 The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse,...  The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ... - Page 120by William Draper Swan - 1845 - 484 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 768 pages
...the same word or words emphatically. 1. " Restore him, restore him if you can, from the dead." 8. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung — Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set. — BYRON. 0 t lion... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1855 - 506 pages
...Hungary, and all the centre of Europe, which had come to exceed £3,000,000 of riporn from Britain. " The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose and Phœbus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet. But all except their sun is set."*... | |
 | 1833 - 632 pages
...from anarchy and confusion ; hut in regard to the others, the traveller is ready to exclaim, " The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning...loved and sung; Where grew the arts of war and peace ; Whence Delos rose, and Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is... | |
 | P. A. Fitzgerald - Elocution - 1855 - 296 pages
...o'er a warrior's tomb ! DEGENERACY OF GREECE. LORD BTRON. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece I Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Pkebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except th«ir sun, is set. The mountains look... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1856 - 466 pages
...and Fame's ; One of the few, the immortal names. That were not born to die. LXVII.— HYMX ON MODERN GREECE.— Byron. THE isles of Greece! the isles of...The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the lame your shores refuse Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds, which echo farther west Than... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 282 pages
...tree which guards its darkness from the day, Waves o'er a warrior's tomb ! DEGENERACY OF GREECE. LORD BYRON. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece !...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed... | |
 | Elocution - 1867 - 288 pages
...o'er a warrior's tomb ! DEGENERACY OF GREECE. LORD BYRON. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece I Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the...sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except th«ir sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there... | |
 | Elocution - 1856 - 286 pages
...tree which guards its darkness from the day, Waves o'er a warrior's tomb ! DEGENERACY OF GREECE. LORD BYRON. The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece !...the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phrebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look... | |
 | Barbara Jelavich - History - 1983 - 436 pages
...between ancient and modern Greece are some verses of his that were written before the revolution: The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning...gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I'd dream'd... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...Don Juan, "Canto the Third" (1821), between stanzas 86 and 87. The first stanza (of sixteen): "The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece! / Where burning...gilds them yet, / But all, except their Sun, is set." 17.2231-32 (734:28). the land of promise Specifically, Canaan (see 7. 106 1n); figuratively, that better... | |
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