 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...  The Christian Teacher - Page 1631839Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Haölé, George Washington Bates - 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... | |
 | 1854 - 478 pages
...distinguished artists of history. THF, VATICAN AND THE ARTISTIC TREASURES OF ITALY. . " Italia ! О Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became . A funeral dnwcr, of present woo«, and past. On thy eweet brow is sorrow ploughed by «hamc, And annals graved... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...fair Italy. Rogers's Italy. Italia ! O Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, whieh beeame A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in eharaeters of flame. Byron's ChHile Harold. Fair Italy ! ThoB... | |
 | nokkrum islendingum - 1857 - 400 pages
...ítala, svo \,ab verbur satt lengi enn sem Byron lávarbur kvab um ítalíu í Childe Harold (IV, 43): „Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast the fatal gift...became a funeral dower of present woes and past. on íhy sweet brow is sorrow plougWd by shame: — ab fegurb landsins er orbin því hin mesta hefndargjöf.... | |
 | James Anderson (of Edinburgh.) - 1857 - 748 pages
...Comipondcnce, torn. I. pj. ITS, 175, 177-179. of t!)t information IS ITALY. "Italia! O Italia! then who hait The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes ami past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shani!\ And annals graved in characten of flame.... | |
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