 | Plantagenet - 1835 - 950 pages
...terrible fate, withered by some superhuman curse. ****** ****** CHAPTER II. You have the Pyrrhic dance aa yet, — Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one '. You have the letters Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ! Byron.... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...arise,—we come, we come!" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain—in vain: strike other chords; Fill high the cup with Samian wine! Leave battles...gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one ? You have the letters Cadmus gave— Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Fill... | |
 | sir Grenville Temple Temple (10th bart.) - 1836 - 628 pages
...was the Chian, and the best of the Chian that called Arvisium ; neither is Byron forgetful of it : " Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine !" On the morning of the 18th, as we were beating up the channel of Tenedos we observed an English... | |
 | Sir Grenville Temple (10th bart.) - Greece - 1836 - 332 pages
...was the Chian, and the best of the Chian that called Arvisium ; neither is Byron forgetful of it: " Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine !" On the morning of the 18th, as we were beating up the channel of Tenedos we observed an English... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...— we come, we come !" Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! Leave battles...Turkish hordes, And shed the blood of Scio's vine I Hark ! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance... | |
 | William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...answer, " Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! " 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain, — in vain ; strike other chorda ;...And shed the blood of Scio's vine ! Hark ! rising to thf ignoble call — How answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is... | |
 | American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...vain: strike other chords; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic...phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave? Fill... | |
 | American poetry - 1842 - 504 pages
...— we come, we come!" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup with Samian wine ! Leave battles to the Turkish hordes, You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget... | |
 | 1909 - 844 pages
...as cause or effect, is amongst the most ominous and the most disheartening symptoms of ths hour. We Have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? We do not even dance ourselves, but pay others to do it for us. SHELLEY. « Shelley is the poet of... | |
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You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet; Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave— Think ye he meant them for a slave? 
