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yet made up her mind between him and his opponents : — Inter utrumque volat dubiis Victoria pennis . Victoria , though with ministers provided _.
Is , betwixt you and me , yet undecided . Nor that yet more remarkable complaint in Juvenal , — Si rara jugo Victoria sedit , Nil ibi majorum respectus , gratia nulla Umbra rum .
Let but this rare Victoria fill the throne , And all " respect for ancestors " is gone : — All care for shadows J And so on , with manifold pre
figurements of this age in the poems of Claudian , Statius , and others . And the patriotic Lusitanian poet , Camoens , anticipating her in the flattering style common to his tribe , exultingly affirms ,
that—Cithara j _& mais cantou Victoria . Que assi mere _^ a eterno nomo e gloria . Harp never sang Victoria that merited So great a name and glory to have inherited .
The same with regard to the fair tongue of Italy , which has upon innumerable occasions anticipated the auspicious hopes connected with her Majesty ' s triumphant name : as in that passage of Ariosto , canto , xiv , _stanza 7—
Nostra saluta , _nostra vita in quetta Vittoria suscitata si conosce , & c . Our life , salvation , all that kills the Tories , In this Victoria takes new lease , and glories : * r—And where that lively genius Pulci , by a sort of prophetic
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resiliency or retrospection , speaks of her Majesty and her illustrious mother as having been identified in feeling as well as name , shewing us—— Come doppia fu questa Vittoria ,
How this Victoria merged two selves in one : or lastly , that we may not fill our pages with these tempting Italian sounds , those lines of the sonnet in which the
celebrated poetress Veronica Gambara speaks of the more celebrated poetess , who was herself a Victoria , the famous Vittoria Colonna , Marchioness of
Pescara , who was so devoted to the memory of her husband ;—a passage with which we cannot do better than conclude this very anticipative and nominal article : for as to the Victoires of
the Boileaus , Berangers , and other French writers , they do not so well apply , either in sound or good omen : — Ben fia eterna di voi qua gift memoria ,
Ne potra ' 1 tempo , con la sua ruina , Far del bel nome vostro empia ruina , Ma di _lui porterete ampia Vittoria . Lasting shall be tby memory ; nor shall Time
Stop from thy beauteous name ltu Tibi gloria , But own he had not wings enough to climb To such a height , thou atarrycrown'd Victoria .
And so , taking leave of these wonderful prophecies of the poets ( for the realization of which they are responsible , not we ) , we finish with a hearty
prayer , that the realization may be as much to the purpose , as can be desired by all the lovers of peace , knowledge , advancement _, and womanhood .
32 Her Majesty's Name,And A Caution Ther...
32 Her Majesty ' s Name , and a Caution thereon *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/30/
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