Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate, When exile wore his blooming years away, To sorrow's long soliloquies a prey, When reason, justice, vainly urged his cause, For this he roused her sanguinary laws ; Glad to return, though Hope could grant no... Poems - Página 16por Samuel Rogers - 1822 - 319 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 824 páginas
...reason, justice, vainly urged his cause, For this he roused her sanguinary laws ; Glad to return, though hope could grant no more, And chains and torture hailed...Tiber awes, and Avon melts the heart. Aerial forms in Temple's classic vale Glance through the gloom and whisper In the gale ; In wild Vaucmse with love... | |
| Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 páginas
...ring When the heart danced and life was in its spring. Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire. . . . And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes, and Avon melts the heart. . . . 'Twas ever thus. As now at Virgil's tomb We bless the shade and bid the verdure bloom, So Tully... | |
| Thomas Turner Tate - 1885 - 460 páginas
...connection with geography. Local associations give vividness and power to the remembrance of events. " And hence the charm historic scenes impart; Hence Tiber awes, and Avon melts the heart." A man who has looked upon the field of Bannockburn, where the devoted band of Scottish patriots withstood... | |
| Thomas Tate - 1885 - 430 páginas
...with geography. Local associations give vividness and power to the remembrance of events. " And bence the charm historic scenes impart; Hence Tiber awes, and Avon melts the heart." A man who has looked upon the field of Bannockburn, where the devoted band of Scottish patriots withstood... | |
| Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 páginas
...patriot's sigh; This makes him wish to live, and dare to die. For this voung Foscari, whose hapless fate Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate, When...this he roused her sanguinary laws; Glad to return, though hope could grant no more, And chains and torture hailed him to the shore. 'Twas ever thus. Young... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1901 - 664 páginas
...of youth, Warm as the life, and with the mirror's truth. For this young Foscari, whose hapless fate Venice should blush to hear the Muse relate, When...more, And chains and torture hailed him to the shore." See also Rogers' Italy. The story of the Foscari, as told in that poem, was published in 1821. Byron's... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1920 - 484 páginas
...give backbone to a poem. The exiled Tahitian remembers his hut, the young Foscari remembers Venice : And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes, and Avon melts the heart. VOL. I. E This is no real subject. The pleasant, glossy workmanship does not wear well, save in lines... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1924 - 482 páginas
...give backbone to a poem. The exiled Tahitian remembers his hut, the young Foscari remembers Venice : And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes, and Avon melts the heart. VOL. I. E This is no real subject. The pleasant, glossy workmanship does not wear well, save in lines... | |
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