| William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 350 páginas
...bitter truth is graved upon the favoured fields and sunny slopes of Italy : Italia ! oh, Italia ! thoti who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A...by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame ; O God ! that Ihou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim VOL. I. 21... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 páginas
...Know, that the lightning sanctifies below Whate'er it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now. XLIL Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 páginas
...the lightning sanctifies below (6) \Vhate' er it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now. XLII. e only hypocrite deserving praise : Not the loud recreant...he who looks on death — and silent dies. So ste plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. SOh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 páginas
...that the lightning sanctifies below r> Whate'cr it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now. XLIL Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 436 páginas
...Hauteville, whose names were William, Drogo, and Humphrey. AVben they reached the « Italia I oh Italia I thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh God I that thou wert in thy nakedness... | |
| 1845 - 262 páginas
...ITAIV. A Poem, in Four Cantos. With Notes, &c. A New Edition, By John Edmund Reade. Longman and Co. Italia ! oh ! Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty," Which not only attracted the Gothic conquerors of antiquity, hut also those Napoleons of the realms of rhyme,... | |
| Robert Baird - 1845 - 440 páginas
...tuo ferro cinta Pugnar col braccio di straniere genti, Per servir sempre, o vincitrice o vinta.1 ' Italia ! oh Italia ! Thou who hast The fatal gift...by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. O, God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right,... | |
| 1845 - 732 páginas
...antiquity ! Was it a dream only ? The volume will answer. Might it be, we would consent to sleep fora year. "Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of...is sorrow ploughed by shame, And annals graved in character of flame. Oh God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely, or more powerful, and could'st... | |
| William Coombs Dana - 1845 - 408 páginas
...muse amid the ruined relics of her ancient glory, and gaze on her priceless treasures of human art ! "Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast , , The fatal gift...past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame.' Oh God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right,... | |
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