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" Oh Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. "
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 223
1818
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Notes and Queries

1855 - 1080 pages
...Gcrusalemme Librntta has never, to my knowledge, been noted : * Oh Komc ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires! nml control In their shut broads their petty misery. What are our woes ami siiKY-rancc ? Come and MO...
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A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ...

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 610 pages
...of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and eontrol In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferanee ? Come and see The eypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones...
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Poetry: selected for the use of schools and families by A. Bowman

Anne Bowman - 1856 - 316 pages
...And makes the happiness she does not find. JOHNSON. ROME. OH, ROME ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother...your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples. Ye f Whose agonies are evils of a day, — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of...
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 8

1857 - 686 pages
...Byron's lines, rebuking the complaints of men, in presence of the ruins of states, are well known : "What are our woes and sufferance? come and see The...O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonice are evils of a day : A world io at our feet, aa fragile as our clay.' These ideas were nearly...
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Putnam's Monthly, Volume 8

1857 - 678 pages
...presence of the ruins of states, are well known : " What are our woes and sufferance ? come and eeo The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er...steps of broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies ore evils of a day : A world is at our feet, as fragile as our elay.' These ideas were nearly expressed...
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A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy: Part I. Southern Tuscany ..., Part 1

1857 - 376 pages
...from Florence will eujoy the first view of St. Peter's. " Ob lîume ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires 1 and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our \vocs and sufferance f Come and...
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A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy

John Murray (Firm) - 1857 - 416 pages
...from Florence will enjoy the first view of St. Peter's. " Oh Rome 1 my country 1 city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee. Lone mother of dead empires 1 and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and...
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The pupil's manual of choice reading, arranged by T.B. Smith

Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...unavenged? Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire !— BYRON. ROME. Oh Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother...sufferance ''. Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and olod your way O'er steps 01 broken thrones and temples, ye Whose agonies are evils of a day ! — A...
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Titan, Volume 27

1858 - 784 pages
...Dilectae urbis tenero conceptus ab ungue Tecum crevit amor.' ' O Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother...breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferings t Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way, O'er steps of broken thrones...
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Flood and Field; Or, Recollections of a Soldier of Fortune

William Hamilton Maxwell - 1858 - 310 pages
...pride and pomp of human greatness, the fall will only be the more marked and the more miserable. " Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your...and temples, ye! Whose agonies are evils of a day. The Goth, the Christian, Time, War; Flood, and Fire, Have dealt upon the seven-hill'd city's pride;...
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