 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 - Page 941821Full view - About this book
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Cadmus gave6 — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ; It made Anacreon's...best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! O ! that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...the blood of Scio's vine ! — Hark ! rising to the ignoble call, How answers each bold bacchanal ! The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend : That tyrant was Miltiades ! 0 that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind 1 Such chains as his were sure to bind.... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1852 - 398 pages
...SON OF CIMON. HIS BATTLE OF MARATHON, CAMPAIGNS, CHARACTER, A.ND CONDUCT. A tyrant ! But our tyrants then "Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and dearest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades.— THE ISLES OF GREECE. THUS sang, in his resonant and... | |
 | Charles Rann Kennedy - 1853 - 168 pages
...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 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. àcrirerois epevyófíevov 8ve\\aís KuirireSov Kv\ívSerai. Н/нirеs rU, yqyeves irиХш/ш 'PoSov.... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...served, but served Polycrates, A tyrant : but our masters then Were still at least our countrymen. 11. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend : That tyrant was Miltiades ! O ! that the present hour would lend Another + despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1853 - 122 pages
...fined, and being unable to pay the fine, is thrown into prison, where he dies of his wound.* BC 489. ' The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend : That tyrant was Miltiades,' &C. &C. BYHON'S lales of Greece. THEMISTOCLKS AND ARISTIDES. 41 ' Thus perished Miltiades, the victor... | |
 | 1854 - 456 pages
...Cadmus gave, — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's...best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! O, that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! . Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 pages
...meant them for a slave ? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ; We will not think of themes like these I It made Anacreon's song divine : He served— but...best and bravest friend; That tyrant was Miltiades I Oh I that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind I Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? ll. 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. U. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades !... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 pages
...high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's songs divine : He served — but served Polycrates — A...our masters then Were still at least our countrymen. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! On Suli's rocks and Parga's shore. Exists the remnant of a line... | |
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