 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 175by Charles MacFarlane - 1836Full view - About this book
 | George Gilfillan - Authors - 1846 - 508 pages
...waters ? France. And is she free ? Alas ! no ; for " The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Staves by their own compulsion, in mad game They burst their...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... | |
 | Book - 1847 - 492 pages
...name of liberty and republican forms. Their boasted equality was the equality of despotism, — the equality of Turkey. The sensual and the dark rebel...Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain. COLERIDGE. LIII. A QUEER TRANSLATION FROM VITRUVIUS. MISTRANSLATIONS from the Greek and Latin would fill a very... | |
 | Robert Rouiere Pearce - 1847 - 490 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1847 - 310 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 ! O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor swell'st... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Aesthetics - 1847 - 572 pages
...with regard to the disputes and the parties disputant. With more than poetic feeling I exclaimed : The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion ! In mad game The; break their manacles, to wear the name Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain. O Liberty ! with... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - Criticism - 1847 - 462 pages
...with regard to the disputes and the parties disputant. With more than poetic feeling I exclaimed : — The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion ! In mad game » See Laing's History of Scotland. — Walter Scoffs bards, ballads, &c. » [See The Friend, sect.... | |
 | sir Henry Taylor - 1849 - 328 pages
...instructed by the events that were occurring in France, and expressed it with characteristic force : — ' The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion.' * Milton saw it, ardently political as he was ; * France, an Ode. or perhaps he saw it only when the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 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 ! O Liberty ! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour; But thou nor swell'st... | |
 | William Adams - Christian ethics - 1850 - 392 pages
...and always have acted as beings that have in their nature a faculty whose function is Freedom. Nay, * The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion. the very upholders of these arguments — even they act as if their own reasoning were false. No Necessitarian... | |
 | George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1851 - 316 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...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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