 Thine evil deeds are writ in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain : If thou hadst died as honour dies, Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world again — But who would soar the solar height,...  My life, by the author of 'Stories of Waterloo'. - Side 197av William Hamilton Maxwell - 1835Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 34 sider
...in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain — If thou hadst died as honour dies. Some new Napoleon...the solar height, To set in such a starless night ? XII Weigh'd in the balance, hero dust "' Is vile as vulgar clay ; Thy scalesj Mortality ! are just... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1814 - 54 sider
...in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain — If thou hadst died as honour dies, Some new Napoleon...the solar height, To set in such a starless night ? [ »о] XII Weigh'd in the balance, hero dust Is vile as vulgar clay ; Thy scales. Mortality! are... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1814 - 98 sider
...in gore. Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain. — If thou hadst died as honour dies, Some new Napoleon...soar the solar height To set in such a starless night ? fc4 XII. Weighed in the balance, hero dust Is vile as vulgar clay ; Thy scales, mortality ! are just... | |
 | 1814 - 760 sider
...living breath, His tens of thousands by his fame in cfeath.' t Lord Byron, says, ' I ft ho ii ha«tst died as honour dies, Some new Napoleon might arise...soar the solar height To set in such a starless night ?' In another stanza, after telling the prostrate Usurper, that not till his fall ' could mortals guess... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1814 - 88 sider
...writ in gore, Nor written thus in vain— Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain.— If thou hadst died as honour dies. Some new Napoleon...again. But who would soar the solar height, To set in sueh a starless night ? XII. Weighed in the halanee, hero dust Is vile as vulgar elay ; Thy seales,... | |
 | Isaac Bailey - 1814 - 826 sider
...in gore, Nor written tints in vain—- Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain. — If thou hadst died as honour dies, Some new Napoleon...world again. But who would soar the solar height.. To let in such a starless night ? Weighed in the balance, hero dust Is Tile as vulgar clay; Thy scales,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1814 - 572 sider
...his catastrophe is represented, it is said to afford the stronger moral ' and political lesson : < ' If thou hadst died as honour dies Some new Napoleon...again — But who would soar the solar height, To get in such a starless night ?' The mention of the Archduchess Maria Louisa, and the uncertainty whether... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 378 sider
...mon., . ; ;. ' v,..,il Or deepen every stain — •.' .. :, If thou hadst died as honour dies, ;. yv'A Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world again — But who would soar the solar height, •".:.;. 'ti To set in such a starless night ? ..". .;•-' «. i' I 15 ] XII. Weigh'd in the balance,... | |
 | 1814 - 786 sider
...written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain — If thou badst died as Honour dies, Some new Napoleon might arise, To shame the world acain — But who would soar the solar height To set in such a starless night?" " And she, proud Austria's... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 sider
...in gore, Nor written thus in vain — Thy triumphs tell of fame no more, Or deepen every stain. — If thou hadst died as honour dies, Some new Napoleon...the solar height, To set in such a starless night ? XII. Weighed in the balance, hero dust Is vile as vulgar clay ; Thy scales mortality ! art just To... | |
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