That this is all remains of thee ? Approach, thou craven crouching slave : Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave, Oh, servile offspring of the free ! Pronounce what sea, what shore is this ? The gulf, the rock of Salamis... English Grammar for the Use of Schools - Page 149by Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1872Full view - About this book
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pages
...more its cherish 'd earth ! Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave Was Freedom's home, or Glory's grave ! Shrine of the...Approach, thou craven crouching slave : Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave, Oh servile offspring of the free — Pronounce... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...more its cherish'd eartli ! Clime of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land, from plain to mountain-cave, Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave ! Shrine of the...Approach, thou craven crouching slave : Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave, Oh servile offspring of the free — Pronounce... | |
| M Joseph Denison - 1849 - 276 pages
...mutual murmurs creep, " There, swan-like, let me sing and die." llijrvn . " Clime of the unforgotteu brave, " Whose land from plain to mountain cave, " Was freedom's home, or glory's grave." WHEN reflecting o'er Athens, once ocean's fair queen, What dreams of past splendour embellish'd the... | |
| 1886 - 664 pages
...valour's, glory's grave. 0. B. [Surely the last is a misquotation from ' The Giaour ' ofByron :— Whose land from plain to mountain cave Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave.] "HANG SORROW." (7 tt S. i. 8.) After a long silence, caused by other occupations, and not by any means... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...more its cherish'd earth 1 Clime of the tmforgotten brave ! Whose land, from plain to mountain-cave, Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave ! Shrine of the...it be, That this is all remains of thee ? Approach, thon craven crouching slave : Say, is not this ThermopyloB ? These waters blue that round you lave,... | |
| John White - 1850 - 192 pages
...the last syllables of three successive lines correspond in sound, the verse is called a Triplet; as, Clime of the unforgotten brave, Whose land, from plain...mountain cave, Was freedom's home, or glory's grave. A combination of several verses arranged in a particular order, according to the fancy of the poet,... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - 1850 - 318 pages
...the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave Was Freedom's home or Glory's gravel Shrine of the mighty ! can it be, That this is all remains of thee? Approach, thou craven-crouching slave Say, is not this Thcrmopylte? These waters blue that round you lave, Oh servile... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...Pronounce. Story. Monument. Mountains. Compare these adjectices : Brave. Former. Nameless. Mighty. Native. CLIME' of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from...Shrine of the mighty ! can it be, That this is all remains8 of thee ? ANCIENT GREECE. 51 Approach, thou craven crouching slave ; Say, is not this Thermopylse... | |
| John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...and unsung. SCOTT. GREECE. CLIME of the unforgotten brave ! Whose land from plain to mountain-cave Was freedom's home, or glory's grave ! Shrine of the...Approach, thou craven, crouching slave, Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave, 0 servile offspring of the free — Pronounce... | |
| S.G Goodrich - 1851 - 664 pages
...slavery to the Turks : — " Clime of the unforgotten brave! Whose land, from plain to mountain-cave, Was Freedom's home or Glory's grave ! Shrine of the mighty ! can it be That this ia all remains of thee ? Approach, thou craven, crouching slave: Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These... | |
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