 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1846 - 312 pages
...— but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die: Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy ! But unto us she hath a spell beyond Her name in story, and her long array Of mighty shadows, whose... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur - American literature - 1846 - 334 pages
...night, and all is gay and brilliant, and on memory the olden times come back, when queenly Venice was " The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth — the masque of Italy." causes which have operated to destroy the nationality and so fearfully to change the aspect and condition... | |
 | 1846 - 910 pages
...gondolas and gondoliers continue to this day to be amongst the most characteristic things connected with ' The pleasant place of all festivity. The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.' Reduced as Venice now is from her ancient dignity and affluence — a mere appendage to Austria —... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...— but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how e, And throbb'd awhile, then beat no more : The skies spun like a mighty wheel ; I saw the trees like ! ttirritam tellurlt Imaginem medio Oceano figuralara tc putct iupicere." > See Appendix, " Historical... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 544 pages
...intoxication of mirth and love. Venice was then a city where pleasure reigned supreme. She was truly The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy. The Venetian women still glowed with the beauty which Titian and Giorgione have gained an immortality... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1850 - 736 pages
...position she once occupied. " States faJl — arts fade, but nature doth not decay, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy." England, ancient as she appears to us, is hardly half the age of Venice at the time of her fall. But... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 698 pages
...with which he is surrounded, can he go back in imagination to those days of liberty and valour when " Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.'' From such scenes of national distress, and from the melancholy spectacle of despotic power ruling in... | |
 | Commerce - 1850 - 712 pages
...position she •once occupied. " States fall — arts fade, but nature doth not decay, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy." England, ancient as she appears to us, is hardly half the age of Venice at the time of her fali. But... | |
 | Commerce - 1850 - 718 pages
...position she once occupied. " States fall — arts fade, but nature doth not decay, Nor yet forget bow Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of lUly." England, ancient as she appears to us, is hardly half the age of Venice at the time of her fall.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 696 pages
...is surrounded, can he go back in imagination to those days of liberty and valour when " Venice ouco was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy." From such scenes of national distress, and from the melancholy spectacle of despotic power ruling in... | |
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In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear: Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth... 
