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... Rome , and there gathering materials for the fourth canto of " Childe Harold . " His residence at Venice was disgraced by low and gross debauchery ; and if there was greater refinement , there was no real im- provement of morality , in ...
... Rome , and there gathering materials for the fourth canto of " Childe Harold . " His residence at Venice was disgraced by low and gross debauchery ; and if there was greater refinement , there was no real im- provement of morality , in ...
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... Rome's imperial hill . CXI . Thus far have I proceeded in a theme Renew'd with no kind auspices : -to feel We are not what we have been , and to deem We are not what we should be , —and to steal The heart against itself ; and to conceal ...
... Rome's imperial hill . CXI . Thus far have I proceeded in a theme Renew'd with no kind auspices : -to feel We are not what we have been , and to deem We are not what we should be , —and to steal The heart against itself ; and to conceal ...
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... Rome have been more recently . The poem also , or the pilgrim , or both , have accompanied me from first to last ; and perhaps it may be a pardonable vanity which induces me to reflect with complacency on a composition which in some ...
... Rome have been more recently . The poem also , or the pilgrim , or both , have accompanied me from first to last ; and perhaps it may be a pardonable vanity which induces me to reflect with complacency on a composition which in some ...
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... Rome , heard the simple lament of the labourers ' chorus , " Roma ! Roma ! Roma ! Roma non è più come era prima , " it was difficult not to contrast this melancholy dirge with the bacchanal roar of the songs of exultation still yelled ...
... Rome , heard the simple lament of the labourers ' chorus , " Roma ! Roma ! Roma ! Roma non è più come era prima , " it was difficult not to contrast this melancholy dirge with the bacchanal roar of the songs of exultation still yelled ...
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... Rome ! And even since , and now , fair Italy ! Thou art the garden of the world , the home Of all Art yields and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert , what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful , thy waste More rich than ...
... Rome ! And even since , and now , fair Italy ! Thou art the garden of the world , the home Of all Art yields and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert , what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful , thy waste More rich than ...
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Page 166 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And Monarchs tremble in their Capitals, The oak Leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of Lord of thee, and Arbiter of War— These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 99 - And this is in the night: — Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee!
Page 93 - I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities torture...
Page 145 - There is the moral of all human tales ; 'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails, Wealth, vice, corruption, — barbarism at last. And History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page...
Page 159 - Enter: its grandeur overwhelms thee not; And why? It is not lessen'd; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
Page 78 - But hark! that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! arm! it is— it is— the cannon's opening roar! Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound, the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear...
Page 97 - At intervals some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill ; But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 134 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 100 - Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings ! ye ! With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless, — if I rest. But where of ye, oh tempests ! is the goal ? Are ye like those within the human breast ? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest ? XCVII.
Page 155 - He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday — All this rushed with his blood — Shall he expire And unavenged ? — Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire ! CXLII.