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, But one arise — we come, we come! Littell's Living Age - Page 1491901Full view - About this book
| 1900 - 608 pages
...another magnificent example of Byron's lyrical power in the ' Isles of Greece,' where the two lines, ' Ah, no ! the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...oratorical effects arranged in vigorous ' and telling succession ; ' * upon which it is enough to observe that contemporary efforts at writing war songs... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don Juan (Legendary character) - 1821 - 232 pages
...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 a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! " "Tis but the living who... | |
| English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
...the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thennopylte. 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 But once arise — we come, we come ! 'Tis but the living who are... | |
| Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...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 a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, ConiiiiualttM oj i)un Juan, But one arise, — we come, we come... | |
| England - 1821 - 778 pages
...three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopybe ! « What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " 1л1 ont living head, But one arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tu but the living who arc... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...Of the three hundred grant but three, " ia new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Alt! 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... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...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 a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise,— we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylso ! 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, But one arise — we come, we come ! " 'Tis but the living who are... | |
| Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...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 a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But cue arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are... | |
| George Clinton - Poets, English - 1825 - 826 pages
...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 a distant torrent's fall, But one arise — we come, we come !' 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike... | |
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