 He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday — All this rushed with his blood —...  Childe Harold's pilgrimage: Italy - Page 102by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1872Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1851 - 352 pages
...There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday — All this rush'd with his blood — Shall he expire And unavenged ?...where buzzing nations choked the ways, And roar'd or rnurmur'd like a mountain stream Dashing or winding as its torrent strays ; Here, where the Roman million's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday. All this rushed with his blood. Shall he expire, And unavenged ? Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire ! Romans, so barbarous, so brutal ; and were not the historical evidence irrefutable, we could hardly... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1852 - 776 pages
...was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered U« make a Komau holiday — All this rushed with his blood — shall he expire And unavenged ? Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire ! Our renders will perceive at once, from this example, that our strictures are not unjust; nnd Mr.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make'a Roman holiday, — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire, And unavenged ? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire ! 33. DEGENERACY OF GREECE. — Lard Byron. THE Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...was their Dacian mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday, — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire, And unavenged ? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire ! 33. DEGENERACY OF GREECE. — Lord Byron. THE Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece ! Where burning... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a lloman holiday. All this rush'd with his blood. Shall he expire, And unavenged ? Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire ! APOSTROPHE TO THE OCEAN. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Octavian Blewitt - Italy - 1853 - 394 pages
...There was their I iacian mother- he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday. All this ru,.h'd with his blood— shall he expire, And unavenged? Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire !" childe Harold. One of the most accurate of critics, John Bell, describes the anatomy of the Dying... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...Tkere was meir Dacian mother — he, their sire, ButcherM to make a Roman holiday — M All this rmh'cl with his blood — Shall he expire And unavenged ?— Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire 1 CXL1I. But here, where Murder breathed her bloody itcmn And here, where buzzing nations choked ihu... | |
 | John Kitto - Bible - 1853 - 522 pages
...There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday — All this rush'd with his blood : — Shall he expire, And unavenged ? Arise, ye Goths ! and glut your ire.' BYRON, Childe Harold, Canto IV., cxl., cxli. slave ; and that elegant attire, and those roseate hues,'... | |
 | Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland - Bristol (England) - 1853 - 402 pages
...play, There was their Daci.m mother, he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday; All this rush'd with his blood. Shall he expire, And unavenged ?—Arise ! ye Goths, and glut your ire." Childe Harold, IV. 140, 111. It has often been remarked, that we owe no thanks to the man who robs... | |
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