ASTOR LIBRARI

THE LAST OF THE GOTHS.

BY

ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq.

POET LAUREATE,

AND

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY,
OF THE ROYAL SPANISH ACADEMY OF HISTORY, AND OF

THE ROYAL INST TE OF THE NEZERLANDS.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROW'N,

PATERNOSTER-ROW,

Tanto acrior apud majores, sicut virtutibus gloria, ita flagitiis poenitentia, fuit. Sed hæc aliaque, ex veteri memoriâ petita, quotiens res locusque exempla recti, aut solatia mali, poscet, haud absurdè memorabimus.

Taciti Hist, lib. 3. c. 51.

14. The Res
1: Roderic
4. Covado
1. Roderick

16. The Act
2. Roderic
4. The Mo
11. The Fo

2. The Me
14. The Va
131. Roderi

85. Poder Sones...

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CONTENTS

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VOLUME SECOND.

PAGE

tents

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9

22

38

51

68

14. The Rescue .....

15. Roderick at Cangas

16. Covadonga............

17. Roderick and Siverian.......

18. The Acclamation.........

19. Roderick and Rusilla .......

20. The Moorish Camp.

21. The Fountain in the Forest ....

22. The Moorish Council............

23. The Vale of Covadonga.....

24. Roderick and Count Julian .......

25. Roderick in Battle............

NOTES

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89

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122

133

148

175

As the ample Moon,
In the deep stillness of a summer even
Rising behind a thick and lofty Grove,
Burns like an unconsuming fire of light
In the green trees; and kindling on all sides
Their leafy umbrage, turns the dusky veil
Into a substance glorious as her own,
Yea, with her own incorporated, by power
Capacious and serene: Like

power

abides
In Man's celestial Spirit; Virtue thus
Sets forth and magnifies herself; thus feeds
A calm, a beautiful and silent fire,
From the incumbrances of mortal life,
From error, disappointment,.. nay from guilt ;
And sometimes, so relenting Justice wills,
From palpable oppressions of Despair.

WORDSWORTH.