 To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom— Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind.  The works of lord Byron - Page 49by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1820Full view - About this book
 | William Pembroke Fetridge - Europe - 1874 - 548 pages
...ring in the pillar may still be seen. u Eternal spirit of the chainloss mind ! Brightest in dangerous liberty thou art, For there thy habitation is the...The heart, which love of thee alone can bind ; And where thy sons to fetters are conpi.cned — To fetters, and the damp vault's daylees gloom, Their... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 564 pages
...pride of her heroes trample ! BERANGER. Paraphrased by WILLIAM MAGINN. The Prisoner of Chillon. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloomTheir country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...which ages have not yet subdued In man — to have no master save his mood. BYRON: Island. Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons,...— The heart, which love of thee alone can bind. BYRON: Prisoner of CA illott. Oh, could I worship aught beneath the skies, That earth hath seen or... | |
 | English poetry - 1876 - 508 pages
...Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there ! WILLIAM COLLINS Chilian. • IT* TERNAL Spirit of the chainless mind ! *—' Brightest in...alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned, To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron - Poetry - 1994 - 884 pages
...heart— The heart which lore of thee alone can bind ; And when thy eons to fetters are consign 'd — tion is his lay. етегу wind. Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - English poetry - 1995 - 412 pages
...is the heart The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consigned To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their...conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame fmds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar - for 'twas... | |
 | J.A. Rogers - History - 2010 - 598 pages
...BYRON, in his tribute to Bonnivard, a Swiss patriot who died miserably in a dungeon, wrote: Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons,...country conquers with their martyrdom And Freedom's fame find wings on every wind. This is precisely what happened in the case of Toussaint L'Ouverture. His... | |
 | Andrea K. Henderson - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 230 pages
...here that a republican message, or at least a message about the sons of liberty, is offered: ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...heart The heart which love of thee alone can bind. . . (1-4) This sounds remarkably like Lovelace's poem, wherein the cell becomes a hermitage to the... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...delivery. While deliberate was influenced by liberate, it is from L de-libra: scales; see lithra. Eternal spirit of the chainless mind! Brightest in dungeons,...Liberty! Thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart. -Byron, Sonnet on Chillón (1816) The Swiss François de Bonnivard was imprisoned in Chillón for his... | |
 | Horst Albert Glaser, György Mihály Vajda - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 784 pages
...ofChillon (1816): Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou an! For these thy habitation is the heart The heart which love of thee alone can bind, [...]25 Fast gleichzeitig schrieb er sein erstes Drama Manfred (1834 UA), beeindruckt von Goethes Faust,... | |
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