To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left... Hoekzema's Gleanings from English Poetry - Side 152af David Hoekzema - 1893 - 334 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1830 - 400 sider
...Vevay, by his wife, which Addison has copied in his Travels. li " MONTREAUX AND THE CASTLE OF CHILLON. Chillon ! thy prison Is a holy place, And thy sad...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. BYRON. THE Castle of Chillon can never be viewed without exciting the noblest associations — those... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - 1830 - 594 sider
...if-..- ii- v i • \ r,i . "!.«• i•"•• ' I. I • . MONTREUX THE CASTLE OF CHILLON. Chillon I thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. BYRON. THE Castle of Chillon can never be viewed without exciting the noblest associations — those... | |
| Thomas Roscoe - 1830 - 398 sider
...MONTREUX THE CASTLE OF CHILLON. Chillon.' thy prison Is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar—for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace, Worn as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By I5oyinivn.nl !—May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God. BYRON. THE Castle... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1831 - 442 sider
...hind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd— To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's...tyranny to God. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. i. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, (2) As men's have grown from sudden... | |
| 1831 - 488 sider
...bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's...marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God." LITERARY CRITICISM. Tile Characters of Theophraslus ; illustrated by Physiognomical Sketches. To which... | |
| 1831 - 486 sider
...bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom. Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's...have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were » sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God." LITERARY... | |
| François Bonivard - 1831 - 876 sider
...prison is a holy place, « And tby sad floor an altar — tor'twas trod, « Until his very steps hâve left a trace « Worn, as if thy cold pavement were...marks efface! •< For they appeal from tyranny to God (i). » voir pas été à temps suffisamment informé de l'histoire de Bonnivard, pour célébrer son... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 sider
...bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's...And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until liis very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 sider
...; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — , To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's...is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace, Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 sider
...; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd— ., To fetters, and the damp vanlt's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's...is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 't was trod, Until his very steps have left a trace, Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard... | |
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