| Religion - 1813 - 996 pages
...that's there." p. 53. The second canto brings us at once to Athens and the following fine lines. " Ancient of days! august Athena! where — Where are thy men of might : thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were. First in the race... | |
| English literature - 1811 - 600 pages
...to those "gloomy and uncomfortable thoughts which seem but too familiar to the mind of the author. ' Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where. Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were. First in the race... | |
| 1811 - 546 pages
...to those gloomy and uncomfortable thoughts which seem but too familiar to tne mind of the author. ' Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ' thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were. First in the race... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 510 pages
...ruins of Athens : II. ' Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were, First in the force that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away — rf'this the whole? A school-boy's tale,... | |
| Anonymous - History - 1812 - 512 pages
...commencement of the second Canto, we find the following apostrophe, to the ruins of Athens : II. ' Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of thing* that were, First in the force that... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1812 - 506 pages
...commencement of the second Canto, we find the following apostrophe, to the ruins of Athens : II. ' Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were, First in the force... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English literature - 1812 - 314 pages
...men who never felt the sacred glow That thoughts of thee and thine on polish'd breasts bestow.* I. Ancient of days ' august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone— glimmering through thedream of things that were, First in the race that... | |
| Theology - 1813 - 486 pages
...that's there." — p. SS. The second canto brings us at once to Athens and the following fine lines. " Ancient of days! august Athena! where— Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were, first in the race that... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 330 pages
...Ancient of days ! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were, First in the race that led to Glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away — is this the whole ? A school-boy's tale, the wonder of an hour! The warrior's... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 322 pages
...polish'd breasts bestow. I. Ancient of days! augnst Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone— glimmering through the dream of things...: First in the race that led to Glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away — is this the whole ? A school-boy's tale, the wonder of an hour ! The warrior's... | |
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