| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and 1 May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like,...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! BYRON 99. Genius. WHAT is genius? 'Tis a flame Kindling all the human frame ; . 'Tis a ray that lights... | |
| John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 pages
...apostrophe in the chorus of Sophocles' Ajax, thus imitated by Lord Byron : — Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I...mutual murmurs sweep ; There swan-like let me sing aud die ! On x hill to the NE of the Peninsula on which the temple stands are extensive vestiges of... | |
| George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steepWhere nothing save the waves and I, May hear jur mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — KEATS FROM "ISABEL FAIR Isabel, poor simple Isabel ! Lorenzo, a young palmer in love's eye I They... | |
| 1855 - 458 pages
...Our virgins dance beneath the shade,— I see their glorious black eyes shine ; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and...ne'er be mine, — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY. — Wordsuortk. " WHY, William, on that old gray stone, Thus for the length... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...Our virgins dance beneath vthe shade,— I see their glorious black eyes shine ; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and...ne'er be mine, — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY. — Wordsworth. " WHY, William, on that old gray stone. Thus for the length... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 442 pages
...dwells ; But Turkish force and Latin fraud Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! • BYRON 99. Genius. WHAT is genius ? 'Tis a flame Kindling all the human frame ; 'Tis a ray that... | |
| John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! 81. DESCRIPTION OF TriE MINSTREL. THE wight, whose tale these artless lines unfold, Was all the offspring... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...shine; Place me on Sunium's marbled steep,— Where nothing, save the waves and I May hear our mutal murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and...ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! THE LOUD OF BURLEIGH. IN her ear he whispers gaily BYRON. " If my heart by signs can tell, Maiden... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...the hurning tear-drop laves, To think such hreasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marhled steep, — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May...let me sing and die ; A land of slaves shall ne'er he mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! 1. Meaning of hurnmg f V. Explain the allusions to Deha... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I,...ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! DON GARZlA. BY ROGERS. AMONG those awful forms, in elder time Assembled, and through many an after-age... | |
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