bk. 21, 30 Italy is only a geographical expression. [Fr., L'Italie est un nom geographique.] - Prince Clemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Metternich, said to Lord Palmerston I am desperately Italian. I believe in the function of Latinity. - Benito Mussolini All Italians are plunderers. [It., Gli Italiani tutti ladroni.] Not all but a good part. [It., Non tutti, ma buona parte.] - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I), said when in Italy, and the response by a lady who overheard him 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. - Edgar Allan Poe, Helen My soul to-day Is far away Sailing the Vesuvian Bay. - Thomas Buchanan Read, Drifting Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michel Angelo! - Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), The Innocents Abroad (ch. 27)
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