PRISONER OF CHILLON. MY hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine... The Book of Table-talk - Page 1by Charles MacFarlane - 1836Full view - About this book
| Louise Swanton-Belloc - 1824 - 400 pages
...carrière comme ils l'avaient commencée, My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rustcd with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil ; And mine bas been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd , and barr'd — forbiddcn fare... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1825 - 1016 pages
...night,' As men's have grown from sudden fears; My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare;... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - Venice (Italy) - 1831 - 302 pages
...was so glad to have escaped. CHAPTER VI. My limbs are bowed, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine hath been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd— forbidden fare ; Prisoner of Chilian. WHEN the day dawned... | |
| 1870 - 604 pages
...Prisoner of Chillon," he seems to say, " My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine have been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth, nnd air Are bann'd and barr'd forbidden fare."... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832 - 488 pages
...night,' As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bami'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1832 - 488 pages
...night,* As men's have grown from sudden fears : My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bami'd, and barr'd — forhidden fare... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1835 - 348 pages
...this change in hert was to be attributed. My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, (') For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, andbarr'd — forbidden fare;... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1836 - 486 pages
...waa so glad to have escaped. CHAPTER X. % My limbs are bow'd, though not with toll, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine hath been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare. Prisoner of Chilian. i WHEN the day... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 260 pages
...with toil, My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, But rusted with a vile repose. For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air. Are bann'd and barr'd—forbidden fare... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1842 - 866 pages
...Sfona, and others. — The same U 138 139 My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with u. has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are bann'd, and barr'd — forbidden fare... | |
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