 | 1854 - 456 pages
...answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, — Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? You have the letters Cadmus gave, — Think ye he...! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polycrates — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1855 - 442 pages
...remnant of our Spartan dead !«• Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ! and silent all ? Ah, no ; the...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave? The tyrant of the Chersonese That tyrant was Miltiades ! O that the present hour would lend Another... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...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 the cup with...! We will not think of themes like these ; It made Anacreon's song divine : The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine ! Hark ! rising to the ignoble call — You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic...! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polycrates — A tyrant : but our masters then Were... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, — Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? You have the letters Cadmus gave, — Think ye he...! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polycrates — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, — Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? You have the letters Cadmus gave, — Think ye he...! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polycrates — ' A tyrant ; but our masters thenv... | |
 | 1856 - 286 pages
...The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is the Pyrrhic...letters Cadmus gave ; Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 'Tis something in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's... | |
 | 1856 - 282 pages
...The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine? You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is the Pyrrhic...letters Cadmus gave ; Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 'Tis something in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel at least a patriot's... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What ! silent still 1 and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead...! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polycrates — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! " — 'T is but the living who are dumb. In vain ! in vain ! —...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells : In native swords, and... | |
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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? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! We will... 
