Quote#World
Who knows whether, when a comet shall approach this globe to destroy…
Quote byLord Byron · 1788–1824
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: As quoted in Conversations of Lord Byron with Thomas Medwin (1832)..
English (original)
Who knows whether, when a comet shall approach this globe to destroy it, as it often has been and will be destroyed, men will not tear rocks from their foundations by means of steam, and hurl mountains, as the giants are said to have done, against the flaming mass?—and then we shall have traditions of Titans again, and of wars with Heaven.
— Lord Byron
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