 | 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... | |
 | 1892 - 522 pages
...man frames His business as he likes. Far other show My youth here witnessed, in a prouder time; 10 The senselessness of joy was then sublime! Happy is...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 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 - Great Britain - 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 ?... | |
 | English poetry - 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 - English poetry - 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... | |
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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. 
