John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (17881824) (continued)
5591 War, war is still the cry,war even to the knife! 1
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto i. Stanza 86.
5592 Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 2.
5593 A schoolboys tale, the wonder of an hour!
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 2.
5594 Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 2.
5595 The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. 2
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 6.
5596 Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 23.
5597 None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possessd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 24.
5598 But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the worlds tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 26.
5599 Coopd in their winged, sea-girt citadel.
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 28.
5600 Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 73.
5601 Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 76.
5602 A thousand years scarce serve to form a state: An hour may lay it in the dust.
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 84.
5603 Land of lost gods and godlike men.
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 85.
5604 Whereer we tread, t is haunted, holy ground.
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 88.
5605 Age shakes Athenas tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 88.
Note 1. War even to the knife was the reply of Palafox, the governor of Saragossa, when summoned to surrender by the French, who besieged that city in 1808. [back ]Note 2. See Waller, Quotation 11 . [back ]