...research hath been, that these are walls— [falls. Behold the Imperial Mount ! 'tis thus the mighty There is the moral of all human tales ; * 'Tis but...Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, rice, corruption — barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page,...

...which Rome succumbed, in these words from Childc Harold : " There is the moral of all human talcs ; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past : First freedom,...fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism at last" from a higher point of view, the downfall of Borne was a divine judgment upon the old essentially heathen...

...unchecked majority, to go surely and speedily the way of the empires and the republics of the past. This is the moral of all human tales, "Tis but the same...vice, corruption, barbarism at last, And history, of all its volumes vast, Hath but one page. Certainly we must agree that the Supreme Court of the United...

...Byron, the most Augustan of nineteenth-century poets, put it neatly, as an established maxim or law: Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom,...that fails Wealth, vice, corruption; - barbarism at last.12 It would be too much to claim that the classical 'cycle of corruption' was extinct in nineteenth-century...

...effort to break free of language altogether in order to achieve an unmediated set of responses: 108 There is the moral of all human tales; Tis but the...— 'tis better written here, Where gorgeous Tyranny had thus amass'd All treasures, all delights, that eye or ear, Heart, soul could seek, tongue ask —...

...liberating, who provided American liberalism its finest moment. From the Revolution to the Constitution There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the...fails, Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last. LORD BYRON, 1816 David Hume and the "Seamy Side of Human Affairs" During the Civil War Lincoln called...

...example. The fourth canto of Childe Harold provides an appropriate and traditional gloss: -108There is the moral of all human tales; 'Tis but the same...History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page . . . Byron supported his moralisation with scholarly authority, Hobhouse's note extracts a long passage...

...history of the Mediterranean civilizations as a series of cycles that always followed the same course: First freedom, and then glory, when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, barbarism at last. And Shelley, meditating upon the Platonic cycle, shuddered before the awful prospect of wars and decadence...

...maturity, decay, and death. The finest thumbnail sketch of this position was penned by Lord Byron: There is the moral of all human tales; Tis but the...History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page. For the sake of argument, let's assume that large cyclical forces decide the forms of creativity and...

...the Imperial Mount! 'tis thus the mighty falls. СУШ. There is the moral of all human tales ; 'T is bnt one page,— 'tis better written here Where gorgeous Tyranny hath thus amass'd All treasures, all...