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? Poems - Page 674by George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1866 - 719 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1856 - 286 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...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
...answers each bold Bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! Oh... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...answers each bold Bacchanal ? 10. You have the Pyrrhic dance, as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...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
...answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phal'anx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...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... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 pages
...answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! O,... | |
| 1858 - 460 pages
...answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, — Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these I It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polycrates — A tyrant ; but our masters... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...Degenerate into hands like mine ? You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...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
...each bold bacchanalM 10. You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? • Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...answers each bold Bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! Oh... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...answers each bold Baechanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the...Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polyorates — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of... | |
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