Cold is the heart, fair Greece! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they loved; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed By British hands, which it had best behoved To guard those relics... The Greece of the Greeks - Page 224by G. A. Perdicaris - 1845Full view - About this book
| 1812 - 560 pages
...peaceful, not the warlike plunderers, of Greece ; concluding the burst of his indignation thus : — XV. Cold is the heart, fair Greece ! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd ; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd... | |
| Enos Bronson - 1812 - 562 pages
...peaceful, not the warlike plunderers, of Greece ; concluding the burst of his indignation thus : — XV. Cold is the heart, fair Greece ! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1812 - 314 pages
...Cold is the heart, fair Greece ! that looks on tliee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd ; - Dull is the eye that will not weep to see . Thy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd By British hands, which it had best behov'd To guard those... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1814 - 718 pages
...theatrical representation, as actually to draw tears from her eyes.' And who marvels at such emotion ? ' Cold is the heart, fair Greece ! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd ; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1814 - 324 pages
...? Idly he wander'd on the Stygian shore, Nor now preserv'd the walls he lov'd to shield before. XV. Cold is the heart, fair Greece ! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 248 pages
...prey ? Idly he wander'd on the Stygian shore, BOW preserv'd the walls he lov'd to shield before. XV. Cold is the heart, fair Greece! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd ; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defae'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1815 - 334 pages
...Idly he wander'd on the Stygian shore, Nor now preserved the walls he lov'd to shield before. .XV. Cold is the heart, fair Greece ! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd ; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd... | |
| 1815 - 740 pages
...Cold is the heart, fair Greece, that looks on thee, . [lov'd ; Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd [hov'd By British hands, which it had besc beTo guard those... | |
| Edward Daniel Clarke - 1817 - 658 pages
...theatrical repreientation, as actually to draw tears from her eyes." And who marvels at such emotion ? , " Cold is the heart, fair Greece! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd ; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defac'd, thy mouldering shrines remov'd... | |
| S C. Walford - 1817 - 166 pages
...of moral animation, iu the spectacle she exhibits, of abject and lamentable degradation. " Cold is heart, fair Greece, that looks on thee, " Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they lov'd. " Dull is the eye that will not weep to see " Thy walls defac'd — thy mould' ring shrines... | |
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