 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1824 - 234 pages
...he, the Champion and the Child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ? Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones? Whose table earth—whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. Sigh to behold... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1824 - 648 pages
...the Champion and the Child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ? 50 Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones ? Whose table earth—whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. Sigh to behold... | |
 | Lady Lucy Clementina Davies - 1872 - 330 pages
...going on around her, to accept this chance; but as I had always felt a great desire to see the hero " Whose game was empire, and whose stakes were thrones,...Whose table earth—whose dice were human bones," I accompanied my father back to the Tuileries. When we arrived there, the Emperor was addressing the... | |
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Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones? Whose table earth—whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. 