 | Fraternal organizations - 1841 - 478 pages
...MILT1ADES. TRANSLATED KOR TU K ODD FELLOWS' MAtiA/.lNE, FROM THE LATIN OF CORNELIUS NEPOS, BY JW RANSO N. "The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! О ! that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | John Murray, John Murray (Firm) - Greece - 1845 - 510 pages
...— but served Polycrates— A tyrant ; but our masters then "Were still, at least, our countrymen.1 The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and...present hour would lend Another despot of the kind 1 Such chains as his were sure to bind. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! On Suli's rock, and Parga's... | |
 | G. A. Perdicaris - Greece - 1845 - 326 pages
...bride with her long flowing hair, And many a maid from her mother shall tear." When Lord Byron said, " On Suli's rock and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore," he little thought that the creations of his fancy were so soon to be the realities of history. But... | |
 | G. A. Perdicaris - Greece - 1845 - 316 pages
...bride with her long flowing hair, And many a maid from her mother shall tear." When Lord Byron said, " On Suli's rock and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore," he little thought that the creations of his fancy were so soon to be the realities of history. But... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...served — but served Polycrates — A tyrant : but our masters then Were still at least our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend: That tyrant was Miltiades ! O ! that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...nobler and the manlier one ? You have the letters Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave? The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! O that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind.... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! O that the present hour v/ould lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind. Trust not for freedom to the Franks — They have a king who buys and sells. In native swords and native... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...— but served Polycrates — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! O, that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...formal term, SitnroTr,; the accidental equivalent, exactly as Lord Byron uses the English terms : " The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and...the kind ; Such chains as his were sure to bind." This use we cannot but consider superior to Mr. Grote's. Besides we do not think that Despot in its... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...— but served Polycrates — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymea The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and...Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Duric mothers bore : And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own. Trust... | |
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On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own. 
