 | 1854 - 456 pages
...— but served Polycrates — A 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 was Miltiades ! O, that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! . Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1854 - 492 pages
...served— but served Polycrates— A 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 was Miltiades I Oh I that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind I Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1854 - 440 pages
...nobler and the manlier one ? You have the letters Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! O that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind.... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...but served Polycrates — ' A tyrant ; but our masters thenv Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! O, that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | John Frost - 1855 - 462 pages
...served — but served Polycrates — A 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 was Miltiades ! O ! that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...— but served Polycrates — A 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 was Miltiades ! O, that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ; It made Anacreon's song divine : The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! O ! that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's hest and hravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades ! 0 ! that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to hind. Fill high the howl with Samian wine ! On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of... | |
 | Darwehd (pseud.) - 1857 - 182 pages
...SEVEN GREAT MEN IN THE YEAR 1856 153 CHARACTER OF DAVID THE GREAT, \ Character 0f gafcrtir % (Swat. " Oh ! that the present hour would lend Another despot...the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to bind." BYRON. BRIGHT and powerful and wonderful as the imperial Sun of the Orient, King David, Israel's "... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's beat and bravest friend; That tyrant was Miltiades 1 Oh 1 that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such chains as his were sure to hind. 13. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! Oil ouli's rock and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant... | |
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On Suli's rock, and Parga's shore, Exists the remnant of a line Such as the Doric mothers bore; And there, perhaps, some seed is sown, The Heracleidan blood might own. 
