 Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?  The travellers - Page 215by Tertius T C. Kendrick - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...blush — for Greece a tear. " Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! " What, silent still? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1821 - 232 pages
...a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
...now, The heroic bosom beats no more ! Must rcc but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled ! Earth ! render back from out thy breast...the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thennopylte. What ! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah! no; — the voices of the dead Sound like a... | |
 | England - 1821 - 778 pages
...blush — for Greece a tear. " Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopybe ! « What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must u>e but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, " ia new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Alt! no;— the voices of the dead Sound... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...days more blest? Must me but blush ?— Our fathers hli-ii. Earth! vender back from out thy breaet A remnant of our Spartan dead ' Of the three hundred grant but three, To make anew Thermopylae! What, silent still! andsilent all ' Ah ' no ;— the voices of the dead. Souud like... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...a blush — for Greece a tear. Must vie but weep o'er days more blest? Must ice but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no ;— the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's... | |
 | Europe - 1823 - 784 pages
...nobler to live the brute bondman of thee, Than to sully e'en chains by a struggle like this. ON GREECE. Of the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae. Don Juan. SLOW sets the sun ; his ray serene He throws upon a lovely scene ; Blest scene ! where once,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1823 - 786 pages
...nobler to live the brute bondman of thee, Than to sully e'en chains by a struggle like tbis. ON GREECE. Of the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae .Don Jua». SLOW sets the sun ; his ray serene He throws upon a lovely scene ; Blest scene ! where... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...a blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? , Ah ! no : — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant... | |
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