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A Hand-book for Travellers in Central Italy: Including the Papal States ... - Page 358
by John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - 1850 - 684 pages
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Lectures and essays on various subjects, historical, topographical, and artistic

William Sidney Gibson - 1858 - 326 pages
...delays, Standing with half its battlements, alone — but only the poet's description invests it with its two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity,...wave The green leaves over all by Time o'erthrown ; or tells us that a woman's grave was the treasure locked within this proud memorial of a husband's...
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Memories of Rome

Denis O'Donovan - 1859 - 350 pages
...fortress with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? A woman's grave. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace ? Was she chaste and fair...
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The Poetical Works of Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 914 pages
...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its Gordon Byron ? — A woman's grave. C. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace ? Was she chaste...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1859 - 364 pages
...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, XCIX. Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so loek'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave. But who was she, the lady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace ? Was...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1860 - 76 pages
...an army's haffled strength delays. Standing with half its hattloments alone, And with two thonsand years of ivy grown. The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all hy time o'erthrown i — What was this tower of strength ? within its eave [grave, at treasnre lay...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with illustr. by K. Halswelle

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid? — A woman's grave. c. But who was she, the )ady of the dead, Tomb'd in a palace? Was she chaste and...
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The Boston Review, Volume 1

1861 - 634 pages
...Way, a huge tower or fortress — " Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown." He turns to his " Murray" to know what so unique an antique may be, and it answers — " The tomb of...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 1

1861 - 636 pages
...Way, a huge tower or fortress — " Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown." He turns to his " Murray " to know what so unique an antique may be, and it answers — " The tomb...
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The Works of Lord Byron: Embracing His Suppressed Poems, and a Sketch of His ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1861 - 1154 pages
...fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays. Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of...garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over ah oy time o'erthrown ;— What was this tower of strength ? within its c«v< What treasure lay so...
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A History of the Romans Under the Emperors

Dawson Massy - 1863 - 522 pages
...fortress with its fence of stone, Such as an enemy's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown — The garland of Eternity, where waves The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown. What was this tower of strength ? Within its cave...
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