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... The Works of Lord Byron: Childe Harold's pilgrimage - Page 132by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821Full view - About this book
| 1818 - 638 pages
...some false miragf of ruin rises near. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! 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... | |
| 1818 - 762 pages
...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 lay, And Livy's pictur'd page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside— decay. Alas, for Earth, for... | |
| 1818 - 806 pages
...false murage of ruin rises near. 82. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! 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... | |
| John Cam Hobhouse Baron Broughton - 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 - 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... | |
| Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - 1820 - 796 pages
...Tully's voice , and VirgiPs lay, And Livy's pictured page! — but these shall b* Her resurrection i all beside — decay. Alas , for Earth , for never shall we see That brightuess in her eye she bore when Rome wot free! •* Oh thou, whose chariot roll'd on Fortune's... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 478 pages
...mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXI I. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! 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 pnge ! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay* Alas, for Earth, for... | |
| 1821 - 444 pages
...or is,' where all is doubly night ? Alas ! the lofty city I and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword iu bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page !— but... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 334 pages
...mirage of ruin rises near. LXXX1I. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trehly hundred triumphs ! (42) and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in hearing fame away! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pietured page ! — hut these... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 906 pages
...mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXII. Alas! the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred trinmphs \'" and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...in bearing fame away! Alas, for Tully's voice, and \ T irgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page!—but these shall be Her resurrection; all beside—decay.... | |
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