Thee haughtytyrants ne’er shall tame; All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse thy generous flame, And work their woe and thy renown.
His anchor’s up, fair Freedom’s flag Proud to the mast he nails; Tyrantsand conquerors bow your heads, For there your terror sails.
The nations not so blest as thee Must in their turn to tyrants fall, Whilst thou shalt flourish great and free-- The dread and envy of them all!
He alone has power to annihilate the great and petty tyrants of Italy, and to win himself a crown.
Thus the laws oftyrants condemn me, but the rights of man acquit me.
Thou hast seen the sovereigns of the world; thou hast seen tyrantssurrounded by their parasites and their infamous courtesans; and thou hast seen priests who make use of religion as an instrument of oppression.
To increase my misery, I read in the history of the Greeks and Romans what advancement man made in virtue when tyrants were put down, and he was left to follow the bent of his own nature.
Nothing escapes his penetrating eye; and he inflicts merited chastisement on the tyrants who revelled in the prostrated liberties of his country, while he immortalizes those few who were faithful to duty and conscience in a degenerate age.
It began with democratic institutions, and flourished as long as the People were a great power in the State; it declined whenever and wherever tyrants bore rule.
These tyrantsfill their treasuries as the magpies their nests!
There is an old saying, that all tyrants are cowards, that tyranny is in itself a species of meanness, I acknowledge; but still the saying ought to be modified.
I do not like to mention names, but I could point out specimens of brave tyrants and of cowardly tyrants, who have existed, and do even now exist, in our service.
If it is asserted that all mean tyrantsare cowards, I agree: but I have known in the service most special tyrants, who were not cowards: their tyranny was excessive, but there was no meanness in there dispositions.
The tyrants they must leave our door, The tyrants they must leave our door, The tyrants they must leave our door, Then we'll be free in Baltimore.
Shall tyrants desecrate the sod Our fathers hallowed with their blood, Or cowards tread where heroes trod?
Shall dastard tyrants march their legions To crush the land of Jackson--Lee?
Let-haughty tyrants know, Our sunny land shall be In spite of every foe, Home of the brave and free.
By every stone in Charleston Bay, By each beleaguered town, We swear to rest not, night nor day, But hunt the tyrants down!
Rebel arms shall win the fight, Rebel prayers defend us; Rebel maidens greet us home, When tyrants no more rend us.
The superiority of the Americans over the Spaniards as fighting men is known throughout the islands Spain oppressed; and the bonds of the tyrants have been broken.
He regards them both as the enemies of reasoning and abstraction, though in the case of Euripides more with reference to his immoral sentiments about tyrants and the like.
And therefore every care must be taken that our auxiliaries, being stronger than our citizens, may not grow to be too much for them and become savage tyrants instead of friends and allies?
Why, because he is the author of the pregnant saying, 'Tyrants are wise by living with the wise;' and he clearly meant to say that they are the wise whom the tyrant makes his companions.
There is no need to suppose that he drew from life; or that his knowledge of tyrants is derived from a personal acquaintance with Dionysius.
The Greek tyrants were not insensible to the importance of awakening in their cause a Pseudo-Hellenic feeling; they were proud of successes at the Olympic games; they were not devoid of the love of literature and art.
When once we are fairly rid of our tyrants then it will be time enough to turn out these English.
The eulogiums which he lavishes on them are so extravagant that at present they would excite indignation if he had even given them to legitimate princes, his benefactors, instead of to tyrants, and to his tyrants in particular.
Pisistratus at Athens; a period of tyrants like Cypselus and Pisistratus himself, men of strong, sometimes unscrupulous individuality, but often also acute and cultivated patrons of the arts.
He was also the author of a History of the Tyrants of Ephesus.
During the Mithridatic war, the king set over them such tyrants as he pleased.
Which envious eld forbore, and tyrants left to stand.
Can tyrantsbut by tyrants conquered be, And Freedom find no champion and no child Such as Columbia saw arise when she Sprung forth a Pallas, armed and undefiled?
The broken tools, thattyrants cast away By myriads, when they dare to pave their way With human hearts--to what?
Saw ye not whom the reeking sabre smote; Nor saved your brethren ere they sank beneath Tyrantsand tyrants' slaves?
The cause of order is the cause of liberty; tyrantsand thieves alone thrive by confusion.
Pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrantsuse it cruelly.
Kings will betyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
For pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
For these reasons, and in order that life might not cease, women should seek to turn their husbands into women; then they would be tyrants and their husbands would be slaves, and life would be renewed for a further period.
The gory sanction of his Glory stains The rust which tyrants cherish on our chains.
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