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" The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! "
The Garland of Poetry for the Young: A Selection in Four Parts - Page 227
by Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1868
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Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 15

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. 2. The Scian(2) and the Teian muse,(3) The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the...further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." (4) (1) [The poets of the fourteenth century— Dante, &c.] l2) [Homer.] (3) [Anacreon.] (4) The vwoi...
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The English Orator: a Selection of Pieces for Reading & Recitation

James Hedderwick - Oratory - 1833 - 232 pages
...sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet; But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west Than your sires' " Islands of the Bless'd." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sire's " Islands of the blest." The mountains look on Marathon— I dream'd that Greece might still...
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Principles of elocution

William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo farther west « Than your sires' " Islands of the Blest." The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon...
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born...
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The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion, Music & Romance

Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...flung-by means. Sleep well, aveugcd young duke, and fair boy -king, 194 AN HISTORIC BATTLE-GROUND. Tie mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on...musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might yet be free. Dox JUAIT. The breakfast party at the Hotel d'Angleterre, of Athena, on a bright morning...
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The Cambridge University Magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1

English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...Delos rose, and Phcebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself...
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Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece

Henry Alford - Greek poetry - 1841 - 272 pages
...sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. " ' The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...further West Than your sires' Islands of the Blest. "' Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! We will not think of themes like these; It made Anacreon's...
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Lord Byron's Select Works: Consisting of Cain ... Hours of Idleness; English ...

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 380 pages
...place of hirth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' " Islands of the Ble: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone, f I dream'd that Greece might still he free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem...
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Book of the Poets: The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth Century

American poetry - 1862 - 512 pages
...Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found...birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Th« mountains look ou Marathon — And Marathon looks on the sea ; And musing there an hour alone,...
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