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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 [ed. by C. MacFarlane]. - Page 117
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 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 1 In mad game They break 'their manacles, to wear the name Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain. O...
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The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an ..., Volume 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 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 1 In mad game They break their manacles, to wear the name Of freedom, graven on a heavier chain. 0...
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Proceedings, Volume 20

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 268 pages
...soon, alas! he found those hopes unfulfilled, and those fears accomplished. It is for ever true : — " The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain." Well might he invoke the spirit of Freedom to forgive the dreams in which, along with so many others,...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issues 20-21

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1867 - 546 pages
...soon, alas! he found those hopes unfulfilled, and those fears accomplished. It is for ever true : — " The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain." Well might he invoke the spirit of Freedom to forgive the dreams in which, along with so many others,...
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Exercises in Grammatical Analysis

Edward Thring - English language - 1868 - 256 pages
...the dark rebel \^in vain, slaves Tby their own |_compulsion. of Freedom, "graven on a heavier chain. The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...and wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain—Coleridge. •H 2 EXAMPLE FOR PRACTICE. A little semi-vestibule between two doors prefaced...
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Coleridge, Biographia Literaria: Chapters I-IV, XIV-XXII. Wordsworth ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1920 - 388 pages
...both 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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 69

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 578 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 ; or perhaps he saw it only when the ardour of his political...
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry

Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 516 pages
...sleepers awake, in warning that man in revolt is inadequate if he is bound by minimal sense perception: The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by their own compulsion! The poet himself confesses that he has pursued liberty many a weary hour, but profitlessly. For Thou...
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Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature

Meyer Howard Abrams - Romanticism - 1973 - 564 pages
...minds are confined by the limits of their own physical senses — merely replaces slavery by slavery. The Sensual and the Dark rebel in vain, Slaves by...wear the name Of Freedom, graven on a heavier chain! O Liberty! . . . But thou nor swell'st the victor's strain, nor ever Didst breath thy soul in forms...
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Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life ..., Part 1

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1984 - 860 pages
...both 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 an heavier chain. O liberty! with profitless...
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