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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. Horace Walpole—Letter to Horace Mann. Nov. 24, 1774. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Barbauld)

I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history. John Webster—The Duchess of Malfi. Act V. Sc. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Where now is Britain? Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks where stood her capitals, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude. Henry Ktrke White—Time. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Barbauld) Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare o'er creation. Young—Night Thoughts. Night LX. L. 167. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Burns}} under {{sc|Daisy}}) | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores. Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. Lucan—Pharsalia. I. 469. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor. Some report elsewhere whatever is told them ; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. Ovid—Metamorphoses. XII. 57. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt. Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. Plautus—Perm. III. 1. 23. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The flying rumours gather'd as they roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it added something new. And all who heard it made enlargements too. | author = Pope | work = Temple of Fame. L. 468. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. Scott—Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto H. St 22. I will be gone: That pitiful rumour may report my flight, To consolate thine ear. AWs WcU That Ends Well. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 129. n Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act I. Induction. L. 15. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the fear'd. Henry IV. Pt. II. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 97. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. Swift—Tr. of Ovid. Examiner, No. 15. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = What some invent the rest enlarge. Swift—Journal of a Modern Lady. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet. Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. Syrus—Maxims. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Haud semper erret fama; aliquando et elegit. Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. Tacitus—Agricola. IX. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. Terence—Phormio. Act IV. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. I Timothy. V. 13. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit. Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumse Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu, Tot linguae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures. Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;—the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. * * * A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. Vergil—Æneid. IV. 173. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem. The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. Vergil—/Eneid. VIII. 554. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 688 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Lingua; centum sunt, oraque centum Ferrea vox. It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. Vergil—Georgics. II. 44. (Adapted.)