Italian National Ice

Famous quotes containing the words italian, national and/or ice:

    “Their martyred blood and ashes sow
    O’er all the Italian fields where still doth sway
    The triple tyrant; that from these may grow
    A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way,
    Early may fly the Babylonian woe.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)

    “Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.”
    —William Cobbett (1762–1835)

    “‘Line in nature is not found;
    Unit and universe are round;
    In vain produced, all rays return;
    Evil will bless, and ice will burn.’
    As Uriel spoke with piercing eye,
    A shudder ran around the sky;”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)