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... true that he avowed all . He was conducted to the place of torture , but there is no mention made of any application for mercy on his part ; and the very circumstance of their having taken him to the rack seems to argue any thing but ...
... true that he avowed all . He was conducted to the place of torture , but there is no mention made of any application for mercy on his part ; and the very circumstance of their having taken him to the rack seems to argue any thing but ...
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... . Ber . F. Are you aware , from aught you have per- ceived , Of their decision ? Vin . No , my lord ; you know The secret custom of the courts in Venice . VOL . IV . C ' Ber . F. True ; but there still is SC . II 17 DOGE OF VENICE .
... . Ber . F. Are you aware , from aught you have per- ceived , Of their decision ? Vin . No , my lord ; you know The secret custom of the courts in Venice . VOL . IV . C ' Ber . F. True ; but there still is SC . II 17 DOGE OF VENICE .
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... True ; but there still is something given to guess , Which a shrewd gleaner and quick eye would catch at ; A whisper , or a murmur , or an air More or less solemn spread o'er the tribunal . The Forty are but men - most worthy men , And ...
... True ; but there still is something given to guess , Which a shrewd gleaner and quick eye would catch at ; A whisper , or a murmur , or an air More or less solemn spread o'er the tribunal . The Forty are but men - most worthy men , And ...
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... true justice is withheld , Will now take up the cause they once declined , And do you right upon the bold delinquent . Think you not thus , good uncle ? why do you stand So fix'd ? You heed me not : -I pray you , hear me ! Doge ...
... true justice is withheld , Will now take up the cause they once declined , And do you right upon the bold delinquent . Think you not thus , good uncle ? why do you stand So fix'd ? You heed me not : -I pray you , hear me ! Doge ...
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... True - but in those days- Doge . What is it that a Roman would not suffer , That a Venetian prince must bear ? Old Dandolo Refused the diadem of all the Cæsars , And wore the ducal cap I trample on , Because ' tis now degraded . Ber . F ...
... True - but in those days- Doge . What is it that a Roman would not suffer , That a Venetian prince must bear ? Old Dandolo Refused the diadem of all the Cæsars , And wore the ducal cap I trample on , Because ' tis now degraded . Ber . F ...
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volym 4 George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1816 |
The works of lord Byron, Volym 4 George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1823 |
The works of lord Byron, Volym 4 George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1823 |
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Sida 61 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Sida 165 - TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS GOETHE A STRANGER PRESUMES TO OFFER THE HOMAGE OF A LITERARY VASSAL TO HIS LIEGE LORD, THE FIRST OF EXISTING WRITERS, WHO HAS CREATED THE LITERATURE OF HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND ILLUSTRATED THAT OF EUROPE.
Sida 141 - DOGE turns and addresses the Executioner. Slave, do thine office ! Strike as I struck the foe ! Strike as I would Have struck those tyrants ! Strike deep as my curse ! Strike — and but once ! [The DOGE throws himself upon his knees, and as the Executioner raises his sword the scene closes.
Sida 400 - The government may exult over the repression of petty tumults ; these are but the receding waves repulsed and broken for a moment on the shore . while the great tide is still rolling on and gaining ground with every breaker.
Sida 61 - We must forget all feelings save the one, We must resign all passions save our purpose, We must behold no object save our country, And only look on death as beautiful, So that the sacrifice ascend to heaven, And draw down freedom on her evermore.
Sida 358 - Sorrow preys upon Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it From its sad visions of the other world Than calling it at moments back to this. The busy have no time for tears. liar. And therefore You would deprive this old man of all business ? Lor. The thing's decreed. The Giunta and " the Ten " Have made it law — who shall oppose that law ? Bar.
Sida 282 - Let's not unman each other: part at once: All farewells should be sudden, when for ever, Else they make an eternity of moments, And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.
Sida 412 - ... but it was very unpleasant, and nearly carried me off, and all that. On Monday, they put leeches to my temples, no difficult matter, but the blood could not be stopped till eleven...
Sida 400 - French revolution to every thing but its real cause. That cause is obvious — the government exacted too much, and the people could neither give nor bear more. Without this, the Encyclopedists might have written their fingers off without the occurrence of a single alteration. And the English revolution — (the first, I mean) — what was it occasioned by? The puritans were surely as pious and moral as Wesley or his biographer? Acts — acts on the part of government, and not writings against them,...