 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young - English literature - 1910 - 1174 pages
...year, And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. (1807) ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC Once did...of liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; s No guile seduced, no force could violate; And when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse... | |
 | Curtis Hidden Page - English poetry - 1910 - 968 pages
...: And worship's! at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not. 1802. 1807. river-channel where bulrushes tell That the water...softly and well. How good is man's life, the mere by Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venioe, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City,... | |
 | Dean Acheson - Biography & Autobiography - 1970 - 858 pages
...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 - History - 1977 - 274 pages
...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 - History - 1981 - 378 pages
...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 - History - 1986 - 430 pages
...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 - History - 1988 - 1014 pages
...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 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...EnRP; FPL; GTBS; GTBS-P; NAEL-2; NoP; OAEL-2; OBEV; WGRP On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 90 ed a Lass 3 To maidens' vows and swearing Henceforth no credit give. You may g (1. 1—2) 91 And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. (1. 7—8)... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 244 pages
...1. 31. gorgeous East. Unlikely: West? Probably Wilde was misled by his half memory of Wordsworth's 'On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic': 'Once...gorgeous east in fee, | And was the safeguard of the west1. 1. 33. One. In Keats's 'The Fall of Hyperion', which Wilde is in a way replying to, the guide... | |
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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. 
