 | Literature, Modern - 1806 - 550 pages
...weary statesman for repose hath fled From halls of council to his negro's shed, Where blest he woes some black Aspasia's grace, And dreams of freedom...now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thce o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose-Creek once... | |
 | 1806 - 572 pages
...meet with some vigorous but too often unpolished lin«, which denote an alteration of sentiment: • In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome,* Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Cseek once is Tiber now !f—... | |
 | 1806 - 512 pages
...fhed, Where bleft he wooa fome black Afpafia's grace, And dreams of freedom in his Have's embrace 1 • In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where ;iere tribunes rule, where dufky Davi bow, id what was Goofe<Creek once, is Tiber now !... | |
 | David Bailie Warden - District of Columbia - 1816 - 230 pages
...in the imagination of the poet. The following poetical description is from the pen of Moor : — f " In fancy now beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was , Goose- Creek once, is Tiber now. .... | |
 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - Great Britain - 1818 - 480 pages
...sweet segar ; The weary statesman* for repose hath fled From halls of council to his negro's shed, Where, blest, he woos some black Aspasia's grace,...twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber now. This fam'd... | |
 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - 1818 - 482 pages
...sweet segar; The weary statesman * for repose hath fled From halls of council to his negro's shed, Where, blest, he woos some black Aspasia's grace,...now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead tb.ee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Creek once... | |
 | Henry Bradshaw Fearon - United States - 1818 - 482 pages
...sweet segar ; The weary statesman* for repose hath fled From halls of council to his negro's shed, Where, blest, he woos some black Aspasia's grace, And dreams of freedom in Ms slave's embrace. In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...straggling city itself. He makes some amends, however, by subjoining the following lines from Moore: — ' In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber, now. This... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...straggling city itself. He makes some amends, however, by subjoining the following lines from Moore : — ' In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose Creek once is Tiber now. This fam'cl... | |
 | William Bingley - Canada - 1821 - 374 pages
...that of " Tiber," has been happily exposed by the English poet Moore. Speaking of this city, he says, In fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this modern Rome, Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose-creek once is Tiber now. This fam'd... | |
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The weary statesman for repose hath fled From halls of council to his negro's shed, Where blest he woos some black Aspasia's grace. And dreams of freedom in his slave's embrace... 
