 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1892
...cried, Hunt MS., Hunt, 1832. XXXVIII " Rise like lions after slumber, / In unvanquishable number ; ke your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many, they are few. XXXIX " What is Freedom ? — Ye can tell That which Slavery is too... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - English poetry - 1893 - 345 pages
...with Joy enthroned o'er his lost empire reigns ! THE TRUE FREEDOM. (FROM "THE MASQUE OF ANARCHY.") MEN of England, Heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten...your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fall'n on you. Ye are many, they are few. 1UBI For To a What is Freedom ? Ye can tell That which Slavery... | |
 | 1894
...Men of England in his Masque of Anarchy marks the highest point of his achievement in this style :— Men of England, Heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten...mother, Hopes of her, and one another! Rise, like lions aftor slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fall'n... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1894
...are in England." •" Rise," he shouts to the pale hosts gathering from workhouse and prison, — " Rise, like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable...Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fall'n on you. Ye are many — they are few! " In a prophetic spirit, as it were, he closes : — "... | |
 | Sir Frederick Wedmore - Patriotic poetry, English - 1897 - 290 pages
...— and I'll gain the victory ! " 48 PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) From " The Masque of Anarchy " MEN of England, Heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten...Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep has fallen on you. Ye are many . . . they are few. Shelley was living at Villa Valsovano, near Leghorn,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898
...not at the name, America ! . . . — The Reiwlt of Islam, Canto XI. ON THE PETERLOO MASSACRE. XXXVII. Men of England, heirs of glory, Heroes of unwritten...of one mighty mother, Hopes of her and one another! XXXVIII. Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you ! Ye are many, they are... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898
...and one another I XXXVIII. Rise like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number ! VOL. XX.— 30 Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you ! Ye are many, they are few. XXXIX. What is Freedom ? Ye can tell That which Slavery is too well, For... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - English poetry - 1899 - 307 pages
...her face had been bedewed To an accent unwithstood, — As if her heart had cried aloud : XXXVII " Men of England, heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten...to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few. xxxix . " What is Freedom ? — ye can tell That which slavery is,... | |
 | William Edward Armytage Axon - Lancashire - 1899 - 263 pages
...done?" What he did was to write his " Mask of Anarchy," in which he made a call to the nation :— " Rise like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number...to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you ; Ye are many—they are few." The effect of Peterloo was to bring forth a greater disposition to united... | |
 | William Forsyth - Abernethy and Kincardine (Scotland : Parish) - 1900 - 447 pages
...force and richness, he seemed ten years younger than when he started. " THE MASQUE OF ANARCHY." 37. " Men of England, heirs of glory, Heroes of unwritten...of one mighty mother, Hopes of her and one another ! 38. " Rise, like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew... | |
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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many — they are few. 
