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" Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations — all were his! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where... "
Songs of Freedom - Page 41
by Henry Stephens Salt - 1893 - 345 pages
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Anthologia oxoniensis

William Linwood - College verse - 1846 - 342 pages
...looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships by thousands lay below. And men in nations, — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun...is tuneless now — The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? Eyron. LIX. O MARIS Ionii crebris...
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Poetry for Home and School ...

1846 - 436 pages
...o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day, — And when the...is tuneless now, — The heroic bosom beats no more ! 26 THE ISLES OF GREECE. And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'T is...
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Dolman's magazine [ed. by M.G. Keon and E. Price]., Volume 4

Miles Gerald Keon - 1846 - 608 pages
...Which lookso'ersea-bornSalamis; And ships by thousands lay below. And men in nations, — all were his! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set where were they? Anthol. Oxon. p. 100. INSI I..K IN Plurima in JEgeo nitet insula plurima Grsecia erat somnis libera...
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Sketches from Life, Volume 2

Laman Blanchard - 1846 - 416 pages
...remember having heard of his name ; and as for the fashionable publishers that besieged his doors, " He counted them at break of day ; And when the sun set, where were they 1 " It could not be much more than a twelvemonth or so from the day on which we met him cantering,...
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Contarini Fleming. Alroy. Romances

Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1846 - 1116 pages
...LONDON: HENRY COLRURN, PUBLISHER; LONDON; HARRISON AND CO., , 1 ] \ it;.-, IT. MiRTIN's I \\K. ALROY. * And where art thou, My Country ? On thy voiceless shore, The heroic lay is silent now ; The heroic bosom beats no more. And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands...
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The Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Volume 5

Freemasonry - 1846 - 406 pages
...the destitute ? What provisions for the needy, either in mind or body ? Alas, not one — not one : " The heroic lay is tuneless now, The heroic bosom beats no more." I had a theme before me, in comparison with which the splendors of the boasted Parthenon were tame, and...
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The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book

Hugh Gawthrop - Recitations - 1847 - 184 pages
...o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun...is tuneless now — The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth...
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The Select Poetical Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...sea-born Salamis , And ships, which by thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun...is tuneless now — The heroic bosom beats no more ! And must thy lyre, so long divine, Degenerate into hands like mine ? 'Tis something, in the dearth...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set, where were they 7 And where are they ? and where art thou, My country ? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless...
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Notes on Herodotus: Original and Selected from the Best Commentators

Dawson William Turner - 1848 - 488 pages
...looks o'er sea-born Salamis ; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations : — all were his ! He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they ?" /. »taï тгроо-eßaXtro .... тгпОечч. After the words фьЛос co>v, must be understood...
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