You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave, — Think ye he meant them for a slave? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Pagina 941821Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1872 - 900 pagina’s
...? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine 1 We will not think of themes like these 1 It made Anacreou's th waving wood ; And ancient towers crown his brow,...So both, a safety from the wind In mutual depende MiltiaJes I 464 POEMS OF PATRIOTISM AND FREEDOM. 465 Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1872 - 608 pagina’s
...think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon'e song divine: He served — but served Pulycrates— A tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least,...freedom's best and bravest friend; That tyrant was M iltlodcs ! Oh ! that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1872 - 596 pagina’s
...letters Cadmus gave — Think ye be meant them for a suive ? Fill high the bowl with Samlan wine; We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polycratee — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of... | |
| Casket - 1873 - 912 pagina’s
...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave'.' Fill hish the bowl with Samian wine! We will | - frienil; That tyrant was Miltiades! Oh ! that the present hour would leod Another despot of the kind... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1873 - 906 pagina’s
...meant them for a slave ? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine I We will not think of themes like these I That brought I 465 Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind. Fill high the bowl with Samian... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1873 - 404 pagina’s
...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 11. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's...masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. 12. Tlio tyrant of the Chersonese Waa freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades... | |
| 1873 - 520 pagina’s
...interests of freedom ; and, of Bismarck's policy at large, he was much disposed to say with the poet — " The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! Would that the present hour would lend Another tyrant of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure... | |
| William Pembroke Fetridge - 1874 - 666 pagina’s
...m-ide Anacrcon's song divine ; He served— -but served Polycratcs — A tyrant; but our masters tlmn Were still, at least, our countrymen. "The tyrant...That tyrant was Miltiades! Oh ! that the present hour could lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his ivtre sure to bind. " Fill high the bowl... | |
| William Pembroke Fetridge - 1874 - 688 pagina’s
...think of themes like the-«! It made Anacreon'a song divine ; lie served— but served Polycrateg— A tyrant; but our masters then Were still, at least,...our countrymen. "The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom1 s beft and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miitiades ! Oh ! that the present hour could lend... | |
| 1875 - 592 pagina’s
...young, though no child could be more greedy of knowledge than I was. When I read in Byron's ode — The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades — and so on, I did not want a scientific account of the meaning of the word tyrant ; and if my mind... | |
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