 | Barbara Jelavich - History - 1983 - 436 pages
...Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I'd dream'd that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem... | |
 | Malcolm Miles Kelsall - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 234 pages
...own voice is that of a hero challenging the general corruption of the re-established ancien regime: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persian's grave, I could not deem myself a slave. (st. 3 between III. 86 and 87) Here Byron wars in... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...you see. OxBoLi 40 The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung, 41 e mind dreamed that Greece might still be free; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...place of birth alone is mote To sounds which echo further west Than your sires' "Islands of the Blest." TnlM"ng there an hour alone, I dreanVd that Greece might still be free For standing on the Persians'... | |
 | Julius Rowan Raper, Melody L. Enscore, Paige Matthey Bynum - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 222 pages
...from the famous "isles of Greece" lyric that this local bard offers for the lovers' entertainment: The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 'Tis something, in the dearth of fame. Though link'd among a fetterd race, To feel at least a patriot's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Poetry - 1996 - 868 pages
...your sires' 'Islands of the Blest.' The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; 15 And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece...Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. 4 A king sate on the rocky brow 20 Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships, by thousands, lay... | |
 | Muriel Spark - Fiction - 1963 - 148 pages
...conception of it, lovely frozen image that it was, but he presently slept with Selina on the roof. The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks...Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. Joanna needs to know more life, thought Nicholas, as he loitered in the hall on one specific evening,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly "To gild refined gold, or paint the lily.' 1964 Don Juan good, Heroic womanhood. 6508 To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal dreamed that Greece might still be free. 1965 Don Juan ... That all-softening, overpowering knell,... | |
 | William Peter Hamilton - Business & Economics - 1998 - 372 pages
...contractors who fed and clothed and armed the "five million men" in the army of the victorious Xerxes? "The mountains look on Marathon — and Marathon looks on the sea," and they may continue looking at each other, until the crack of doom, without telling us the cost of the... | |
 | John W. Wohlfarth - Religion and politics - 2001 - 409 pages
...generations after have not gotten out from under. Chapter 17 THE LORD WILL REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER! The mountains look on Marathon — And Marathon looks...Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave. George Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan (1 821 ). The Jewish people survived the destruction of their national... | |
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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? 
