Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Locksley Hall. Line 184.

Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round,

And gather'd every vice on Christian ground.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 311.

Of which all Europe rings from side to side.

John Milton (1608-1674): Sonnet xxii. To Cyriac Skinner.