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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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An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ...

John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...citron bowers. Where the gold-orange lights the dusky grove ? Mus. HEMANS. — Mignon's Song, Page !I47. 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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Topics of the Day: Medical, Social, and Scientific

James Ansley Hingeston - 1863 - 442 pages
...alone related for the first time as a matter of fact, what Goethe had chanted only as a fond idea, Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? And he alone in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage lighted up with the...
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A History of All Nations: From the Earliest Periods to the Present ..., Volume 1

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1864 - 678 pages
...poet thus describes this region, so favored by nature, yet so degraded in its social condition : t£ 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 lovt of the tunic, Now melt...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...nearly nought, It was Eternity to Thought ! FROM 'THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS.' 280. THE CLIME OF THE EAST. 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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A century of anecdote from 1760 to 1860, Volume 1

John Timbs - 1864 - 390 pages
...had only proceeded a few paces when he was recognised, and a chorus of voices repeated aloud, — " Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ?" " I know not what possessed us," said the informant, who was...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whispered word. Parisina. Stanza 1. 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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Poems

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 pages
...0V BBGABD AND EESPECT, BY HIS GKiTliia- tl.Y OBLIGED AMU BINCESE ZBIBHD, BYBON. CANTO THE FIRST. 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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A Common-school Grammar of the English Language

Simon Kerl - 1866 - 366 pages
...beauty to the best advantage, verse is usually arranged in lines, as in the following specimen : — " 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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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek verse, by ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 pages
...thy face hath set on fire; fair Phillis kindleth Coridon's desire.' R. GREENE 581 THE LAND OF THE SUN 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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Extracts from English Literature

John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms 'no more its chorish'd earth. BYIION. The Giaour. . 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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