The works of lord Byron, Volume 1 |
From inside the book
Page 83
... lost , Yet with smooth smile his tyrant can accost , And wield the slavish sickle , not the sword : Ah ! Greece ! they love thee least who owe thee most ; Their birth , their blood , and that sublime record Of hero sires , who shame thy ...
... lost , Yet with smooth smile his tyrant can accost , And wield the slavish sickle , not the sword : Ah ! Greece ! they love thee least who owe thee most ; Their birth , their blood , and that sublime record Of hero sires , who shame thy ...
Page 96
... lost as they are , they yet feel on this occasion - thus may Lord Elgin boast of having ruin- ed Athens An Italian painter of the first eminence , named Lu- sieri , is the agent of devastation ; and like the Greek finder of Ver- res in ...
... lost as they are , they yet feel on this occasion - thus may Lord Elgin boast of having ruin- ed Athens An Italian painter of the first eminence , named Lu- sieri , is the agent of devastation ; and like the Greek finder of Ver- res in ...
Page 114
... lost their hope , though they are now more divided in opinion on the subject of their probable deliverers . Religion recommends the Russians ; but they have twice been de- ceived and abandoned by that power , and the dreadful lesson ...
... lost their hope , though they are now more divided in opinion on the subject of their probable deliverers . Religion recommends the Russians ; but they have twice been de- ceived and abandoned by that power , and the dreadful lesson ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Albanian Ali Pacha amongst ancient Athens beauty behold beneath blood Boccaccio bosom breast breath brow Cæsar CANTO Childe Harold Childe Harold's Pilgrimage church Cicero Constantinople dark deem'd doth dust earth Egeria fair fame fate feel Ficus Ruminalis foes gaze glory gondoliers Greece Greek hand hath heart heaven hills honour hope hour immortal Italian Italy lake land light line last live Lord mind mortal mountains never o'er once pass Petrarch plain poet Pouqueville rock Romaic Roman Rome ruin scene shore sigh smile song soul spot Stanza Storia Tasso tears temple thee thine things thou thought tion tomb triumph Turks tyrants Venetians Venice walls waves wolf ἀπὸ δὲν διὰ εἶναι εἰς εἰς τὴν ἐν καὶ κὴ μὲ νὰ σᾶς σε τὰ τὰς τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τῶν ὡς