Lisbon (q.v.)
“What beauties doth Lisboʹa first unfold.”
Byron: Childe Harold, l. 16.
“And thou, famed Lisʹboa, whose embattled wall
Rose by the hand that wrought proud Ilion’s fall.”
Mickle: Lusiad.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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