| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...the blood of Scio's vine ! Hark ! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone 1 Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one ! You have the letters Cadmus gave... | |
| 1851 - 278 pages
...blood of Scio's vine ! Hark ! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold Bacchanal ? CORINTH. You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic...! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's song divine ; He served — but served Polycrates — A tyrant : but our masters then Were... | |
| 1851 - 498 pages
...Olympus and Athos, one feels the full force of Lord Byron's passionate appeal to the Greeks : — " You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet : Where is the Pyrrhic...lessons why forget The nobler and the manlier one 1 " The hospitable Consul invited me to his house this evening, where I found assembled most of the... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...How answers each bold bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx3 gone ? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one ? You have the letters Cadmus gave6 — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1851 - 788 pages
...however, not been altogether inattentive to the changes which Time has wrought in their institutions. They have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? In other words, there is no reason to believe that their cookery or their wines are in any respect... | |
| William Wallace Fyfe - 1851 - 408 pages
...leaping, and racing, which make up the sum of all that remains to us of the antique games: — " We have the Pyrrhic dance as yet: Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? " And any or every day there occurs, from this vantage ground, a sight which honest Allan Ramsay... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 568 pages
...The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? T is something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel, at least, a... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1852 - 570 pages
...The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet ; Where is the Pyrrhic...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 'T is something, in the dearth of fame, Though linked among a fettered race, To feel, at least, a... | |
| Sir George Ferguson Bowen - 1852 - 276 pages
...Olympus and Athos, one feels the full force of Lord Byron's passionate appeal to the Greeks : — " You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet : Where is the Pyrrhic...lessons why forget The nobler and the manlier one ? " The kind and hospitable consul (Mr. Blunt) invited me to his house this evening, where I found... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...battles to the Turkish hordes, Hark ! rising to the ignoble call — How answers each bold Bacchanal ! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic...! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polycrates — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were... | |
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