 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.  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - 第41页1808全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1892 - 1018 页
...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 - 1894 - 284 页
...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 ?... | |
 | 1896 - 412 页
...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 - 1896 - 680 页
...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 页
...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 页
...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 - 1897 - 258 页
...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 - 1899 - 224 页
...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 - 1899 - 346 页
...— 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1899 - 350 页
...— 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... | |
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