 It passed away, that high disdain of absolute power, that steadiness and self-devotion, which raised the half-civilized Lombards of the twelfth century to the level of those ancient republics, from whose history our first notions of freedom and virtue...  Poems: Now First Collected - Page 129by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Hallam - 1846 - 610 pages
...of those ancient republics, from whose history our first notions of freedom and virtue are derived. The victim by turns of selfish and sanguinary factions, of petty tyrants, and of foreign * Though there was no permanent vetic diet, with as extensive powers as diet of the Lombard league,... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - Commercial geography - 1851 - 1038 pages
...Intelligent, and industrious people in Europe, sunk Into a state of sluggish indolence and apathy. " The victim by turns of selfish and sanguinary factions,...or conquered. In the indignant language of her poet (Fllicaja), stilt alike a slave ; a long retribution for the tyranny of Home." (HaUam't Middle ¿get,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1853 - 532 pages
...of those ancient republics, from whose history our first notions of freedom and virtue are derived. The victim by turns of selfish and sanguinary factions,...the indignant language of her poet, still alike a slaved, a long retribution for the tyranny of Rome. Frederic did not attempt to molest the cities of... | |
 | J. R. MacCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Geography - 1854 - 1048 pages
...Intelligent, and industrious people In Europe, sunk into a state of sluggish Indolence and apathy. " The victim by turns of selfish and sanguinary factions,...heaven; she has seen her harvests trodden down by the horse* of the stranger, and the blood of her children wasted in quarrels not their own ; ••ontjtifring... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...the recollection of that liberty which had stalked like a majestic spirit among the ruins of Milan. The victim by turns of selfish and sanguinary factions,...in quarrels not their own. Conquering or conquered, still alike a slave; a long retribution for the tyranny of Rome. III. HALLAM. Translate, adding a short... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1856 - 532 pages
...of those ancient republics from whose history our first notions of freedom and virtue are derived. The victim by turns of selfish and sanguinary factions,...alike a slave* a long retribution for the tyranny of Kome. Frederic did not attempt to molest the cities of Lombardy in the enjoyment of those privileges... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1860 - 534 pages
...of those ancient republics from whose history our first notions of freedom and virtue are derived. The victim by turns of selfish and sanguinary factions,...alike a slave," a long retribution for the tyranny of Eome. Frederic did not attempt to molest the cities of LomAffaira of bardy in the enjoyment of those... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - World history - 1860 - 592 pages
...industrious people in Europe, sunk into a state of sluggish indolence and apathy. " The victim," says Hallam, "by turns, of selfish and sanguinary factions, of petty tyrants, and of foreign invasions, Italy has fallen like a star from its place in the heavens ; she has seen her harvest trodden... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - World history - 1862 - 584 pages
...'foreign invasions, Italy has fallen like a star from its place in the heavens ; she has seen her harvest trodden down by the horses of the stranger, and the...the indignant language of her poet, still alike a tlave ! " The picture presented by the eloquent writer just quoted, is enough to make all friends of... | |
 | English literature - 1865 - 610 pages
...factions, Italy fell like a star from its place in heaven : she saw her harvests trodden down by the hoofs of the stranger, and the blood of her children wasted in quarrels not their own — a long and not unmerited retribution for the tyranny of Rome.' Notwithstanding the long political... | |
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