AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then... Janus; or, The Edinburgh literary almanach - Page 153by Janus - 1826Full view - About this book
| Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...1S23, and expired in the moment of rintory. His last words were — " To die for liberty if a pltmmrt and not a pain."] At midnight, in his guarded tent,...at his power; In dreams, through camp and court, he boru The trophies of a conqueror; In dreams his song of triumph heard; Then wore his monarch's signet... | |
| Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...sterling. A chambermaid, whose lip and eye, And cheek, and brown hair, bright and curling, MARCO BOZZARIS. AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming...the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, In dreams his song of triumph heard ; Then wore his monarch's signet ring : Then press'd that monarch's... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1830 - 360 pages
...considerable practical moment, we subjoin the following extract for the purpose of further explanation. 1. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming...suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, thro' camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror; In dreams his song of triumph heard ; *... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1830 - 472 pages
...Platcea, and expired in the moment of victory. His last words were, " To die for liberty is a pleasure, not a pain." At midnight in his guarded tent, The...the hour, When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, In dreams his song of triumph heard,— Then wore his monarch's signet ring,— Then pressed that monarch's... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1830 - 364 pages
...moment, we subjoin the following extract for the purpose of further explanation. 1. At midnight, in hie guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour, When...suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, thro' camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror; In dreams his song of triumph heard ; *... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 360 pages
...considerable practical moment, we subjoin the following extract for the purpose of further explanation. 1. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming...suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, thro' camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror; In dreams his song of triumph heard ; Then... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Elocution - 1832 - 356 pages
...considerable practical moment, we subjoin the following extract for the purpose of further explanation. 1. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming...suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power; In dreams, thro' camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror; In dreams his song of triumph heard; Then... | |
| 1835 - 842 pages
...of lyric vigor. We are introduced, first, to the Turk who dreams, at midnight, in his guarded tent, of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power — He is represented as revelling in the visions of ambition. In dreams through camp and court he... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...GREECE.—Halleck. [He fell in an attack upon the Turkish Camp at Laspi, the site of the ancient Plataea, August 20, 1823, and expired in the moment of victory....Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble in his power; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his... | |
| Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...Because I may not stain with grief The death song of an Indian chief." XI. Marco Bozzaris. — HALLKCH. At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in supplianoe bent, Should tremble at his power : SELECTIONS FOR PRACTICE. 217 In dreams, through camp... | |
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