| Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 páginas
...thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; 75 AU Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; TothinkthatGtod'sfairworldhathbeen BO/ The footstool of a thing so mean; / And Earth hath spilt her... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 páginas
...throne. DC. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st ls on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age, 140 not enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1907 - 548 páginas
...Emperor. All the learning of the historians fails to better Lord Byron's flair for the true Napoleon : 1 To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean.1 Cardigan Priory in the Olden Days. By EMILY M. PRITCHARD (OLWEN POWYS). (London : Heinemann.)... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 páginas
...despot's throne. But thou — from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; All...been The footstool of a thing so mean ; And Earth hath spilt her blood for him, Who thus can hoard his own ! And Monarchs bow'd the trembling limb, And... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 páginas
...hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung j em all for me ! I never saw its like before, I ne'er...more : It seem'd like me to want a mate, But was bee a The footstool of a thing so mean ; And Earth hath spilt her blood for him. Who thus can hoard... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1913 - 274 páginas
...— from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command 75 To which thy weakness clung; All evil spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thy own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been 80 The footstool of a thing so mean; And... | |
| Charles Edward Locke - 1914 - 320 páginas
...and selfdenial, and sometimes even life itself. Napoleon would not pay the price, and Byron wrote: To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean. . . . But who would soar the solar height To set in such a starless night? Calvary's terrific tragedy... | |
| George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 páginas
...despot's throne. But thou— from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung— 75 Too late thou leav'st ou serves^ must I claim my subject : and will make appear That as he was my worshipper in dust, 80 To think that God 's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean; And Earth hath spilt... | |
| Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 páginas
...despot's throne. 72 But thou— from thy reluctant hand The thunderbolt is wrung — Too late thou leav'st the high command To which thy weakness clung; All...fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean ; 8l And Earth hath spilt her blood for him. Who thus can hoard his own ! And Monarchs bow'd the trembling... | |
| John Cann Bailey - 1923 - 304 páginas
...full of scorn for the man who could survive his fall ; and the scorn has a moral judgement in it : All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve...world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean. As a whole the ode is rather schoolboyish, at once careless and declamatory. And no schoolboy would... | |
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