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" Must we but blush?— Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah! no;— the voices of the dead Sound... "
A Handbook for Travellers in Greece: Describing the Ionian Islands ... - Page 325
by John Murray (Firm) - 1872 - 505 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 192

1900 - 608 pages
...another magnificent example of Byron's lyrical power in the ' Isles of Greece,' where the two lines, ' Ah, no ! the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall,' drop suddenly into the elegiac strain, into a mournful echo that dwells upon the ear, followed by the...
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Don Juan: Cantos III, IV, and V.

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1821 - 232 pages
...breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; —...one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! " "Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 88

1821 - 676 pages
...breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred, grant but three, To make a new Thennopylte. What ! silent still ? and silent all ? Ah! no; —...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head But once arise — we come, we come ! 'Tis but the living who are dumb." You will doubtless recollect that...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

1821 - 800 pages
...A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! " What, silent still? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; —...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, ConiiiiualttM oj i)un Juan, But one arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb....
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The works of ... lord Byron, Volumes 9-10

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821 - 460 pages
...Of the three hundred grant but three, " ia new Thermopylae! What, silent still? and silent all? Alt! no;— the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...living head, But one arise, — we come, we come! " Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain: strike other chords; Fill high the cup with...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 10

1821 - 778 pages
...A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopybe ! « What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; —...dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " 1л1 ont living head, But one arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tu but the living who arc dumb. " In...
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The Babbler; or, Weekly literary and scientific intelligencer, Volume 1

1822 - 440 pages
...make anew Thermopylae! What, silent still! andsilent all ' Ah ' no ;— the voices of the dead. Souud like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But оле arise— we come, wecome!" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain: strike other...
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Don Juan. Cantos i. to v. [by lord Byron].

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1823 - 258 pages
...breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still? and silent all? Ah ! no ;— the...one living head, But one arise,— we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup...
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The Beauties of Byron,: Consisting of Selections from His Works

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Alfred Howard - 1824 - 226 pages
...breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylso ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; —...one living head, But one arise — we come, we come ! " 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other chords ; Fill high the cup...
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The cabinet; or The selected beauties of literature [ed. by J ..., Volume 1

Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pages
...breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still ? and silent all ? , Ah ! no :...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But cue arise, — we come, we come !" 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain — in vain : strike other...
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