| Daniel Eddy - 2005 - 509 páginas
...Italia ! thoa who hast The fatal gift of beauty which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. O God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right,... | |
| Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - 2005 - 736 páginas
...Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and could'st claim Thy right,... | |
| Huguenot Society of London - 1917 - 572 páginas
...Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty which became A funeral dower of present woes, and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame.' l Yet it is somewhat remarkable that this period has not received more notice from historians of the... | |
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