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
| English fiction - 1824 - 486 pages
...foot with chains heavier than Louis can afford to lend, or his cousin Ferdinand venture to impose. The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion. — If Spain wish to be free, let her first effort be to throw off '•the fetters which she has forged... | |
| English poetry - 1826 - 434 pages
...share the murd'rous prey; To insult the shrine of Liberty with spoils 252 BEAUTIES OF THE MODERN POETS. 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 - 1828 - 374 pages
...kind; To mix with Kings in the low lust of sway, Yell in the hunt, and share the murderous prey ; V. 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... | |
| British poets - 1828 - 838 pages
...betray? The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slave* by their own compulsion! In mad game They bunt their manacles and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain! O Liberty! with profitless endeavour Have I pursued thrc, many a weary hour; Bat I!M. ii nor iwellst... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1829 - 575 pages
...murderous prey; To insult the shrine of Liberty with spoils From freemen torn; to tempt and lo 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 thce, many a weary hour; But thou nor swell's!... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1831 - 628 pages
...shrine of Liberty with spoils From Freemen torn ; to tempt and to betray Î V. The Sensual and tho self ! 33 О Liberty ! with profitless endeavor Have I pursued thee, many a weary hour ; But thou nor swell's!... | |
| Henry Nelson Coleridge - Slavery - 1832 - 334 pages
...thee, and light, and truth, and freedom, shine around thee hereafter in pure and unbroken splendor!' The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion. We anchored that night at a little distance from the mouth of Chaguaramus Bay, memorable as the scene... | |
| 1845 - 778 pages
...may, with a (light variation of sense — (how slight, futurity »ill disclose)— be spoken of us, " The sensual and the dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain '" The remedy for this evil need not be specified. I' is one, which a faithful regard to our own interMis,... | |
| Scotland - 1834 - 896 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 - Criticism - 1834 - 360 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 They break their manacles, to wear the name Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain. O liberty ! with profitless... | |
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