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...bitter truth is graved upon the favoured fields and sunny slopes of Italy : Italia ! oh, Italia ! thoti who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A...ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame ; O God ! that Ihou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim VOL....

...Know, that the lightning sanctifies below Whate'er it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now. XLIL Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness...

...the lightning sanctifies below (6) \Vhate' er it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now. XLII. e only hypocrite deserving praise : Not the loud recreant...he who looks on death — and silent dies. So ste plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. SOh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness...

...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 VOL. I. 21 Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed ihy blood, and drink ihe tears of...

...that the lightning sanctifies below r> Whate'cr it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now. XLIL Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness...

...to insignificance; and Italy is now the theatre of struggles for mastery and despotism. " Oh Italy ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and coulilst claim Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed thy blood, and drink the tears...

...Hauteville, whose names were William, Drogo, and Humphrey. AVben they reached the « Italia I oh Italia I thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became...present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh God I that thou wert in thy nakedness...

...ITAIV. A Poem, in Four Cantos. With Notes, &c. A New Edition, By John Edmund Reade. Longman and Co. Italia ! oh ! Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty," Which not only attracted the Gothic conquerors of antiquity, hut also those Napoleons of the realms of rhyme,...

...; and with the substitution of a word, one might exclaim with the poet : * SICILIA '. O SICIZ.IA ' thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became...ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh GOD! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldpt claim Thy...