 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - Europe - 1852 - 538 pages
...affirm. as he inquires in vain for Caesar's glory and Nero's pride. 1 Aleesandro Manzoni. " Italia ! O Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty which...by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. O God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right,... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 414 pages
...to force the way ; And better had they ne'er been born Than read to doubt, or read to scorn. ITALY. Italia, oh, Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals traced in characters of flame. GOLDEN WORDS. Live well, and die never;... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...that the lightning sanctifies below " Whate'er it strikes ¡—yon head is doubly sacred now. XLII. ure gloom Of on Italian night, where (he deep skies assume CXXIX. Hues which have words, and speak wucs and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Rome - 1853 - 426 pages
...INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE OF ITALY. Italia ! oh, Italia ! thon who haat The fatal zitl of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past. On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by 8'inme, And annals traced in characters of flame. — Byron, 1. THE outline of Italy presents... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English fiction - 1853 - 502 pages
...sacred now. XLn. Italia! ob Italia ! thon who hast The fatal gift of beanty, which beeame A fnneral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plongh'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God ! that thon wert in thy nakedness... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 378 pages
...that the lightning sanctifies below 3 Whate'er it strikes;—yon head is doubly sacred now. , XLII. Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughM by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame, Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...below*1 YhateVr it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast n ng that the transaction could not be kept secret,...ordered the narrative to be drawn out upon paper, and s plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness... | |
 | 185? - 660 pages
...the distinguished artists of history. THK VATICAN AND THE ARTISTIC TREASURES OF ITALY. " Italia ! O Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which...A funeral dower, of present woes, and past. On thy swoet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame.1. \Vould that thon... | |
 | Haölé, George Washington Bates - Hawaii - 1854 - 506 pages
...security" that the great German family has become tongue-tied — that Italy, beautiful Italy, which had " The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past," has been locked up, as it were, in her own sculptured sepulchres, without the power and the means to... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1104 pages
...Whatc'er it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now XLII. Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast и The fatal gift of beauty, which became % A funeral dower of present woes and post, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh God... | |
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Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely... 
