| Robert Walsh - American literature - 1888 - 576 pages
...board to steal; and this, too, in ancient Lesbos, the birth place of Alceus and Terpander, one of ' The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung.'" — Pp. 471.473. Of the literary execution of the work before us, it is to be observed that there are... | |
| William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...remembrance saddening o'er each brow, How had the brave who fell exulted now ! " SONG OF A GREEK. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The... | |
| English literature - 1840 - 528 pages
...JERRARD. Translate into LATIN HEXAMETERS and PENTAMETERS : THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece 1 Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phcebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.... | |
| Cam river - 1841 - 318 pages
...tremulas ramalia cunas, Omniaque illa solo, cunee volventur et infans. FH THE ISLES OF GREECE. THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning...sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phœbus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The... | |
| Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1897 - 706 pages
...championing the cause of Crete, hymning in glowing language the griefs of The leles of Greece, the Islee of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of War and Peace, Where Dc'los rose, wht'nce Bo» llEin sprung. Busings done. — Debate on Crete. " Championing the Cauje... | |
| Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - Caricatures and cartoons - 1865 - 524 pages
...m-/ini//y in groups, smoking baleikas, and one is playing on a tetracAordion, while the others sing, " The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece, Where burning SAPPHO loved and sung, Where honest folks might live in peace If half the brigands were but hung." IPPOPOTAMOS PBEPOSTEROS comes... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1841 - 380 pages
...again would soon he thine. . Sang of a Greek. The isles of Greece, the isle of Greece ! Where hurning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, — Where Delos rose, and Phoehus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1841 - 498 pages
...prosperity. SECTION II. Historical Notices of the principal Grecian Islands mentioned in this Work. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, "Where burning Sappho loved and sung ; \Vhere grew the arts of war and peace, Whence Delos rose and Phrebus sprung. BYRON. 1. COHCV'RA,... | |
| American poetry - 1842 - 480 pages
...and o'er it throws A loving languor, which is not repose. From Don Juat, SONO OF THE GREEK BARD. The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! Where burning...sung— Where grew the arts of war and peace — Where Delos rose and Phcebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The... | |
| 1842 - 682 pages
...wilderness a trifle too dull. But there was Greece — ' The isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved end sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Délos rose, and Phsbus sprung.' And it 'is there, that, after the above-mentioned ' lapse,' -we find our hero located.... | |
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