 And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 411808Full view - About this book
 | John Bassett - 1997 - 442 pages
...one cannot imagine a cultivated Frenchman or Russian indifferent to this beautiful story. Men we are, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away. 17. Henry Nash Smith, review, Southwest Review Autumn 1929, iii-iv William Faulkner's... | |
 | Larry H. Peer - 1998 - 280 pages
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 | Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - 1999 - 268 pages
...violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish,...tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great... | |
 | Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - 1999 - 264 pages
...Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those tides vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great... | |
 | Daniel Sanjiv Roberts - 2000 - 348 pages
...the event could not break the shock of it. Venice, it is true, had become a shade; but, after all, 'Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great has pass'd away.' But here the previous circumstances were far different from those of Venice. There... | |
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