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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. "
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Страница 41
1808
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1899 - 332 страници
...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...

Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, Том 16

Royal Commonwealth Society - 1885 - 640 страници
...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...

Palgrave's Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - 1901 - 286 страници
...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...

A Commentary on Tennyson's In Memoriam

Andrew Cecil Bradley - 1901 - 252 страници
...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)....

In Memoriam

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1901 - 312 страници
.....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...

Real Things in Nature: A Reading Book of Science for American Boys and Girls

Edward Singleton Holden - 1903 - 494 страници
...feet in diameter. BOATS. from thence were sent to the other countries of Europe. "Long time she held the gorgeous East in fee and was the safeguard of the West." FIG. 382. The palace of the Doges (rulers of Venice) built in the fourteenth century. The splendid...

Forms of English Poetry

Charles Frederick Johnson - 1904 - 380 страници
...diction all are simple and transparent, and some of the phrases are of admirable force and beauty. VENICE Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, "" And...and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate P And when she took unto herself a mate *" She must espouse the Everlasting Sea. u And what if she...

British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Selections from Wordsworth ...

Curtis Hidden Page - 1904 - 942 страници
...And worship's! at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. !»>?. 1807: ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC ONCE did...safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall I>elow her birtli, Venice, tlie eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free ; No...

On the Outskirts of Empire in Asia

Lawrence John Lumley Dundas Marquis of Zetland - 1904 - 562 страници
...the city on the Bosphorus, of which with far more reason than of Venice might it be said that — " Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West " — the views presented by the frost - bound lands of Central Europe and the rugged mountains of the Turkish...

Proceedings of the ... Annual Convocation, Брой 42

University of the State of New York - 1904 - 238 страници
...greater than Rome when from it the Caesars gave laws urbi et orbi; greater than Venice when she held the gorgeous East in fee, and was the safeguard of the West; greater threefold than this whole nation when it achieved its independence; greater than half the nations...




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