Pictures from the Early History of Venice, A.D. 403-1205Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1874 - 128 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 66 - ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; 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 espouse the everlasting Sea.
الصفحة 3 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
الصفحة 3 - She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean, Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion, A ruler of the waters and their powers.
الصفحة 124 - ... 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 espouse the everlasting sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade,. Those titles 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...
الصفحة 69 - Sirs, I here present unto you Queen Victoria, the undoubted Queen of this realm ; wherefore, all you who are come this day to do your homage are you willing to do the same...
الصفحة 32 - The memory of a day so full of change. From joy to grief, from grief to joy again, Through many an age, as oft as it came round, 'Twas held religiously.
الصفحة 44 - E'en hoary priests the sacred combat wage, And clothe in steel the palsied arm of age ; While beardless youths and tender maids assume The weighty morion and the glancing plume.
الصفحة 126 - Parables of Life. By the Author of " Earth's Many Voices." Royal 16mo, on toned paper, with seven illustrations. Cloth boards, gilt edges .
الصفحة 44 - The wand'ring hermit wak'd the storm of war. Their limbs all iron, and their souls all flame, A countless host, the red-cross warriors came...
الصفحة 125 - A Faithful Servant. Journal of what took place in the Tower of the Temple during the Captivity of Louis XVI., King of France. By JAMES F. COBB, Esq., Author of ' ' Silent Jim," ' ' Stories of Success,