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" 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? and silent all? Ah! no — the voices of the dead Sound like... "
The complete works of lord Byron with a biogr. and critical notice by J. W. Lake - Page 183
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with life

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 586 pages
...the Canasies.— J». Must we but weep o'er days more blest V Must «,e bnt blush ? — our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant...our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but throo, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of...
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The practical elocutionist

Conrad Hume Pinches - 1860 - 480 pages
...we but blush ?—Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast What! silent still,—and silent all! Ah! no—the voices of the dead Sound...living head, " But one arise,—we come, we come! " 'Tis but the living who are dumb." In vain—in vain ! strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth, render back from out thy breast J^ remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred...Thermopylae ! What, silent still ! and silent all ? Ah, no ; the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head,...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...sing, suffuse my face ; For what is left the poet here ? For Greeks a blush — for Greece a tear. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant...Thermopylae ! What ! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah, no ! — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...— for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er d«ys more blest 1 Must we but blush 1 — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant...three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still 1 and silent all 1 Ah i no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer,...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...blush — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed ? Must we but blush ? Our fathers bled. Earth, render back from out thy breast A remnant...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae, f • Salamis is an island off the coast of Attica, near which the Persian fleet, during the invasion...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with illustr. by K. Halswelle

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...— for Greece a tear. t. Must we but weep o'er days more blest? Must we but blush? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant...Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylse ! 8. What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like...
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The advanced reader

Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...blush—for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must ice but blush ?—Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae I What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah! no; the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's...
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A Pocket Guide to Greece

United States. Armed Forces Information and Education Division - 1953 - 100 pages
...£ E AN Greet soldiers serve in NA TO and with UN forces in Korea. 46 THE GREEK SOLDIER AND HIS ARMY "Earth, render back from out thy breast A remnant...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae." — Lord Byron The Greek soldier fought with United Nations forces in Korea. From 1946 until Korea...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 8

English periodicals - 1880 - 1068 pages
...Hear now but these, out of his whole heart : — ' What, — silent yet ? and silent all ? Ah no, the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one, arise — we come — we come : " — 'Tis but the living who are dumb.' Resurrection, this, you see...
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