 Yes ! 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 ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy...  Chess Player's Chronicle - Página 1541849Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Jeff Kitchen - 2006 - 386 páginas
...PHAEDRUS Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches. — PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones; whose table earth, whose dice were human bones. — LORD BYRON Tootsie Character is the governing element of life, and is above genius. — GEORGE... | |
 | 2013 - 249 páginas
...England the victor of Copenhagen. 25. NAPOLEON, EMPBEOE OF FEBNCH. " Who, born no king, made millions draw his car ; Whose game was empires and whose stakes...Whose table, earth ; whose dice were human bones." — BYEON. THE dreams of Napoleon, with regard to India, vanished in the thunder and smoke of the battle... | |
 | Edwin Davies - 2008 - 688 páginas
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 | 1903 - 728 páginas
...summit, how daring soever the aspii'ants, even should they rival Byron's reckless dicers : " Whose gam3 was empires and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones," they find that their ambition is but the " caeca cupido " of Lucretius, " the blind desire (of supremacy)... | |
 | ROUTLEDGE - 746 páginas
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 | 1993 - 540 páginas
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