 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 276 páginas
...132, " I do forgive thy rankest fault." IV. iv. 22. in fee ; unqualified possession. Cf. Wordsworth, On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, "Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee." IV. iv. 34. market of his time ; that for which he sells his time. IV. iv. 40. scruple of thinking... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1906 - 414 páginas
...before, And Ocean bellow from his rocky shore, And neither awful Voice be heard by Thee ! W. Wordsworth ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC Once did...below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of Liberty. R She was a maiden city, bright and free ; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And when she... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 616 páginas
...Type of the wise who soar, but never roam ; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home ! SONNETS 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... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1907 - 530 páginas
...inspired by the struggle against Napoleon, and composed between 1802 and 1807. They open with the sonnet on The Extinction of the Venetian Republic, " Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee," and they close with that on the subjection of Switzerland, "Two voices are there"; an opening and a close... | |
 | Dean Acheson - 1970 - 858 páginas
...themselves in the vain effort to redeem the holy places from pagan profanation. There Venice Once did . . . hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west.1 More rectatly Napoleon had lost there his dream of oriental empire, and a century later Kaiser... | |
 | Denys Hay - 1977 - 274 páginas
...gave Venice by the end of the century a kind of mystical appeal to the remaining republics of Italy. Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty She was a maiden City, bright and free . . . Wordsworth's ' On the extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802' is a reminder that the Venetians... | |
 | Edward Muir - 1981 - 378 páginas
...propagated just that. This marital image has been preserved in the romantic memory of a Venice now lost. 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... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 1986 - 430 páginas
...city had long held the imagination of the poet as well as the political philosopher. Thus Wordsworth: Once did she hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was...fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty.35 Cooper's interest in Venice tells us much about an American thinker who felt the need to... | |
 | VD Mahajan - 1988 - 1014 páginas
...diplomacy. On the overthrow of the Republic of Venice by Napoleon Bonaparte, Wordsworth wrote thus: may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and Napoleon Bonaparte had made the preliminary peace of Leoben in April 1797. He made the final peace... | |
 | Eva Feder Kittay - 1990 - 376 páginas
...these begin an anaphoric chain.3 Let us look once more at the opening lines of Wordsworth's poem: 8.1 Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was...below her birth, Venice, the eldest child of liberty. In 8.1 we find the anaphoric chain: 8.2 She6 . . . Venice . . . her . . . Venice ... the eldest child... | |
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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. 
