 | Barbara Jelavich - 1983 - 436 páginas
...hope of courage dwells; But Turkish force, and Latin fraud, Would break your shield, however broad. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine Dash down yon cup... | |
 | Malcolm Miles Kelsall - 1987 - 234 páginas
...course of liberty. The alternative offered by the Greek Southey ends in mere sentimentalism: -16Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon... | |
 | 1993 - 412 páginas
...on each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine @ Dash down yon... | |
 | Alfred Noe - 1994 - 248 páginas
...his otherwise Haroldian The Isles of Greece, inserted in Canto III of Don Juan (1818): Place me by Sunium's marbled steep Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-tike, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall never be mine Dash down yon cup... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1996 - 868 páginas
...each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, 90 To think such breasts must suckle slaves. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: 95 A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine Dash down yon... | |
 | Norman Davies - 1996 - 1428 páginas
...a dissolving dream. Above all, there was the young Lord Byron dreaming about The Isles of Greece': Place me on Sunium's marbled steep Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep. There, swan-like, let me sing and die.The Romantics wrote on Greece with beguiling genius; and... | |
 | Jerome McGann - 2002 - 332 páginas
...option of suicide. Such is also the option toward which "The Isles of Greece" makes its final gesture. Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down you... | |
 | James A. Arieti - 2005 - 420 páginas
...Greek temples showed the same themes repeatedly, Figure 3. Sounion In Lord Byron's verse, "Sounion's marbled steep,/ Where nothing save the waves and I may hear our mutual murmurs sweep," is the rocky headland that rises nearly 200 feet above the sea. 24 Here stands a majestic temple... | |
 | 廖七一 - 2006 - 362 páginas
...each glowing maid, My own the burning tear-drop laves, To think such breasts must suckle slaves. XVI Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine@ Dash down yon cup... | |
 | Brian Fagan - 2006 - 318 páginas
...exotic places, like Lord Byron's Greece and Napoleon Bonaparte's Egypt. Place me on Sunium's marble steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. BYRON1 Don Juan CHAPTER FOUR Greece Bespoiled he grand... | |
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Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die: A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine! 
