| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 halaman
...left him such a doom ! His only glory was that hour Of self-upheld abandon 'd power. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell ; A striet aecountant of his beads, A subtle disputant on creeds, His dotage trifled well :§ Yet better... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 halaman
...left him such a doom ! His only glory was that hour Of self -upheld abaudon'd power. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung—- Too late thou leav'st the high command... | |
| Double acrostics - 1862 - 208 halaman
...christened man, For cross or sign thou wilt not fly, ' For muttered word, or ban." 5. " The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell." 6. " Let us think of those that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and craggy steep." 7. "... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 802 halaman
...left him such a doom ! His only glory was that hour Oi self-upheld abandon'd power. The Spaniard,§ when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 292 halaman
...self-upheld abandoned power. VIII. The Spaniard,* when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,t Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell;...known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. IX. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1867 - 740 halaman
...Yet left him such a doom ! Hie only glory was that hour Of self-upheld abandon'd power. The Spaniard, r'it thou behold ? Cain. How know I what I dare behold ? As yet, thou ba III» dotage trifled well : Yet better had he neither known Л bigot's shrine, nor despot'» throne.... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1868 - 666 halaman
...left him such a doom 1 His only glory was that hour Of self-upheld abandon' d power. The Spaniard,} when the lust of sway. Had lost its quickening spell. Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire fora cell; A strict accountant of his beads, A subtle disputant on creeds, His dotage trifled well... | |
| Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 halaman
...self-upheld abandoned power. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell, 65 Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell ; A strict accountant pf his beads, A subtle disputant on creeds, His dotage trifled well : 70 Yet better had he neither... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1869 - 168 halaman
...Gloss., sv And heads and pray'r-hooks are the toys of age. Cf. Byron, Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, st. 8 : Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell;...accountant of his beads, A subtle disputant on creeds,' &c. EPISTLE III. 1. 1. Here then we rest. An improvement upon the early editions, * Lean':. dulness,... | |
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