 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1912 - 244 страници
...himself resolutely opposed to tyranny in any form, asserting his hatred of despotism in memorable lines : will teach, if possible, the stones To rise against...tyrants. Never let it Be said that we still truckle unto thrones."1 Such doctrine was, of course, not new in Byron's poetry. He had already spoken eloquently... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1922 - 1032 страници
...would have been a leading one whether for good or for bad, as that last Greek adventure was to prove. For I will teach, if possible, the stones To rise against earth's tyrants. The same aspect of Byron shows through—with a bit of flourish, one feels—in the comment on the... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison Lehman - 1922 - 32 страници
...would have been a leading one whether for good or for bad, as that last Greek adventure was to prove. For I will teach, if possible, the stones To rise against earth's tyrants. The same aspect of Byron shows through—with a bit of flourish, one feels—in the comment on the... | |
 | Benjamin Harrison Lehman - 1928 - 226 страници
...would have been a leading one whether for good or for bad, as that last Greek adventure was to prove. For I will teach, if possible, the stones To rise against earth's tyrants. (Don Juan, VIII, cxxxv) The same aspect of Byron shows through — with a bit of flourish, one feels... | |
 | Angus Calder - 1989 - 202 страници
...didactic journalist - and that's certainly a Scottish trait. But so is the radical heart of the message: For I will teach, if possible, the stones To rise...But ye, our children's children! think how we Showed what things were before the world was free! I wish this book well. It is timely, following Byron's... | |
 | Steven Bruhm - 1994 - 210 страници
..."shrieks and groans" that the Russian sovereignty inflicted on the people of Ismail (VIII,1 35,l.2): "For I will teach, if possible, the stones / To rise against earth's tyrants" (VIII,1 35,ll.45). No longer does the aesthetic risk becoming anesthetic; rather, as a political poetry,... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - 2001 - 360 страници
...courageous sort? He certainly makes very clear the political purpose of his poetry in these powerful lines: For I will teach. if possible. the stones To rise...ye — our children's children! think how we Showed what things were before the world was free lemphasis is Byron's: canto 8; stanza 135 [406]1. This is... | |
 | Simon Bainbridge - 2003 - 280 страници
...this 'Russ so witty' stimulates Byron's climatic statement of his own poetic role in the siege cantos: He wrote this Polar melody, and set it. Duly accompanied...ye — our children's children! think how we Showed what things were before the world was free! (VIII. 135) Defining his own song against Suvorov's 'Polar... | |
 | Dino Franco Felluga - 2005 - 230 страници
...justice. As he states in Don Juan, looking forward, in fact, all the way to our own new millennium, For I will teach, if possible, the stones To rise...ye — our children's children! Think how we Showed what things were before the World was free! That hour is not for us, but 'tis for you: And as, in the... | |
 | Andrea K. Henderson - 2008 - 14 страници
...fact, Byron suggests in Don Juan, they were the least free of all. Even as he rails against tyranny - "I will teach, if possible, the stones / To rise against...Never let it / Be said that we still truckle unto thrones"34 - the narrator proclaims that freedom is a practical impossibility, especially for those... | |
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He wrote this Polar melody, and set it, Duly accompanied by shrieks and groans, "Which few will sing, I trust, but none forget it — For I will teach, if possible, the stones To rise against Earth's tyrants. 
