 | Hugh A. Kennedy - Chess - 1876 - 256 pages
...massive and capacious — a fit " palace of the soul " for the mighty player " Whose game was empire, and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose dice were human bones." The floor was strewed with a litter of books and manuscripts ; a marble bust of his son, the Duke of... | |
 | Scotland - 1877 - 812 pages
...jolly, while a more tremendons Titan than be who lies under Etna — " Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones"— was convulsing Europe from Cadiz to Moscow, from Reggio to Hamburg. The reign of Joseph Buonaparte... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1878 - 636 pages
...the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth —...dice were human bones? Behold the grand result in you lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. Sigh to behold the eagle's lofty rage Reduced... | |
 | Where, Who - Quotations - 1878 - 186 pages
...thousand years The battle and the breeze. CAMPBELL, Ye Ma/riners of England. Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones. BYRON, The Age of Browe. Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 pages
...the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth —...dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in you lone isle. And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. Sigh to behold the eagle's lofty rage Reduced... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...the champion and the child Of all that 's great or little, wise or wild? Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones? Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones? A tribute paid to Kosciusko is put with all possible brevity. In Campbell's lines the name is in four... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...stakes were thrones ; Whose tahle earth — whose dice were human hones? Behold the grand result in you lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. Sigh to hehold the eagle's lofty rage Reduced to nihhle at his narrow cage ; Smile to survey the queller of... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 680 pages
...the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth— whose...behold the eagle's lofty rage Reduced to nibble at nis narrow cage ; Smile to survey the queller of the nations Now daily squabbling o'er disputed rations... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1881 - 486 pages
...champion—and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ? Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose...lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. 3. Smile to behold the eagle's lofty rage Reduced to nibble at his narrow cage: Smile to survey the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1881 - 488 pages
...champion — and the child 'Of all that's great or little, wise or wild? Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth, whose...lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile. 3. Smile to behold the eagle's lofty rage Reduced to nibble at his narrow cage: Smile to survey the... | |
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Ye* ! where is he, the champion and the child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ; Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones ; Whose table earth— whose dice were human bones? 
