He fell, the forest-prowlers' prey ; But thou must eat thy heart away ! The Roman, when his burning heart Was slaked with blood of Rome, Threw down the dagger, dared depart, In savage grandeur, home. He dared depart in utter scorn Of men that such a yoke... Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Page 432publié par - 1814Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...choice is most ignobly brave !^ He who of old would rend me' cJak",! Dreamed not of the rebound; 48 Chained by the trunk he vainly broke — Alone —...of thy strength An equal deed hast done at length, 63 And darker fate hast found: He fell, the forest-prowlers' prey; But thou must eat thy heart away!... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 pages
...Prince — or live a slave — Thy choice is most ignobly brave ! VI. He who of old would rend the oak,* Dreamed not of the rebound; Chained by the trunk he...at length, And darker fate hast found: He fell, the forest prowlers' prey; But thou must eat thy heart away! 1 " Certaminis gaudia " — the expression... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1907 - 1376 pages
...Prince — or live a slave — Thy choice is most ignobly brave ! VI. He who of old would rend the oak,1 aters red. LXVI. But thou, Clitumnus ! l in thy sweetest...limbs where nothing hid them, thou dost rear Thy gras ™ fell, the forest prowlers' prey; But thou must eat thy heart away ! . '. Certaminis gaudia " —... | |
| William Stanley Braithwaite - 1909 - 1334 pages
...the oak, Dream'd not of the rebound : Chain'd by the trunk he vainly broke — Alone — how look'd he round ? Thou, in the sternness of thy strength,...length, And darker fate hast found : He fell, the forest prowlers' prey; But thou must eat thy heart away ! The Roman, when his burning heart Was slaked... | |
| Curtis Hidden Page - 1910 - 968 pages
...Chain'd by the trunk he vainly broke — Alone — how look'd he round ? Thou, in the sternness of thv ender up the tale Of what we are. In forest prowlers' prey : But thou must eat thy heart away ! The Roman, when his burning heart Was slaked... | |
| 1915 - 470 pages
...rhetoric cannot be denied, nor the ingenuity of its symbolism : ' He who of old would rend the oak Dreamed not of the rebound ; Chained by the trunk...at length, And darker fate hast found' He fell, the forest prowlers' prey. But thou must eat thy heart away.' In the ' Ode on Venice,' not published until... | |
| 1915 - 470 pages
...rhetoric cannot be denied, nor the ingenuity of its symbolism : ' He who of old would rend the oak Dreamed not of the rebound ; Chained by the trunk he vainly broke, — Alone — how looked he round ? Thcu, in the sternness of thy strength, An equal deed hast done at length, And darker fate hast found... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1916 - 276 pages
...rhetoric cannot be denied, nor the ingenuity of its symbolism — " He who of old would rend the oak Dreamed not of the rebound; Chained by the trunk he...at length, And darker fate hast found; He fell, the forest prowlers' prey, But thou must eat thy heart away." In the " Ode on Venice," not published until... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1916 - 272 pages
...rhetoric cannot be denied, nor the ingenuity of its symbolism — " He who of old would rend the oak Dreamed not of the rebound; Chained by the trunk he...at length. And darker fate hast found; He fell, the forest prowlers' prey, But thou must eat thy heart away." In the " Ode on Venice," not published until... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1916 - 272 pages
...rhetoric cannot be denied, nor the ingenuity of its symbolism— " He who of old would rend the oak Dreamed not of the rebound; Chained by the trunk he...at length, And darker fate hast found; He fell, the forest prowlers' prey, But thou must eat thy heart away." In the " Ode on Venice," not published until... | |
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