 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - Venice (Italy) - 1884 - 202 pages
...of the espousals of Venice with the Adriatic, and cast the ring into the sea from the Bucentaur. ' Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was...city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force cxild violate ; And when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse the everlasting sea. And what... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 pages
...were flown, What hardships had it been to wait an hour ? Shame on you, feeble heads to slavery prone ! ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did...West : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birthVenice, the eldest child of Liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced,... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...is the stalk True power doth grow on; and her rights are these. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENE TIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did she hold the gorgeous East in fee; And was the safeguard of the West : the worth Of Yenice did not fall below her blrth — Yenice, the eldest child of Liberty ! She was a maiden city,... | |
 | Edwin Pears - History - 1885 - 462 pages
...difference was rather in form than in reality. If Venice, in the language of Wordsworth, had once held ' the gorgeous East in fee and was the safeguard of the West,' she was so only as the continuator of the work of Constantinople, which, as we shall see, was in a... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1888 - 490 pages
...seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still J EXTINCTION OP THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC, 1SOL ONCE did she hold the gorgeous East in fee ; And was...the safeguard of the West : the worth Of Venice did riot fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1016 pages
...year ; And worship's! at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. 1802. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC ONCE did...the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, lot, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 1152 pages
...year ; And worship's! at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. 1802. "ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC ONCE did...the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of thewest : theworth Of Venice did not fall below her birth. lot, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty.... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - 1891 - 888 pages
...endured the longest among men. A Poet of our 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. Page 225, line 25.] and at once she fell. There was, in my time, another republic, a place of refuge... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1892 - 374 pages
...hardship had it been to wait an hour ? Shame on you, feeble Heads, to slavery prone I : : : — ON THX EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did She...City, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force conld violate ; And, when She took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what... | |
 | 1892 - 522 pages
...not for Pope, Consul, or King, can sound himself to know The destiny of Man, and live in hope. VI. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did...Liberty. . She was a maiden City, bright and free; 5 No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse... | |
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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. 
