 | Amédée Pichot - 1825 - Страниц: 510
...the past. I select the following from among the Sonnets on Liberty, and the Sonnets to Buonaparte. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. '• Once...fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of hberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate; And when... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1825 - Страниц: 582
...in the eastern seas ; and a vast and increasing com* inerce swelled her enormous wealth. She held ' the gorgeous east in fee, And was the safeguard of the west.' As the Greek empire crumbled into dust before the power of the sultans, Venice became the maritime... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1832 - Страниц: 538
...Apulia, Calabria, and hpreafterof Sicily, by the grace of God and Saint Peter." . THE BRIDES OF VENICE. Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was...West : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her hirth, — Venice, the eldest child of Liberty ! She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile... | |
 | 1833 - Страниц: 240
...mount ; this is the stalk True Power doth grow on ; and her rights are these. 196 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did...She was a Maiden City, bright and free ; No guile seduc'd, no force could violate ; And, when She took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting... | |
 | 1835 - Страниц: 932
...the greater part of his other poems, as Milton's sonnets are superior to his. We give the following " On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic :" —...Venice, the eldest child of Liberty. She was a maiden cily, bright ana free ; No guile seduced, no forre could violate; And when she look unto herself a... | |
 | George William D. Evans - 1835 - Страниц: 622
...her possessions in the eastern seas; and a vast and increasing commerce swelled her enormous wealth. She hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. VOL. III. K As the Greek empire crumbled into dust before the power of the sultans, Venice became the... | |
 | George William David Evans - 1835 - Страниц: 622
...possessions in the eastern seas; and a vast and increasing commerce swelled her enormous wealth. She held the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. VOL. III. F As the Greek empire crumbled into dust before the power of the sultans, Venice became the... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1842 - Страниц: 384
...endured the lonijest amony men. A Poet of onr own Country, Mr. Wordsworth, has written a noble sonnet on the extinction of the Venetian Republic. •• Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee," &c. P. M, 1. 17. Want led to Enterprise ; " II fallut subsister ; ils tirerent leur subsistence tie... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - Страниц: 856
...employment and procure him fame and riches." CHAPTER II. THE CITY O? THE SEA.—THE RIVALS. Once she did hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard...below her birth. Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty ! WORDSWORTH. MEANWHILE, approaching the termination of its voyage, the boat passed that village of... | |
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ON THE EXTINcTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIc. ONcE did She hold the gorgeous East in fee ; And was the safeguard of the West : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. 
