 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826 - 852 halaman
...Dr self-upheld abandoh'd power. The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening §pell, Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell ; A strict accountant of hi§ bends, A subtle disputant on creeds, His dotage trifled well: Vet better had he neither known... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1828 - 406 halaman
...such a doom ! His only glory was that hour Of self-upheld abandon'd power. 8. The Spaniard, (•*) when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. y. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 halaman
...dotard views the store, He views and wonders that they please no more. Johnson, Vanity of Human Withet. A strict accountant of his beads, A .subtle disputant...neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. Byron. DO'TTARD, ns This word seems to signify a tree kept low by cutting; or is perhaps a false spelling... | |
 | James Holman - 1834 - 386 halaman
...in the former is deposited the cradle of Charles the Fifth, and the chair in which " The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell." This museum contains also a number of interesting objects of nature and art; amongst the former a good... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 halaman
...less consequence, it will be better altogether that it is anonymous."— LordS. to Mr. M. April 11.3 Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell...neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. (2) But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1837 - 328 halaman
...April 11.] A strict accountant of his beads, A subtle disputant on oreeds, His dotage trifled well : i Yet better had he neither known A bigot's shrine, nor despot's throne. 2 But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 halaman
...merit than going to doze in a convent.1 One may avoid active guilt in a sequestered 1 " The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell ! life ; but the virtue of it is merely negative, though innocence is beautiful. I approve much of... | |
 | 1840 - 364 halaman
...District of New-York(• v unA U) 111 Fulton-street, NY AROUND THE WORLD. CHAPTER I. " The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell, Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a «ell: A strict accountant of his beads, A subtle disputant on creeds, His dotage trifled well : Yet... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 halaman
...convent. 1 One may avoid active guilt in a sequestered 1 " The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lust its quickening spell, Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell! life; but the virtue of it is merely negative, though innocence is beautiful. I approve much of your... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1842 - 632 halaman
...dead, or that our language was more refined at Bristol in the reign of Henry V. • " The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell,...neither known A bigot's shrine nor despot's throne." Byron. — E. b See in Walpole's Worki?, vol. iv. the papers relative to Chatterton ; see also vol.... | |
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The Spaniard, when the lust of sway Had lost its quickening spell, Cast crowns for rosaries away, An empire for a cell... 
