 Oh, that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore ; And fhere perhaps...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 1101821Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...accidental equivalent, exactly as Lord Byron uses the English terms : " The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was...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
...tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymea The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was...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... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...slavet The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest frianJ ; tyrant was Miltiades ! O that the present hour would 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1849 - 390 pages
...tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. 12. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was...present hour would lend Another despot of the kind I Such chains as his were sure to bind. 13. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! On Suli's rock, and... | |
 | English language - 1851 - 278 pages
...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...as his were sure to bind. Fill high the bowl with San nan wine ! ; On Suli's rock and Perga's shore Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers... | |
 | Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 1342 pages
...future day when fit they will probably be united ; for as sure as we now exist " On Suli's root, — on Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line, Such as the Doric mothers bore." Titraarsh has pronounced the Samian wine as inferior to small-beer ; I can only say that, having none... | |
 | William James Linton - 1851 - 806 pages
...Watson, 3, Queeu's Head Passage, Paternoster-Row, Londou. — No, 33, Aug. 12. THE PATAGONIAN MISSION. ' Exists the remnant of a line ' Such as the Doric mothers bore : ' And there perchance some seed is sown •' The Heraclcidau blood might own '. Byron. LET us be hopeful ! Though... | |
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