RODERICK, THE LAST OF THE GOTHS.

A Tragic Poem.

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RODERICK, THE LAST OF THE GOTHS.

A Tragic Poem.

BY ROBERT SOUTHEY, ESQ.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. MDCCCXLIV.

RODERICK, THE LAST OF THE GOTHS:

A Tragic Poem.

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

Taciti Hist. lib. 3. c. 51.

TO GROSVENOR CHARLES BEDFORD, THIS POEM IS INSCRIBED, IN LASTING MEMORIAL OF A LONG AND UNINTERRUPTED FRIENDSHIP, BY HIS OLD SCHOOLFELLOW, ROBERT SOUTHEY.