| Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...days more blest ? Must we but blush ? Our father's bled ! Earth ! render back from out thy breast, What, silent still! and silent all ? Ah! no, the voices...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise—we come, we come !'' 'Tis but the living who are dumb. In vain—in vain: strike other... | |
| P. A. Fitzgerald - 1855 - 296 pages
...the poet here f For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a ten. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed f Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled; Earth !...from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead I Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! Sound like a di&taut torrent's fall,... | |
| 1855 - 592 pages
...Davenant, of Toplady and of Wilberforce, from being crushed by the stealthy involutions of Puseyism. " Of the three hundred grant but three, to make a new Thermopylae." But a brave heart, wedded to a competent hand, and a sound head, is not found to save her. If prophecy... | |
| 1856 - 286 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear! Must we but weep o'er days more blessed? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled ; Earth !...Thermopylae ! What ! silent still ? and silent all 1 Ah ! no ; the voices of the dead Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living... | |
| 1856 - 282 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear! Must we but weep o'er days more blessed? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled; Earth !...hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise — we come,... | |
| 1867 - 288 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks a blush, — for Greece a tear. Must we but weep o'er days more blessed f Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled; Earth !...hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! Sound like a distant torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise — we come,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...Three Hundred grant hut three, To make a new Thermopylae 1 What, silent still ! and silent all I Ah I no — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise — we come, we come !" . Tis hut the living who are dumh. In vain — in vain : strike... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1857 - 444 pages
...poet here ? — For Greeks, a blush ! — for Greece, a tear ! Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers BLED ! Earth !...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one arise, — we come, we come ! " — 'T is but the living who are dumb. In vain ! in vain !... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...the poet here ? For Greeks a blush— for Greece a tear. 7. Must we but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ?— Our fathers bled. Earth ! render...hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae ! s. What, silent still ? and silent all ? Ah ! no ; — the voices of the dead Sound like a distant... | |
| 1880 - 1068 pages
...sixteen of him in his play. Hear now but these, out of his whole heart : — ' What, — silent yet ? and silent all ? Ah no, the voices of the dead Sound...torrent's fall, And answer, " Let one living head, But one, arise — we come — we come : " — 'Tis but the living who are dumb.' Resurrection, this,... | |
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