 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1840 - 388 pages
...showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows...festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy ! But unto us she hath a spell beyond Her name in story, and her long array Of mighty shadows, whose... | |
 | Isaac Butt - 1840 - 1124 pages
...At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers : And such she was; but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade,...place of all festivity. The revel of the earth, the masquerade of Italy ! Childe Harold. Who would not praise Patricio's high desert. His hand unstain'd,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 998 pages
...Monarch s partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. Ш. In \ enice Tasso's echoes are no more, (3) s the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void,...feelings unemploy'd. f Who would be doom'd to gaze (1) See Historical Not«, at the end of this Canto, No. I. —LE. (2) An old writer, describing the... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1841 - 390 pages
...the very air seems pregnant with heaviness and sorrow, as if the grief which gave it its cognomen, In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows...States fall, arts fade — but nature doth not die, Not yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1841 - 474 pages
...robed, and of her feast Monarch< partook. and deem'd their dignity increased. • lit In Venice Tassors echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier...States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Xor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...III. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, ' And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces arc ! turritam telluris imaginero medio Océano figiiratam к pota* | inspicere." ' See Appendix, " Historical... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 560 pages
...In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. ni. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, (') And silent...festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy ! (1) See " Historical Notes" at the end of this Canto, No. I. (2) An old writer, describing the appearance... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1843 - 320 pages
...showers. In pnrple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows...here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not di» Nor yet forget how Venice once was dea The pleasant place of all festivity, Th^ revel of the earth,... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - 1844 - 318 pages
...showers. In purple was she robed, and of her feast Monarchs partook, and deem'd their dignity increased. In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows...not die: Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, 18 The pleasant place of all festivity, :'" The rev e 1 of the earth, the masque of Italy ! — But... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1845 - 222 pages
...happy. I will clasp thee, And we again will be [The figure canithes. My heart is crush'd ! VENICE. IN Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows...festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy ! But unto us she hath a spell beyond Her name in story, and her long array Of mighty shadows, whose... | |
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In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth... 
