 | Dawson William Turner - Greece - 1853 - 122 pages
...fined, and being unable to pay the fine, is thrown into prison, where he dies of his wound.* BC 489. ' The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend : That tyrant was Miltiades,' &C. &C. BYHON'S lales of Greece. THEMISTOCLKS AND ARISTIDES. 41 ' Thus perished Miltiades, the victor... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...served, but served Polycrates, A tyrant : but our masters then Were still at least our countrymen. 11. 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 196 pages
...that Hannibal should be conquered. — ARNoLD. It would require a far other pen than mine. — KIRwAN. Oh that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind! — BYRoN. advert but to one passage : — ' I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and some... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...— but served Polycratea — A tyrant : but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and...of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind. 30* BYRON. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! On Suli's rock and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...but served Polycrates — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. U. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and...of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind. 13. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 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.... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 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... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Aegean Islands (Greece and Turkey) - 1854 - 492 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 I Oh I that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind I Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...but served Polycrates — ' A tyrant ; but our masters thenv 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... | |
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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. 
