| Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1838 - 192 páginas
...fortune to the state. After her victory he was not only recalled, but elected Doge some years later. Prime model of a Christian commonwealth ! Thou wise...thine own memorials of live stone, And in the pictures of thy kneeling princes, And in the lofty words on lofty tombs, And in the breath of antient chroniclers,... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1838 - 194 páginas
...fortune to the state. After her victory he was not only recalled, but elected Doge some years later. Prime model of a Christian commonwealth ! Thou wise...thine own memorials of live stone, And in the pictures of thy kneeling princes, And in the lofty words on lofty tombs, And in the breath of antient chroniclers,... | |
| 1838 - 722 páginas
...Milnes has, we fear, taken a view too favourable to be historically true, when he addresses it as " Prime model of a Christian commonwealth ! Thou wise...simplicity, which present men Calumniate, not conceiving — " but we are warned, by the prospective censure in the last half line, to say no more. We doubt,... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1844 - 226 páginas
...wouldst deign at least to use their wealth, Though thou didst scorn the gift of their poor lives.* ****** Prime model of a Christian commonwealth ! Thou wise...present men Calumniate, not conceiving, — joy is mine, * As in the instance of Antonio Grimani, who was living in exile at Rome at the time of the league... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1844 - 228 páginas
...wouldst deign at least to use their wealth, Though thou didst scorn the gift of their poor lives.* ****** Prime model of a Christian commonwealth \ Thou wise...present men Calumniate, not conceiving, — joy is mine, * As in the instance of Antonio Grimani, who was living in exile at Rome at the time of the league... | |
| Alexis François Rio - 1854 - 448 páginas
...once enhanced my enjoyment in the presence of those masterpieces which we have admired together: — " Prime model of a Christian commonwealth, Thou wise...thine own memorials of live stone, And in the pictures of thy kneeling princes, And in the lofty words on lofty tombs, And in the breath of ancient chroniclers,... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1868 - 258 páginas
...wouldst deign at least to use their wealth, Though thou didst scorn the gift of their poor lives. ****** Prime model of a Christian commonwealth ! Thou wise...thine own memorials of live stone, And in the pictures of thy kneeling princes, And in the lofty words on lofty tombs, And in the breath of ancient chroniclers,... | |
| Sir Charles Lock Eastlake - 1870 - 364 páginas
...follow him in quoting a similar expression of praise from an enlightened countryman of our own.f " Joy is mine That I have read and learnt thee as I...thine own memorials of live stone, And in the pictures of thy kneeling princes, And in the lofty words on lofty tombs, And in the breath of ancient chroniclers,... | |
| Richard Monckton Milnes (Baron Houghton) - 1876 - 350 páginas
...wouldst deign at least to use their wealth, Though thou didst scorn the gift of their poor lives.* **#*** Prime model of a Christian commonwealth ! Thou wise...thine own memorials of live stone, And in the pictures of thy kneeling princes, And in the lofty words on lofty tombs, And in the breath of ancient chroniclers,... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 564 páginas
...which no one who has stayed long enough to enjoy its melancholy beauty can leave without regret. " Prime model of a Christian commonwealth Thou wise...I have read and learnt thee as I ought, Not in the rude compiler's painted shell, But in thine own memorials of live stone, And in the pictures of thy... | |
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