| sir Grenville Temple Temple (10th bart.) - 1836 - 628 páginas
...monarch took his station to behold the naval action between his fleet and that of the Greeks. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis...lay below, And men, in nations ; — all were his. Off the cynosure point of Salamis is the island of Lipso-Kalaat, ( Psyttalia,) and to the west the... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...on the sea; And nursing there an hour alone, A king sat on the rocky brow And men in nations;—all were his! He counted them at break of day— And when the sun set where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis, And ships, by thousands,... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 páginas
...might still be free; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis...break of day — And when the sun set where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country ? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless... | |
| William Martin - 1838 - 368 páginas
...Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born...break of day, — And when the sun set where were they T And where are they ! and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless... | |
| John William Donaldson - 1838 - 140 páginas
...more quotation, and I shall dismiss the subject of retrenchment: A king sat on the rocky brow, That 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 ?... | |
| Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 páginas
...grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sat on the rocky brow, Which looks o'er sea-born Salamia, And ships, by thousands, lay below, And men in nations...break of day — And when the sun set, where were they ? And where are they ? and where art thou, My country ? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless... | |
| 1840 - 528 páginas
...might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis...thousands, lay below, And men in nations ; — all were his I He counted them at break of day — And when the sun set where were they? — BYRON. Into LATIN ALCAICS... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 498 páginas
...Second Persian Invasion. A king sat on the rocky brow That looks o'er sea-girt Salamis, And ships in thousands lay below, And men in nations — all were...break of day, And when the sun set — where were they ? BYRON. S. Sar'casms, s. bitter taunts, severe Jests. 7. Ten 'able, a. that may be held or kept. 8.... | |
| 1841 - 578 páginas
...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^niet him cantering,... | |
| 1862 - 512 páginas
...still be free ; For, standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis...of day — And when the sun set, where were they? And where are they? and where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless... | |
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