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. She was a Maiden City, bright and free... The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 132by William Wordsworth - 1827Full view - About this book
| 1808 - 532 pages
...was the fafeguard of the Wdf. : the worth Of Venice did not fall bel.>w her birth, Venice, the eWeft child of liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free . No guile feduced, no force could violate . And when- (lie trok unto herfelf a mate She muft efpoufe the cverlalling... | |
| Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 510 pages
...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 - 582 pages
...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 - 538 pages
...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 - 240 pages
...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 - 932 pages
...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 - 622 pages
...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 - 622 pages
...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 - 384 pages
...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... | |
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