 Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall...  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt - Page 210by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 329 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1818 - 638 pages
...chip Our hands, and cry. " Eureka ! " it is clear — When but some false miragf of ruin rises near. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictur'd page! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay. Alas, for Earth, for... | |
 | England - 1818 - 762 pages
...Our bands, and cry ' Eureka !' it is clear— • When but some false mirage of ruin ris« near. 82. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger'sedge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 806 pages
...clap Our hands, and cry ' Eureka !' it is dear — When but some false murage of ruin rises near. 82. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred...Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay. And Livy's pictur'd page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay. Alas, for Earth, for... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 176 pages
...of ruin, rises near. LXXXII. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs • 39 and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictur'd page ! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay, Alas, for Earth, for... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1819 - 466 pages
...rises near. LXXXII. Alas! the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred triumphs! 42 and the day \Vhen Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's...bearing fame away ! Alas,, for Tully's voice, and Virgils' lay, And Livy's pictured page! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay.... | |
 | Friedrich Johann Jacobsen - English poetry - 1820 - 796 pages
...Ouf Jiands , and cry „Eureka!'* it is clear — fflien but some false mirage of ruin rises near. Alas! the lofty city! and alas! The trebly hundred triumphs! and the day ll hen Brutus made the dagger's edge tttrpas* 663 TJie conqueror's sword in bearing fame away! Alax... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1821 - 478 pages
...chart, the stars their map, And knowledge spreads them on her ample lap; But Rome is as the desart, where we steer Stumbling o'er recollections ; now...Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictur'd pnge ! — but these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside — decay* Alas, for Earth, for... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 308 pages
...mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXII. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! M® and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass...— decay. Alas, for Earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free! LXXXIII. Oh thou, whose chariot roll'd on Fortune's... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...cast a lunar light, And say, ' here was, or is,' where all is doubly night ? Alas ! the lofty city I and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day...made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword iu bearing fame away ! Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page !— but... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Bookbinding - 1823 - 402 pages
...mirage of ruin rises near. LXXXII. Alas ! the lofty city ! and alas ! The trebly hundred triumphs! (42) and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away 1 Alas, for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! — but these shall be Her... | |
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