 | Kenneth O. Morgan - Great Britain - 2001 - 804 pages
...the next economic depression, rise decisively against it. He would have echoed Shelley's challenge: 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. In the 1840s events in Ireland seemed to bring the revolution perceptibly... | |
 | Miranda Seymour - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 722 pages
...Hunt, seeing danger for himself as well as Shelley, refused to act as the publisher. One can see why. '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.'15 Reading these lines makes it hard to understand why Mary, in 1839,... | |
 | Ian Balfour - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 372 pages
...Like Oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again-again-again'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number—...earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few." 47 The poet seems to act merely as the medium for words that are only... | |
 | Joan George - History - 2002 - 312 pages
...the revolutionary urges working men to: Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable numberShake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on youYe are many— they are few. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Most historians are agreed that Armenia's... | |
 | Marc Redfield - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 272 pages
...Like oppression's thundered doom Ringing through each heart and brain, Heard again—again—again— "Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number—...earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few." (360-72) Thus the poem ends, far distant from the sleeper in Italy. As... | |
 | Stuart Rees - Human rights - 2003 - 308 pages
...be united in nonviolent protest, they may experience solidarity and undermine the force of armies. "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. . . . "Stand ye calm and resolute, Like a forest close and mute,... | |
 | Notes from Nowhere (Organization) - Political Science - 2003 - 530 pages
...the famous lines to Manchester's working poor after troops fired on them in the Peterloo massacre: "Rise, like lions after slumber, In unvanquishable...your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fall'n on you! Ye are many, and they are few." In reality, the system is more like a huge wedding cake... | |
 | Howard Zinn - History - 2009 - 516 pages
...Shirt," and another . . . Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Mask of Anarchy." . . . "Rise like lions after slumher In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth, like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you — Ye are many, they are few!" The conditions in the factories did not change much. On the afternoon... | |
 | Marcos (subcomandante.) - History - 2004 - 692 pages
...the same number of votes as you or I - one. And there are more of us than there are of them... ". . .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!" - Percy B. Shelley TO BE CONTINUED... *kj** CHAPTER i: 1994-1996 - Spreading... | |
 | Antonino D'Ambrosio - Music - 2004 - 388 pages
...purpose of art is to lay bare the questions, which have been hidden by the answers. — James Baldwin 'Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number,...chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on youYe are many — they are few. — Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy As a kid growing up... | |
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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. 
