| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 356 pages
...Our hands, and cry " Eureka !" it is clear — When but some false mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXII. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...— decay. Alas, for Earth, for never shall we see [free ! That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was LXXXIJI. Oh thou, whose chariot roll'd on... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 356 pages
...hands, and cry " Eureka ! " it is clear — When but some false mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXI I. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...— decay. Alas, for Earth, for never shall we see [free ! That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was LXXXIII. Oh thou, whose chariot roll'd on... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 982 pages
...Gibbon and the modern writers. LXXX1I. Alas! the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred triumphs! (3) and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free! LXXXIII. Oh thou, whose chariot roll'd on Fortune's wheel, Triumphant... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 352 pages
...elear — When hut some false mirage of ruin rises near. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trehly hundred triumphs ' ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in hearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — hut these... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...und the modern writers. LXXXn. Alas! the lofty city! and aJas! The trebly hundred triumphs! (3) aiid the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fume away! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's by, And Lny's pictured page! — but these shall be... | |
| 1849 - 602 pages
...Transteverino in the crowd. Thus ended the life of this intriguing politician, just on the spot " Where Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword, in bearing fame away !'' TOL. MIT. — NO. CXX1X. 2 Like Caesar, he had been warned of, but disregarded, his danger; and... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...inspiration, struck out some of the grandest conceptions that poet or philosopher has ever uttered. " Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And f. ivy's pictured page : but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside decay. There is the moral... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 536 pages
...which was found at the place where the great sacrifice was made to patriotism, — on the spot " Where Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword, in bearing fame away." It is the statues, that embody the grand moral conception of the ancients. The best are of Greek sculpture,... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pages
...Our hands, and cry " Eureka ! " it is clear — When but some false mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXU. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free ! Oh thou, whose chariot' roll'd on Fortune's wheel, Triumphant Sylla !... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...and the modern writers. LXXXII. Alas! the lofty city! and alas! • The trebly hundred triumphs ! (3) rge Gordon Byron Byron she bore when Rome was free! LXX.XUI. Oh thon, whose chariot roll'd on Fortune's wheel. Triumphant... | |
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