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... Childe Harold's pilgrimage, a romaunt - Page 122by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841Full view - About this book
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXII. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! 41 and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tally's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection... | |
| Edward J. Hallock - English language - 1854 - 260 pages
...They come! The Greek! The Greek!" — Hailecfc. " Alas ! the lofty city! and alas ! The trebly-hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's...surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away !" Childe Harold, Canto 4, Stanza 83. REM. 3. When a noun is used to introduce the subject of discourse,... | |
| John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...clap Our hands, and cry, " Eureka !" it is clear — When but some false mirage of ruin rises near. Alas ! the lofty city ! and, alas ! The trebly hundred...brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free ! Thy country's foes ere thou wouldst pause to feel The wrath of thy own wrongs, or reap the due Of... | |
| Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, " Here was or is," where all is doubly night? Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas ! for Tally's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1856 - 833 pages
...mirage of ruin rises near. '• LXXXII. Alas! the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred triumphs! 42 and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page!—but these shall be Her resurrection; all beside—decay. Alas, for earth, for never shall we... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 828 pages
...found at the place where the great sacrifice was made to patriotism, — on the spot •' Where Brutug 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,... | |
| Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1857 - 444 pages
...O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, " here was, or is," where all is doubly night? Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tally's* voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection... | |
| Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...Our hands, and cry " Eureka ! " it is clear, — 'When but some false mirage * of ruin rises near. 5. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus t made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice,... | |
| James Anderson (of Edinburgh.) - 1857 - 748 pages
...achieving for her the blessing of freedom and all that can make her great and glorious. " AIM ! for Tolly's voice and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page— but these shall be Her resurrection." But whatever advantages she might derive from the revival of the study of the Roman classics, something... | |
| Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...clap Our hands and cry, " Eureka !" it is clear—- When but some false mirage of ruin rises near. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free ! BYRON. THE JEWS AND THE SCRIPTURES. The Jews were instrumentally the means of conveying to us our... | |
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