| Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. " Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth !...Thermopylae ! " What, silent still? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1821 - 232 pages
...left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth !...Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living... | |
| England - 1821 - 778 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. " Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth !...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopybe ! « What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like... | |
| English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
...heroic lay is túneles« now, The heroic bosom beats no more ! Must rcc but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled ! Earth ! render...the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thennopylte. What ! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah! no; — the voices of the dead Sound like a... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must u>e but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back...Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, " ia new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Alt! no;— the voices of the dead Sound... | |
| 1822 - 440 pages
...days more blest? Must me but blush ?— Our fathers hli-ii. Earth! vender back from out thy breaet A remnant of our Spartan dead ' Of the three hundred grant but three, To make anew Thermopylae! What, silent still! andsilent all ' Ah ' no ;— the voices of the dead. Souud like... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must vie but weep o'er days more blest? Must ice but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back...Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no ;— the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1823 - 786 pages
...nobler to live the brute bondman of thee, Than to sully e'en chains by a struggle like tbis. ON GREECE. Of the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae .Don Jua». SLOW sets the sun ; his ray serene He throws upon a lovely scene ; Blest scene ! where... | |
| Europe - 1823 - 784 pages
...nobler to live the brute bondman of thee, Than to sully e'en chains by a struggle like this. ON GREECE. Of the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. Don Juan. SLOW sets the sun ; his ray serene He throws upon a lovely scene ; Blest scene ! where once,... | |
| Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth !...Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? , Ah ! no : — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one... | |
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