 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1892 - 1018 pages
...something profoundly mournful in the poet's description of Venice in the days of her decadence : " Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. And was the safeguard of the West." England is a greater and a nobler Venice, and she " holds the gorgeous East in fee," and is " the safeguard... | |
 | David James Vaughan - 1894 - 284 pages
...her greatness. What more can be said of England now, than could be said of Venice formerly ? ' Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee ; And was...her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty.' If the glory has departed from Christian Venice, why should it not depart from Christian England ?... | |
 | 1896 - 412 pages
...And Ocean bellow from his rocky shore, And neither awful Voice be heard by Thee ! IV. Wordsworth CCLV ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. Once did...below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty. r O 242 Book She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1896 - 680 pages
...thon hast gra» allies; Thy friends are erultations, agonies, And love, and man': uncomraenH: mind. 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,... | |
 | Western Reserve University - 1896 - 566 pages
...disaster, while all the worst qualities, oppression, cruelty and maladministration accelerated it. Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee And was the safe guard of the west; Men are we and most grieved when even the shade Of that which once was great... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 pages
...own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still. 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... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1897 - 258 pages
...all the year ; And worship's! at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC ONCE did...; And was the safeguard of the West : the worth Of Yenice did not fall below her birth, Yenice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 224 pages
...Italian comedies. 6. Europe's bulwark 'gainst the Ottomite. Cp. Wordsworth's sonnet already quoted : " Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West." Shakspere in Othello I. iii. 33, and 233, uses the form 'Ottomite' for the commoner ' Ottoman.' 7.... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 346 pages
... Masson. Wordsworth uses the phrase, ' in fee,' in the same way in the opening verse of his sonnet on the ' Extinction of the Venetian Republic': ' Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee.' P. 121. lapse: fall. P. 121. twinned: as a twin. P. 121. dividual: separate. P. 121. virtue, which... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 350 pages
... Masson. Wordsworth uses the phrase, ' in fee,' in the same way in the opening verse of his sonnet on the ' Extinction of the Venetian Republic ' : ' Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee.' P. 121. lapse: fall. P. 121. twinned > as a twin. P. 121. dividual: separate. P. 121. undeservedly... | |
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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. 
