 | David Swing - 1874 - 300 páginas
...The earthquake voice of victory, To thee the breath of life ; The sword, the scepter, and that eway, Which man seemed made but to obey, Wherewith renown was rife, All quell'd! Dark Spirit, what must be The madness of thy memory ! But the memory of that life just ended... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 páginas
...the strife ; The earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life ; The sword, the scepter, and that sway Which man seemed made but to obey, Wherewith...desolate ! The victor overthrown ! The arbiter of others' fute A suppliant fur his own ! Is it some yet imperial hope, That with such change can calmly cope... | |
 | Imperial pocket reader - 1878 - 202 páginas
...vanity, The rapture of the strife — The earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life ; The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man seemed...rife — All quelled ! — Dark Spirit ! what must 1»3 The madness of thy memory ? The Desolator desolate ! The Victor overthrown ! The arbiter of other's... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 456 páginas
...[MS. " but do not hide Once more that secret germ of pride, Which erst yon gifted bard espied."! * [" The Desolator desolate ! The Victor overthrown ! The Arbiter of others' fate A Suppliant for his own I Is it some yet imperial hope, That with such change can calmly cope ( Or dread of death alone? To... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 404 páginas
...more that secret germ of pride, Which erst yon gifted bard espied."] 1 [" The Desolator desolate 1 The Victor overthrown ! The Arbiter of others' fate A Suppliant for his own I Is it some yet imperial hope, That with such change can calmly cops ? Or dread of death alone ? To... | |
 | 1881 - 318 páginas
...the strife — The earthquake-voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life ; The sword, the scepter, and that sway Which man seemed made but to obey, Wherewith...spirit ! what must be The madness of thy memory ! " The Dcsolator desolate ! The Victor overthrown ! The Arbiter of others' fate A suppliant for his own !... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 800 páginas
...sceptre, and that sway Which man seem'd made but to obey, Wherewith renown was rife — All quell'd !— et, Some say, they find it so to meet ; I know not that — I would have give 1 The Victor overthrown ! The Arbiter of others' fate A Suppliant for his own ! Is it some yet imperial... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 páginas
...vanity, The rapture of the strife — The earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life ; The sword, the sceptre, and that sway Which man seemed made but to obey, Wherewith renown was rife — NAPOLEON AT WATERLOO. All quelled ! — Dark Spirit ! what must be The madness of thy memory !... | |
 | Henry Alford - 1889 - 364 páginas
...can we forget that other notable example with which our early days were conversant, when We saw — r "The desolator desolate, The victor overthrown ; The arbiter of others' fate A suppliant for his own ! " And that which God writes in large on the world's history, visible from the ends of the earth,... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1891 - 478 páginas
...strife, The earthquake voice of Victory, To thee the breath of life ; The sword, the sceptre, and the sway Which man seemed made but to obey, Wherewith renown was rife — All quell'd !— Dark Spirit ! — what must be The madness of thy memory? LORD BYRON, Ode to Napoleon.... | |
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Is it some yet imperial hope , That with such change can calmly cope ? Or dread of death alone ? To die a prince — or live a slave — Thy choice is most ignobly brave ! VI. 
