 | 1859 - 712 páginas
...day might have been addressed to the nation of old : " You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where has the Pyrrhic phalanx gone — Of two such lessons why forget The nobler and the manlier one." Yes, Greek civilization was a failure. Bright and beautiful and exquisitely proportioned as it was,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 páginas
...— we come, we come !" 'Tig but the living who are dumb. In rain — in vain ; strike other chorda ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! Leave battles to the Turkish hnrdes, And shed the blood of Scio's vino.! Hark ! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1860 - 476 páginas
...living head, " But one arise,—we come, we come! " 'Tis but the living who are dumb." In vain—in vain ! strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with...phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The noblier and the manlier one. You have the letters Cadmus gave— Think ye he meant them for a slave... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 páginas
...answer, " Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come ! " 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain ; strike other chords ; Fill high...lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one 2 You have the letters Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave 1 Fill high the bowl with... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 páginas
...answer, "Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. 9. In vain — in vain; strike other chords} Fill high...Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine ! fiark! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold Bacchanal ! 10. You have the Pyrrhic... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1863 - 646 páginas
...degeneracy which would justly bring down upon us the rebuke deserved by the modern Greeks : — Ye have the Pyrrhic dance as yet : Where is the Pyrrhic...lessons why forget The nobler and the manlier one ? And here we would leave the matter. We have an unlimited confidence in the charity which first measures... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1863 - 266 páginas
...upon.' 10. The Comparative is used when two things are compared, the Superlative when more than two. Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one ? But the rule is not strictly adhered to. Writers and speakers continually use the superlative in... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1864 - 448 páginas
...to have come near to the old military dance of Greece ; still retained among the Ionian islanders. " You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic...lessons why forget The nobler and the manlier one? " Don Jmm. The whole of the description of this rustic wedding is highly interesting as illustrative... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1865 - 480 páginas
...Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! " 'T is but the living who are dumb. 9. In vain — in vain ; strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine I Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Seio's vine ! Hark! rising to the ignoble... | |
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