| British melodies - 1820 - 280 pages
...Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They too will rather die than shame r For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won. Kear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings, in dusty darkness... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 486 pages
...Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They too will rather die than shame : For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son. Though baffled oft is ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings, in dusty darkness... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1823 - 854 pages
...Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They too will rather die than shame ; For Freedom's battle once begun. Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings in dusky darkness... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1823 - 468 pages
...Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They 'too will rather die than shame ; For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won. 10.5 110 115 120 12.5 Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, .Attest it many a deathless age! While... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They too will rather die than shame : For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding Sire to Son, Though baffled oft is ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings, in dusty darkness... | |
| George Clinton - 1828 - 888 pages
...Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They too will rather die than shame : For, Freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings, in dusty darkness... | |
| J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - 314 pages
...Tyranny shall quake to hear, And leave his sons a hope, a fame, They too will rather die than shame : For Freedom's battle once begun. Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won. Bear witness, Greece, thy living page, Attest it many a deathless age ! While kings, in dusty darkness... | |
| 1849 - 1188 pages
...to earth will rise again. Long and fierce the strife may rage, but truth and liberty will prevail. " For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." Among the elements of permanence in modern civilization, not yet introduced in my discourse, I shall,... | |
| 1831 - 352 pages
...whose might a thousand may be chased by one. Favoured by that aid, the Greek might truly exclaim, — " For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won." " And so shall it be with Greeee !" exclaimed lanthe, as the news of fresh successes reached us, and... | |
| Literary association of the friends of Poland - 442 pages
...on like a consuming fire, smouldering underneath, only to break out again with redoubled ardour. " For Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. " In this manner the sympathies of England will be awakened in behalf of Poland ; the echoes of its... | |
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