 You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave, — Think ye he meant them for a slave?  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 941821Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...meant them for a slave ? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these I It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but...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... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...Cadmus gave; Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 11. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these : It made Anacreon's...masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. 12. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was Freedom's best and bravest friend*; That tyrant was Miltiades*... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1859 - 344 pages
...upon the Rialto, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England." SHAKSI - — Merchant of Venici. t The tyrant of the Chersonese Was Freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades. BTHON. at the mouths of the Nile, which was so called from its resemblance to the fourth letter of... | |
 | 1859 - 852 pages
...Machiavelli wrote and thought of the Medici as a spirited Greek might have thought of Miltiades. •' The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend, That tyrant wa» Miltiades. Oh ! that the present hour would lend Another tyrant of that kind — Such chaina aa... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...then started wild And fled disorder'd." — ^SCHYLUS. 11. Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's...masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. 12. The tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiades... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's...song divine : He served — but served Polycrates f — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of the Chersonese... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave 1 Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's song divine : He served — but served Polyerates — A tyrant ; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen. The tyrant of... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...letters Cadmus gave— Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine! We will not think of themes like these! It made Anacreon's song divine: He served—but served Polycrates— A tyrant; but our masters then Were still, at least, our countrymen.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...Cadmus gave — Think ye he meant them for a slave ? Fill high the bowl with Samian wine ! We will not think of themes like these ! It made Anacreon's...the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; Tltat tyrant was Miltiades ! Oh ! that the present hour would lend Another despot of the kind ! Such... | |
 | Philip Smith - History, Ancient - 1864 - 620 pages
...recur to their relations to the empire. A citizen of a free state might be the tyrant of a colony : — "The Tyrant of the Chersonese Was freedom's best and bravest friend ; That tyrant was Miltiodcs ! " The most splendid and successful of these Asiatic Tyrants, rivalling the fame of Periander,... | |
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