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... wall Or knock the breast ; n weak ne , no contempt , Dispraise , or blame ; no hing us well and fair , And what may quiet us in a deal so noble . " JOHN MILTON . LONDON HIN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE STREET , W. from . Ford Bron in un . tina ...
... wall Or knock the breast ; n weak ne , no contempt , Dispraise , or blame ; no hing us well and fair , And what may quiet us in a deal so noble . " JOHN MILTON . LONDON HIN MURRAY , ALBEMARLE STREET , W. from . Ford Bron in un . tina ...
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... wall , Its chambers desolate , and portals foul : Yes , this was once Ambition's airy hall , The Dome of Thought , the Palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack - lustre , eyeless hole , The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit 1 And ...
... wall , Its chambers desolate , and portals foul : Yes , this was once Ambition's airy hall , The Dome of Thought , the Palace of the Soul : Behold through each lack - lustre , eyeless hole , The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit 1 And ...
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... wall is the sole remnant . On another part of the gulf stand the ruins of Nicopolis , built by Augustus in honour of his victory . Last night I was at a Greek marriage ; but this XIII . What ! shall it e'er be said by 36 THE FIRST VISIT ...
... wall is the sole remnant . On another part of the gulf stand the ruins of Nicopolis , built by Augustus in honour of his victory . Last night I was at a Greek marriage ; but this XIII . What ! shall it e'er be said by 36 THE FIRST VISIT ...
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... walls he loved to shield before . XV . Cold is the heart , fair Greece ! that looks on Thee , Nor feels as Lovers o'er the dust they loved ; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defaced , thy mouldering shrines removed By ...
... walls he loved to shield before . XV . Cold is the heart , fair Greece ! that looks on Thee , Nor feels as Lovers o'er the dust they loved ; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defaced , thy mouldering shrines removed By ...
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... walls glisten fair on high : Here dwells the caloyer , nor rude is he , 2 Nor niggard of his cheer ; the passer by Is welcome still ; nor heedless will he flee From hence , if he delight kind Nature's sheen to see . L. Here in the ...
... walls glisten fair on high : Here dwells the caloyer , nor rude is he , 2 Nor niggard of his cheer ; the passer by Is welcome still ; nor heedless will he flee From hence , if he delight kind Nature's sheen to see . L. Here in the ...
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Abydos Acarnania Acropolis Albanian Ali Pacha ancient Argostoli arms arrived Athens beautiful believe beneath Blaquiere canto Captain cause Cephalonia chief Childe Harold coast Colonel Stanhope Committee Constantinople Corinth DEAR death Elgin Marbles England English fame fleet Fletcher friends frigate Gamba gave Genoa Giaour Greece Greek hand hath hear heard heart hills Hobhouse honour hope hour hundred island isle John Murray Kinnaird land letter live look Lord Byron Lord Elgin Lordship Maid of Athens Malta Marbles Mavrocordato Missolonghi Morea mother mountains never night o'er Pacha Pallas parties passed passion Patras Piræus plain poem present Prevesa received ruins sail Salamis Samian wine seems sent ship shore slave smile soul Suliotes tell thee thine things thou thousand to-day Trelawny Turkish Turks vessel wind wish write written Zante
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Page 81 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 89 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime ? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 161 - The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse : Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires'
Page 256 - My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone!
Page 39 - Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow ? By their right arms the conquest must be wrought?
Page 91 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute, Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In color though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 99 - SLOW sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, ^ Along Morea's hills the setting sun ; Not, as in Northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light ! O'er the hushed deep the yellow beam he throws, Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Page 105 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the hues of heaven ; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Page 47 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 95 - Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change. Oh, who can tell? not thou, luxurious slave ! Whose soul would sicken o'er the heaving wave; Not thou, vain lord of wantonness and ease! Whom slumber soothes not...