 Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain: strike other chords; Fill high the cup with Samian wine! Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine! Hark! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold Bacchanal...  Don Juan: Cantos III, IV, and V. - Page 49by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 218 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1867 - 288 pages
...heroic bosom beats no more 1 And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 5Tou have the Pyrrhic dance as yet* Where is the Pyrrhic...lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one f You have the letters Cadmus gave; Think ye he meant them for a slave f Tis something in the dearth... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...the blood of Scio's vine ! Hark 1 rising to the ignoble call, How answers each bold Bacchanal ? 10. You have the Pyrrhic dance, as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 11. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...the blood of — Scio's vine ! Hark ! rising to the ignoble call, How answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic...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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...the blood of Scio's vine! Hark! rising to the + ignoble call, How answers each bold ^bacchanal! 9. You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is the Pyrrhic...manlier one ? You have the letters Cadmus gave; Think you he meant them for a slave ? 10. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! We will not think of themes... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 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...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? T is something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel, at least, a... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...the blood of Scio's vine ! Hark* ! rising to the ignoble call', How answers each bold bacchanalM 10. You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic...letters Cadmus gave; Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 11. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these : It made Anacreon's... | |
 | 1858 - 398 pages
...laboratory's dust. We want the ruder and robuster efforts ; we want the more timid and refined attempts. " Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one ?" Eloquence will still frequent the bar, the pulpit, and the stage, unmindful of classic ground and... | |
 | 1859 - 712 pages
...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,... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...the blood of Scio's vine ! Hark ! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet — Where is the...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; TJiat tyrant was Miltiades !... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...blood of Scio's vine ! fiark! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold Bacchanal ! 10. You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave? * " Deep were the groans of Xerxes, when he saw This havoc ; for his seat, a lofty mound Commanding... | |
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