Quote#Truth
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
Quote byWilliam Pitt the Younger · 1759–1806
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, No. xxxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
English (original)
Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.
— William Pitt the Younger
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