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] - 41 ページ1808全文表示 - この書籍について
| Hugh Hood - 1990 - 268 ページ
...Wordsworthian in inspiration and textual source. The green linnet. He wanted very much to speak with her. "A maiden city bright and free, no guile seduced, no force could violate." He couldn't imagine himself as the everlasting sea, however, and thought that such an espousal might... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 ページ
...EnRP; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; WGRP On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 90 ed a Lass 3 To maidens' vows and swearing Henceforth no credit give. You may g (1. 1—2) 91 And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. (1. 7—8)... | |
| Oscar Wilde - 1998 - 244 ページ
...1. 31. gorgeous East. Unlikely: West? Probably Wilde was misled by his half memory of Wordsworth's 'On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic': 'Once...gorgeous east in fee, | And was the safeguard of the west1. 1. 33. One. In Keats's 'The Fall of Hyperion', which Wilde is in a way replying to, the guide... | |
| Kathryn Hinds - 2002 - 86 ページ
...this city of dreams, they indulged themselves as they could never dream of doing at home. Once she did hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard...below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. — from "On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic," by William Wordsworth (1802) Atists and writers... | |
| Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - 1999 - 268 ページ
...tone in his well-known sonnet, "On The Extinction Of The Venetian Republic" (1802, published 1807): Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was...safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fell below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free;... | |
| 1918 - 868 ページ
...Seville (70) fern. Seville has learned ...; — ... She has seen ... Pr. 1143, 20. 19. Venice (71) fern. Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty! / She was a maiden City, bright and free; / And, when she took unto herself a Mate, / She must espouse the everlasting Sea. X, 16, 5. In der... | |
| David Rosand - 2001 - 224 ページ
...lamented the fall of the Republic — Wordsworth "On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic" (1807): Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could... | |
| Asiatic Society of Bombay - 1924 - 818 ページ
...actors have been the Portuguese ? Time was when Portugal, a ruler of the water and their powers, ' held the gorgeous East in fee and was the safeguard of the West ' ; to-day she is but a ' shade of what once was great.' but were all her ' proud historic deeds forgot,'... | |
| Simon Bainbridge - 2003 - 280 ページ
...threatened by Napoleonic France and a developing trading power prone to the dangers of luxury and decline: Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee; And was...safeguard of the West: the worth Of Venice did not tall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a Maiden Ciiy, bright and free;... | |
| Margaret Doody - 2007 - 386 ページ
...dedicated to Saint Mark as a most irreligious if exuberant sign ot triumph. The Engineering of Color Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was...safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not hill below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and tree .... | |
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