 | Gerald Finley - 1999 - 280 ページ
...with feeling of the difference between the glory of ancient Greece and its present ignominious state: Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal,...scatter'd children forth, And long accustom'd bondage uncreate?4 Turner acknowledged the importance of the legacy of ancient Greece in his Royal Academy... | |
 | Susan E. Alcock - 2000 - 336 ページ
...her savage victor captive, and brought the arts into rustic Latium . . .J (Horace, Epistles 2.1.156) Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more; though fallen great! (Lord Byron, "Childc Harold's Pilgrimage," n.lx.xiii) The history of Greece under foreign domination... | |
 | Eric O. Clarke - 2000 - 254 ページ
...the rise in Europe and the United States of a vigorous literary philhellenism," figures Greece as a "sad relic of departed worth! / Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great!" U./3).34 Childe Harold chastises both Greeks and Europeans for not fighting against the "slavish sickle"... | |
 | David Roessel - 2001 - 416 ページ
...Thy vales of ever-green, thy hills of snow, Proclaim thee Nature's varied favorite now. (11.85.801-4) Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal,...no more! though fallen, great! Who now shall lead the scatter'd children forth, And long accustom 'd bondage uncreate? Not such thy sons who whilome... | |
 | Drummond Bone - 2004 - 340 ページ
...also permeates the second canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, best exemplified in stanza 73 's lines: 'Fair Greece! Sad relic of departed worth! / Immortal, though no more; though fallen great!' (in political terms, this adds up to the resignation of stanza 76; 'But ne'er will freedom seek this... | |
 | Dino Franco Felluga - 2005 - 230 ページ
...through the dream of things that were"). As we come to realize, the question is also a literal one: Who now shall lead thy scatter'd children forth, And...uncreate? Not such thy sons who whilome did await, The hopeless warriors of a willing doom, In bleak Thermopylae's sepulchral strait — Oh! who that gallant... | |
| |
Fair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth ! Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great! Who now shall lead thy scatter'd children forth, And long accustom'd bondage uncreate? Not such thy sons who whilome did await, The hopeless warriors of a willing... 
