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" The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion! In mad game They burst their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain! "
The Book of Table-talk - Page 175
by Charles MacFarlane - 1836
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator

Theology - 1837 - 710 pages
...described her guilty and miserable career : " The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by iheir own compulsion : in mad game They burst their manacles,...wear the name Of Freedom graven on a heavier chain." Do they trust in the increasing knowledge of the people, and in the vast machinery kept in perpetual...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 52

1834 - 602 pages
...any part of the other two odes, prove the accuracy of the distinction taken as a matter of fact. ' The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...wear the name Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain. O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee many a weary hour; — But thou nor swell'st...
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On the Philosophy of Temperance, and the Physical Causes of Moral Sadness

William Moore Wooler - Temperance - 1840 - 110 pages
...precluded from seeing the loveliness and beauty of holiness. " The sensual and dark rebel in rain, Slaves by their own compulsion! In mad game, They...wear the name Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain." When the film is cleared from the eye of the mind, we then truly discover the brutality of that vice...
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The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...Freemen torn ; to tempt and to betray ? V. The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their on n j ! 33 O Liberty ! with profitless endeavor Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor swell's!...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 3

1842 - 748 pages
...restrained to some one or two fashions taken up by Liberty at some one particular time. He knows that — " The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...wear the name Of Freedom graven on a heavier chain." If we were asked what was the prominent result likely to be produced by Mr. Carlylc's French Revolution...
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Parliamentary Papers, Volume 16

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1844 - 606 pages
...grounds, perTadethe whole district respecting this formidable and injurious influx of Irish labourers, t " The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, • Slaves by their own compulsion. In mad game They break their manacles, to wear the name Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain." — Coleridge. J Subsequently...
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A Synopsis of Popery, as it was and as it is

William Hogan - Anti-Catholicism - 1845 - 232 pages
...repealers, are striking at American freedom! They shall not succeed. The slaves of a Pope cannot succeed. " The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...wear the name Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain. O Liberty ! with profitless endeavor Have I pursued thee many a weary hour; — ^ ' But thou nor swell's!...
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A Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 500 pages
...freeman. But beyond, what country lies across the waters ? France. And is she free ? Alas ! no ; for " The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...in mad game They burst their manacles, and wear the uau,e Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain." And then, throughout the poem, he gives in monologue,...
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A Gallery of Literary Portraits

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1845 - 484 pages
...across the waters ? France. And is she free ? Alas ! no ; for " The sensual and the dark rebel in Tain, Slaves by their own compulsion, in mad game They burst...wear the name Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain." And then, throughout the poem, he gives in monologue, addressed to all free and eternal things, a confession...
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Memoirs and Correspondence of the Most Noble Richard Marquess ..., Volume 1

Robert Rouiere Pearce - Great Britain - 1846 - 480 pages
...murderous prey ; To insult the shrine of Liberty with spoils From freemen torn ; to tempt and to betray ? The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain ! was the oldest, the most constant, and the most powerful of the enemies of France, and therefore...
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