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" Queen of the western waves, Where ride Massilia's triremes Heavy with fair-haired slaves; From where sweet Clanis wanders Through corn and vines and flowers; From where Cortona lifts to heaven Her diadem of towers. "
Lord Macaulay, His Life and Writings; Being the Substance of Two Lectures ... - Page 88
by Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 138 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 71

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine ; From lordly Volaterrse, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands...Fringing the southern sky ; From the proud mart of Pisse, Queen of the western waves, Where ride Massilia's triremes Heavy with fair-haired slaves ; From...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine; 4. From lordly Volaterrae, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands...Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern sky; 5. From the proud mart of PisaB, Queen of the western waves, Where ride Massilia's triremes Heavy with...
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Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 142 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine; 4. From lordly Volaterrae, Where .scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands...Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern sky; 5. From the proud mart of Pisae, Queen of the western waves, Where ride Massilia's triremes Heavy with...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 71

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 624 pages
...sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern sky ; From the proud mart of Pisa, Queen of the western waves, Where ride Massilia's...where sweet Clanis wanders Through corn and vines and floweis; From where Cortona lifts to heaven Her diadem of towers. Tall are the oaks whose acorns Drop...
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Römische Briefe von einem Florentiner [A. von Reumont].

Alfred von Reumont - 1844 - 564 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine; From lordly Volaterrae, Where scowls the farfamed hold Piled by the hands...Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain tops From the proud mart of Pisa-, Queen of the western waves, Where ride Massilias triremes...
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Appennine ; From lordly Volaterne, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands...Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-topa Fringing the southern sky ; From the proud mart of Pisa, Queen of the western waves,...
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The Modern Poetical Speaker; Or, a Collection of Pieces Adapted for ...

Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...hangs on the crest Of purple Apennine ; From lowly Volaterrse 2, Where scowls the far-fam'd hold Pil'd by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old ; From sea-girt Populonia 3, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain- tops Fringing the southern sky ; 1 Clusium, now...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pages
...beech and pine, Like an eagle's nest, hangs on the crest Of purple Appennine; From lordly Volatente, Where scowls the far-famed hold Piled by the hands...western waves, Where ride Massilia's triremes Heavy with fair-hair'd slaves ; 34S From where sweet Clanis wanders Through corn and vines and flowers ; From...
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The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, Volume 2

George Dennis - 1848 - 588 pages
...though Strabo has recorded his experience to the contrary, and Macaulay, on his authority, has sung of " sea-girt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern sky." . « - -, -/ .-* *M«;a.<t~.,J*SJev*^-^- Jf- '' Even were the distance not too great, the broad mass...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 57

1878 - 668 pages
...detect plagiarism, a literary vice of all times. MACKENZIE EC WALCOTT. POPULONIA AND SARDINIA. — " From sea-girt Populonia, Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain-tops Fringing the southern sky.' Macaulay's Horaliut, etani» IT. Sardinia here is clearly an error ; Macaulay meant to say Corsica....
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