...Historical Sketch of the City — St. Ambrose — San Carlo Borromeo. Italia ! O Italia ! thou who host The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower...by shame, And annals graved In characters of name ! CHILDE HAROLD. AT eight in the evening of the same day that we left Venice, we arrived in the goodly...

...heart appreciated the terrible reality of Italy's oppression and suffering: " Italia ! 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 I Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness...

...and past, On thy sweet hrow is sorrow plough'd hy shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely...powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the rohhers hack, who press To shed thy hlood, and drink the tears of thy distress ; XLIII. Then might'st...

...into the cause. He is one who shares not the despair which wrung from Byron the exclamation — "O God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful ! " for he sees the day of power coming through the wisdom and valor of Sardinia's king, parliament,...

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

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

...rendered from an Italian sonnet, thus sings an Italian strain, never more appropriate than now:— "Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of...ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Would that tliou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and could'st claim Thy...

...wird shaved vorgezogen. Though on his brow were graven lines §. 28. anstere. B. Ch. 3, 52. on thy brow is sorrow ploughed by shame, and annals graved in characters of flame, 4, 42. goodliest trecs, loaden with faires t fruit. M. pl. 4,147. scarcely any voice was raisert...

...wird shaved vorgezogen. Though on his brow were graven lines §. 28. austere. B. Ch. 3, 52. on thy brow is sorrow ploughed by shame , and annals graved in characters of flame, 4, 42. goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit. M. pi. 4, 147. scarcely any voice was raised...

...that the lightning sanctifies below * Whate'er it strikes ; — yon head is doubly sacred now. XLII. Italia ! oh Italia ! thou who hast The fatal gift...ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God ! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy...