Italy and Her Invaders, Volume 5 ;Volume 64

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Clarendon Press, 1885
 

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Page 495 - And strows her lights below, And deepens on and up! the gates Roll back, and far within For me the Heavenly Bridegroom waits, To make me pure of sin. The sabbaths of Eternity, One sabbath deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride!
Page 509 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 233 - Amone: con preghi invita, et al fin toglie in groppa, e per l'orme d'Angelica galoppa. 22 Oh gran bontà de' cavallieri antiqui! Eran rivali, eran di fé diversi, e si sentian degli aspri colpi iniqui per tutta la persona anco dolersi; e pur per selve oscure e calli obliqui insieme van senza sospetto aversi. Da quattro sproni il destrier punto arriva ove una strada in due si dipartiva.
Page 153 - ... Aventine, where spring-water there was none. In this quarter dwelt those poorer classes whose favour Appius had otherwise endeavoured to gain. It may therefore be suspected that in this work also he had a political end in view ; but however this may be, every one will agree with the remark that one must " feel unmixed pleasure in observing that the first Roman Aqueduct was constructed for the benefit of the poor, and of those who most needed it.
Page 352 - For thy destructive charms ; then, still untired, Would not be seen the armed torrents poured Down the deep Alps ; nor would the hostile horde Of many-nationed spoilers from the Po Quaff blood and water ; nor the stranger's sword Be thy sad weapon of defence, and so, Victor or vanquished, thou the slave of friend or foe.
Page 128 - ... 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 Her resurrection ; all beside — decay. Alas, for Earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free ! LXXXIII.
Page 133 - Stout Lartius hurled down Aunus Into the stream beneath : Herminius struck at Seius, And clove him to the teeth : At Picus brave Horatius Darted one fiery thrust, And the proud Umbrian's gilded arms Clashed in the bloody dust.
Page 369 - Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells; In native swords and native ranks The only hope of courage dwells: But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad.
Page 292 - Massicus humor implevere; tenent oleae armentaque laeta. hinc bellator equus campo sese arduus infert; 145 hinc albi, Clitumne, greges et maxima taurus victima, saepe tuo perfusi flumine sacro, Romanos ad templa deum duxere triumphos.
Page 378 - His honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

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