 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1881 - 112 pages
...And as I mounted up the hill 30 The music in my heart I bore Long after it was heard no more. (1802.) ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did...below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty. ' 5 She was a maiden city bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And when she... | |
 | george bell - 1881 - 896 pages
...never be said of our native land, in the mournful language of Wordsworth's epitaph on Venice, — " Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West ;" but that, for ages to come, England may still retain these proud titles to the admiration and the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1882 - 422 pages
...Listen ! (Returning to 1807.) ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. Comp. August, 1802. Pub. 1807. ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was...of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free ; Xo guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a mate, She must espouse... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 520 pages
...sound himself to know The destiny of Man, and live in hope. drest 187 ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENRTIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee...: 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1882 - 434 pages
...on the beach near Calais, " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free," . 1807 1802, August. Sonnet, On the extinction of the Venetian Republic, " Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee," ..... 1807 1 802, August. Sonnet, The King of Sweden, " The voice of song from distant lands shall... | |
 | 1842 - 780 pages
...that once celebrated republic just at the commencement of eveuiug. At that Venice who lately held " The gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West." History has no parallel to that mysterious, silent, gloomy, inexorable tyranny she once practised,... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1882 - 642 pages
...live m hope. ,v , i87 ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE vENRTIAN ERPUELIC. ONCE did She hold the gorgeous cast , While the whole world seems adverse i0 desert. And, oh Yentce did not fall helow her hirth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liherty. She was a maiden City, hright... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1885 - 344 pages
...were flown, What hardships had it been to wait an hour ? Shame on you, feeble heads to slavery prone ! 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,... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...is the stalk True power doth grow on; and her rights are these. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENE TIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did she hold the gorgeous East in fee; And was the safeguard of the West : the worth Of Yenice did not fall below her blrth — Yenice, the eldest child of Liberty ! She was a maiden city,... | |
 | Edwin Pears - History - 1885 - 462 pages
...difference was rather in form than in reality. If Venice, in the language of Wordsworth, had once held ' the gorgeous East in fee and was the safeguard of the West,' she was so only as the continuator of the work of Constantinople, which, as we shall see, was in a... | |
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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. 
