"Unshell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mere Rome! Rome!" [Note.—This word Romae, (Rom,) on which the rhetorician plays, is the common Greek term for strength.] "And hence," says Aristides, "I derive the following conclusion: that if any one, decomposing this series of strata, were disposed to unshell, as it were, this existing Rome from its present crowded and towering coacervations, and, thus degrading these aerial Romes, were to plant them on the ground, side by side, in orderly succession, according to all appearance, the whole vacant area of ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey |
