 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 pages
...true of all the Italian cities. But nowhere is the contrast so striking and impressive as in Venice. " Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was...Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the oldest child of Liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 pages
...true of all the Italian cities. But nowhere is the contrast so striking and impressive as in Venice. " Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was...Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the oldest child of Liberty. She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could... | |
 | Ecclesiological society - 1867 - 412 pages
...we would rather cite the noble tribute in the lines of Wordsworth : " Once did she hold the gorgeoas East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West ; the...below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty !" Having enjoyed my first view of S. Mark's piazza in the soft clearness of an autumnal moonlight,... | |
 | 1867 - 404 pages
...Adriatic; and we would rather cite the noble tribute in the lines of Wordsworth : " Once did she bold the gorgeous East in fee. And was the safeguard of the West ; the north Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty !" Having enjoyed... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...winding-sheet ; 30 And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. Thomas Campbell. CCIX ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. Once did...of 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... | |
 | Charles Isidore Hemans - 1869 - 642 pages
...would rather cite the lines of Wordsworth : « Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was tin, safeguard of the West ; the worth Of Venice did not...below her birth , Venice , the eldest child of Liberty 1 » Venice had the vocation of reconciling the Eastern with the Western genius , and introducing into... | |
 | Charles Isidore Hemans - 1869 - 652 pages
...such a light around that Queen of the Adriatic ; and we would rather cite the lines of Wordsworth : « Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West ; the worIh Of Venice did not fall below licr birth , Venice , the eldest child of Liberty I » Venice had... | |
 | 1870 - 462 pages
...winding-sheet; 30 And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre. Thomas Campbell. CCXIII ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. Once did...of 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 622 pages
...to know The destiny of man, and live in hope. VL ON THE EXTINCTIOH OF THE VENETIAN REPr/ELIO. ONOE did she hold the gorgeous East in fee ; And was the...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,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1871 - 630 pages
...himself to know The destiny of Man, and live in hope. '•'l ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REÍ'UBUC. ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice d;d not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and... | |
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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. 
