 | William Linwood - 1846 - 372 sider
...free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? Eyron. LIX. O MARIS lonii crcbris freta consita terris ! Qua citharam Sapphus movit iniquus amor... | |
 | William Linwood - 1846 - 340 sider
...free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships...lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? Hyron. ïsles of O MARIS lonii crebris fréta consita terris ! Qua citharam Sapphus movit iniquus... | |
 | 1846 - 436 sider
...free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships,...is tuneless now, — The heroic bosom beats no more ! 26 THE ISLES OF GREECE. And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'T is... | |
 | Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 sider
...grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which lookso'ersea-bornSalamis; And ships by thousands lay below. And men in nations,...break of day, And when the sun set where were they? Anthol. Oxon. p. 100. INSI I..K IN Plurima in JEgeo nitet insula plurima Grsecia erat somnis libera... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 sider
...free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships,...thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! * Fox— Pitt— Burke. 2120 227 He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where... | |
 | Laman Blanchard - 1846 - 416 sider
...remember having heard of his name ; and as for the fashionable publishers that besieged his doors, " He counted them at break of day ; And when the sun set, where were they 1 " It could not be much more than a twelvemonth or so from the day on which we met him cantering,... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1846 - 1116 sider
...LONDON: HENRY COLRURN, PUBLISHER; LONDON; HARRISON AND CO., , 1 ] \ it;.-, IT. MiRTIN's I \\K. ALROY. * And where art thou, My Country ? On thy voiceless shore, The heroic lay is silent now ; The heroic bosom beats no more. And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands... | |
 | 1846 - 406 sider
...the destitute ? What provisions for the needy, either in mind or body ? Alas, not one — not one : " The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more." I had a theme before me, in comparison with which the splendors of the boasted Parthenon were tame,... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 568 sider
...Strymon : Such as own'd No god till now, awe-struck, with manya prayer * A king »ate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships,...thousands, lay below. And men in nations ; — all were bis ! He counted them at brenk of day — And when the sun let, where were they 1 74 75 Adored the... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 562 sider
...now, awe-struck, with many a prayer s A kins sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sen-born Salamia; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his '. He counted them at brenk of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? 74 AESCHYLUS. Adored the earth and sky. When... | |
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The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks... 
