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ANGIOLINA arms bear beauty BENINTENDE BERTRAM BERTUCCIO FALIERO blood breath CALENDARO cause che fu chief CITIZEN Council death deep detto DOGE doubt ducal Duke duty earth Enter faith fathers feel Giovanni give hands hast hath head hear heart Heaven honour hope hour ISRAEL BERTUCCIO Italy late least leave less light LIONI live look lord Marco Marino Faliero means Michele mind nature never night noble Note o'er once palace pass passions patrician present prince proud punishment quale rest Saint SCENE senate sentence shame SIGNOR soul speak spirit stand Steno strike sword thee thine things thou thought thousand true trust unto Venice wrong
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Page xx - Ultimus Romanorum," the author of the Mysterious Mother, a tragedy of the highest order, and not a puling love-play. He is the father of the first romance and of the last tragedy in our language, and surely worthy of a higher place than any living writer, be he who he...
Page 162 - Who kindlest and who quenchest suns ! — Attest ' I am not innocent, — but, are these guiltless ? I perish, but not unavenged ; far ages Float up from the abyss of time to be, And show these eyes...
Page 248 - Many are poets but without the name, For what is poesy but to create From overfeeling good or ill ; and aim At an external life beyond our fate, And be the new Prometheus of new men, Bestowing fire from heaven, and then, too late, Finding the pleasure given repaid with pain...
Page 164 - Then, in the last gasp of thine agony, Amidst thy many murders, think of mine ! Thou den of drunkards with the blood of princes ! Gehenna of the waters ! thou sea Sodom ! Thus I devote thee to the infernal gods ! Thee and thy serpent seed ! [Here the Doge turns and addresses the Executioner.
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Page 81 - Proportion' d like the columns to the temple, Giving and taking strength reciprocal, And making firm the whole with grace and beauty, So that no part could be removed without Infringement of the general symmetry.
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| Title | Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, a Poem Volume 78, Issue 3 of Fawcett's collection of 18th and 19th century English drama Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: An Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts. With Notes. The Prophecy of Dante, a Poem, George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
| Author | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron |
| Contributors | John Murray, Thomas Davison |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1821 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 25 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 261 pages |
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