 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...up a wrong. • Mazeppa. x. They never fail who die In a great cause. Marino Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 2. Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth — whose dice were human hones. The Age of Bronze. St. 3. I loved my countiy, and I hated him. The Vision of Judgment. Ixxxiii.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...treasures up a wrong. Mauppa. x. They never fail who die In a great cause. Marino Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 2. Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones,...Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones. The Age of Bronze. St. 3. I loved my countiy, and I hated him. The Vision of Judgment, buotiii. Sublime... | |
 | Hugh A. Kennedy - Chess - 1876 - 256 pages
...massive and capacious — a fit " palace of the soul " for the mighty player " Whose game was empire, and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones." The floor was strewed with a litter of books and manuscripts ; a marble bust of his son, the Duke of... | |
 | Scotland - 1877 - 812 pages
...Waterloo, there lay Nasom: snug and jolly, while a more tremendons Titan than be who lies under Etna — " Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;...Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones"— was convulsing Europe from Cadiz to Moscow, from Reggio to Hamburg. The reign of Joseph Buonaparte... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...crawl'd of late, Chain'd to the chariot of the chieftain's state ? Yes ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild...dice were human bones? Behold the grand result in you lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. Sigh to behold the eagle's lofty rage Reduced... | |
 | Where, Who - Quotations - 1878 - 186 pages
...Whose flag has braved a thousand years The battle and the breeze. CAMPBELL, Ye Ma/riners of England. Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones,...Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones. BYRON, The Age of Browe. Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 pages
...crawl'd of late, Chain'd to the chariot of the chieftain's state : Yes ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild...dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in you lone isle. And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. Sigh to behold the eagle's lofty rage Reduced... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...the chariot of the chieftain's state ? Yes! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that 's great or little, wise or wild? Whose game was empires,...Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones? A tribute paid to Kosciusko is put with all possible brevity. In Campbell's lines the name is in four... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...crawl'd of late, Chain'd to the chariot of the chieftain's state? Yes ! where is he, the champion and tahle earth — whose dice were human hones? Behold the grand result in you lone isle, And, as thy... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1881 - 486 pages
...of late, Chained to the chariot of the chieftain's state ? 2. Yes, where is he, the champion—and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild...lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. 3. Smile to behold the eagle's lofty rage Reduced to nibble at his narrow cage: Smile to survey the... | |
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Yes ! where is 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... 
