RODERICK, THE LAST OF THE GOTHS. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. POET LAUREATE, AND MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY, OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, AND OF IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. FIFTH EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. Tanto acrior apud majores, sicut virtutibus gloria, ita flagitiis pœnitentia, fuit. Sed hæc aliaque, ex veteri memoriâ petita, quotiens res locusque exempla recti, aut solatia mali, poscet, haud absurdè memorabimus. TACITI Hist. lib. 3. c. 51. Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street, London, As the ample Moon, From error, disappointment, . . nay from guilt; WORDSWORTH. RODERICK, THE LAST OF THE GOTHS. XIV. COUNT, said Pelayo, Nature hath assigned Strength to the weak and to the wounded balm; In the last solemn words, the last farewell |