William Pitt the Younger Quote

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all
That shared its shelter perish in its fall.


The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, No. xxxvi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.

Prostrate the beauteous ruin lies; and all That shared its shelter perish in its fall.