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" KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime... "
The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 408
1844
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The works of lord Byron including the suppressed poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1828 - 780 pages
...EVERT SENT1MEXT OF rFGABD AND KESPECT, BY HIS GRATEFDLLT OBLIGED AND SINCERE FRIEND, BYRON. CANTO I. KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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Poetry for Schools: Designed for Reading and Recitation. The Whole Selected ...

Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...stirr'd in this black spot, /only lived — / only drew The accursed breath of dunsreon dew." TURKEY. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...Of thy bold harp, green Isle ! — the Hero is thine own. SCOTT. 22. — FROM THE BRIDE OP ABVDOS. KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, • Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now...
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The Norwich magazine

1835 - 404 pages
...or Shakspeare. What can be finer than the opening of his first canto in the " Bride of Abydos ?" " Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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Selections from My Journal, During a Residence in the Mediterranean

1836 - 140 pages
...country, and which are never more forcibly recalled than in reading these lines of Lord Byron : — •' Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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The complete works of lord Byron, repr. from the last London ed ..., Volume 1

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837 - 480 pages
...1MKNT OP KbiilKl) ASTD RiSPtCT, ВТ HIS GRATEFULLY OBLIGED A9TD SIM I Я t FftlXXD, BYRON. CANTO I Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle(?) Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clnne, Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - 1838 - 368 pages
...A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — P;>sli down yon cup of Samian wine ! THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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Parlour Magic

1838 - 214 pages
...likely, and that a volume of Byron is given to your confederate, who selects the passage commencing " Know ye the land, where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime," &c. You know " cypress" being the first word that can be classed,...
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Letters from the Old World, Volume 1

Sarah Rogers Haight - 1840 - 320 pages
...of poetry, even brighter and more enchanting than those beautiful lines of Byron, wherein he asks, " Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt...
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The lover and the husband; The woman of a certain age, etc. [by P.M.C. de ...

Pierre Marie Charles de Bernard du Grail de la Villette, Catherine Grace Frances Gore - 1841 - 998 pages
...affectionately at his fat neighbour, resumed the conversation. " I shall now open our artistical sitting' Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle, Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime." " It is hotter there than here, I fancy," observed the notary,...
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