 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...The associating harmonizing energy of the poetic faculty blends all the elements in perfect union:— "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 Persian's... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persians'... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest."* 3. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | James Bell Forsyth - 1861 - 216 pages
...subdue Greece were made within a few miles' distance from the spot where I was then standing: — " The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea, And musing there an hour alone, I dream' d that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | John Connery - 1861 - 416 pages
...the fame your shores refuse ; Their place of birth alone is mute, To sounds which echo further west The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persian's... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." 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 Persian's... | |
 | Christopher Cooke - 1864 - 330 pages
...the vicinity ; for now Byron's stanza seems more than ever applicable to this memorable plain : — 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 Persian's... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...place of hirth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest" The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1864 - 434 pages
...is heard in common conversation and description, and in moral reflection, or calm reasoning ; as, 1. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I thought that Greece might still be free ; For, standing on the Persian's... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...491. Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. Canto il\. Stanza 86. v. 1. 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. Canto lli. Stanza 86. v. 3.... | |
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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. 
