 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 pages
...own sweet will : Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying still. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did...of 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... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Sonnets, English - 1897 - 258 pages
...all the year ; And worship's! at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC ONCE did...; 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1899 - 332 pages
...worn by Venetians." — SKEAT. 1. 123. Europe's bulwark, etc. Cf. Wordsworth, Sonnet, supra : — " Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West." Ottomite. Ottoman. 1. 124. Candia. In Crete. The Venetians defended it against the Turks for twenty-four... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1899 - 350 pages
...— Masson. Wordsworth uses the phrase, ' in fee,' in the same way in the opening verse of his sonnet on the ' Extinction of the Venetian Republic ' : ' Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee.' P. 121. lapse: fall. P. 121. twinned > as a twin. P. 121. dividual: separate. P. 121. undeservedly... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 224 pages
...Italian comedies. 6. Europe's bulwark 'gainst the Ottomite. Cp. Wordsworth's sonnet already quoted : " Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West." Shakspere in Othello I. iii. 33, and 233, uses the form 'Ottomite' for the commoner ' Ottoman.' 7.... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1899 - 346 pages
...— Masson. Wordsworth uses the phrase, ' in fee,' in the same way in the opening verse of his sonnet on the ' Extinction of the Venetian Republic': ' Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee.' P. 121. lapse: fall. P. 121. twinned: as a twin. P. 121. dividual: separate. P. 121. virtue, which... | |
 | Royal Commonwealth Society - Colonies - 1885 - 640 pages
...all, And Freedom triumphs o'er her grave." He would rather lament with another poet — " Once she did hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West." I look forward to no such fate for Great Britain. I trust she may remain as great in the future as... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1901 - 286 pages
...bellow from his rocky shore, And neither awful Voice be heard by Thee ! W. Wordsworth. XLVIII. CCLV. ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. Once did...of 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... | |
 | Andrew Cecil Bradley - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 252 pages
...brothers, refers back to the last line of IX. "4. ' hold in fee ' : possess ; cf. Wordsworth's Sonnet On the extinction of the Venetian Republic, ' Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee.' ' the costliest love ' : and much more mine ; not, of course, ' even a wife's affection ' (Gatty).... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1901 - 312 pages
.....in fee; that is 'have as a possession.' Compare Wordsworth's use of the expression in the sonnet on the Venetian Republic : 'Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee.' Lands held 'in fee' were held on the condition of homage, fealty, and military service. It was the... | |
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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. 
