How long by tyrants shall thy land be trod!
How long by tyrants shall thy land be trod!
Those hours that with gentle work did frame , The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell ,, Will play the tyrants to the very same ,, And that unfair which fairly doth excel; ,; For never-resting Time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there, ,; Sap checked with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, , Beauty o'ersnowed and bareness everywhere.
Those hours, that with gentle work did frame The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell, Will play the tyrants to the very same And that unfair which fairly doth excel: For never-resting time leads summer on To hideous winter and confounds him there; Sap cheque'd with frost and lusty leaves quite gone, Beauty o'ersnow'd and bareness every where: Then, were not summer's distillation left, A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass, Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft, Nor it nor no r
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Young tyrants who bring pain, intimidation, and violence.
】(Hotch) Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.
】 ●Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
McAdoo (1863 - 1941) With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
When he read about Jacob dressing himself in sheep-skins to personify Esau, and so to usurp his brother's birthright, he would clench his little fist in anger against the deceiver; when he read of tyrants and of the injustice and wickedness of the world, tears would come into his eyes, and he was quite filled with the thought of the justice and truth which must and would triumph.
Out of the "Clouds" of Aristophanes, satire and humor are pouring down in streams upon the audience; on the stage Socrates, the most remarkable man in Athens, he who had been the shield and defence of the people against the thirty tyrants, is held up mentally and bodily to ridicule—Socrates, who saved Alcibiades and Xenophon in the turmoil of battle, and whose genius soared far above the gods of the ancients.