| Author |
Quotes |
| Edward Young | Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation. |
| Henry Kirke White | Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude. |
| Horace Walpole | The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, in time a Vergil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra. |
| John Webster | I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. |
| Mrs Anna Letitia Barbauld | And when 'midst fallen London they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humble pride the lesson just By Time's slow finger written in the dust. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | She may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. |
| Victor Hugo | For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. |
| Vergil | What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. |
| Homer | The ruins of himself! now worn away With age, yet still majestic in decay. |
| John Milton | For such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. |
| Joseph Addison | Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Red ruin and the breaking-up of all. |
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