 Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall...  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - Page 208by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 329 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...pursues decay, Still drops some joy from withering life awny. ./'Vi" -i. Vanity of Human M , •' . Alas '. the lofty city '. and alas '. The trebly hundred...Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page! — but these (hall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay. Byron DECCAN, or the Country of the South, a.-, extensive... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from withering life away. Johnton. Vanity of Human Withet. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away t Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay. And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall be Her... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tally's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but theie shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay. Alas, for earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she hore when Rome was free ! And thou, dread statr.et! yet existent in... | |
 | James Bell - Geography - 1832 - 622 pages
...murmur of their languages, ere long to be lost in utter and eternal silence, echoes feebly upon the ear. Alas the lofty city ! and alas The trebly hundred...— decay. Alas, for earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye ehe bore when Rome was free ! Rome stood originally on seven hills ; three... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...of ruin rises near. ,. LXXXII. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! 4> and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass,...— decay. Alas, for earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free I LXXXIII. Oh thou, whose chariot roll'd on... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXH. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! 4" and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tnlly's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1833 - 574 pages
...inspiration, struck out some of the grandest conceptions that poet or philosopher has ever uttered. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside decay. There is the moral of all human tales; 'T is but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...Our hands, and cry " Eureka !" it is clear — When but some false mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXII. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was LXXXIJI. Oh thou, whose chariot roll'd on Fortune's wheel, Triumphant Sylla ! Thou, who didst subdue... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...Gibbon and the modern writers. LXXX1I. Alas! the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred triumphs! (3) and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...— decay. Alas, for Earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free! LXXXIII. Oh thou, whose chariot roll'd on Fortune's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 352 pages
...elear — When hut some false mirage of ruin rises near. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trehly hundred triumphs ' ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in hearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — hut these... | |
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