 Alas, the lofty city ! and alas, The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! But these shall be...  Everyday Classics: Sixth Reader - Page 75by Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1917 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1818 - 638 pages
...chip Our hands, and cry. " Eureka ! " it is clear — When but some false miragf of ruin rises near. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictur'd page! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay. Alas, for Earth, for... | |
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...Our bands, and cry ' Eureka !' it is clear— • When but some false mirage of ruin ris« near. 82. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger'sedge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...clap Our hands, and cry ' Eureka !' it is dear — When but some false murage of ruin rises near. 82. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay. And Livy's pictur'd page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay. Alas, for Earth, for... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 396 pages
...188. cult to name another monument within the walls of an equally certain character. Stanza LXXXII. for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free. It was one of the complaints of Poggio* that he saw almost nothing entire, and but very few remains... | |
 | John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - Italian literature - 1818 - 396 pages
...cult to name another monument within the walls of an equally certain character. Stanza LXXXII. far never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome watfree. It was one of the complaints of Poggio* that he saw almost nothing entire, and but very few... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...of ruin, rises near. LXXXII. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs • 39 and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictur'd page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay, Alas, for Earth, for... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...rises near. LXXXII. Alas! the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred triumphs! 42 and the day \Vhen Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's...bearing fame away ! Alas,, for Tully's voice, and Virgils' lay, And Livy's pictured page! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay.... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...Ouf Jiands , and cry „Eureka!'* it is clear — fflien but some false mirage of ruin rises near. Alas! the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred triumphs! and the day ll hen Brutus made the dagger's edge tttrpas* 663 TJie conqueror's sword in bearing fame away! Alax... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXII. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! M® and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free! LXXXIII. Oh thou, whose chariot roll'd on Fortune's wheel, (i3> Triumphant Sylla ! Thou, who didst... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 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...Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictur'd pnge ! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay* Alas, for Earth, for... | |
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