 To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom, And Freedom's fame finds wings on every wind. Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar - for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have...  Englische Studien - Page 5171880Full view - About this book
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1848 - 320 pages
...and follow armies. THE PRISONER OF CHILLON. SONNET ON CHILLON. Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom. Their... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 pages
...establish, rather than prevent, the liberties of nations. " Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art ; For there...the heart, The heart, which love of thee alone can hind : And when thy sons to fetters are consigned, To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom,... | |
 | 1849 - 610 pages
...erring, deemed the chief he sought. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. BY BY1OH. ETERNAL spirit of the chainleas Mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...habitation is the heart — The heart which love of Ihee alone can hind, And when thy sona to fetters are consigned To fetters, and the damp vault's dayles»... | |
 | Lewis W. Paine - 1851 - 206 pages
...which was to convene on the second Monday of the August following. CHAPTER VL IMPRISONMENT IN JAIL. " Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art ; For there...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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1853 - 360 pages
...imprisonment, often serve to exhibit the best and noblest qualities of the Christian's character. " Brightest in dungeons, Liberty, thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart." . I ' After an imprisonment of seven months, Penn was suddenly liberated ; it is believed, in consideration... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...commend him." * THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN; A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. pirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...habitation is the heart — The heart which love of thce alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters arc consign'd — To fetters, and the damp vault's... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...him." * THE PRISONER OF CHILLÓN; A FABLE. SONNET ON CHILLÓN. ETERNAL spirit of the chainless mind ! and others share as dark a doom, Th lore of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd — To fetters, and the damp... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1855 - 410 pages
...sensibility. — JEFFREY. THE PKISONER OF CHILLOK SONNET ON CHILLON. ETERNAL Spirit of the chainless Mind !* Brightest in dungeons, Liberty ! thou art, For there...heart — The heart which love of thee alone can bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are consign' d — To fetters, and the damp vault's dayless gloom, Their... | |
 | Rudolph Bardy - 1855 - 254 pages
...of my brave, but down-trodden nation. MY PRISON AND FLIGHT. ' Eternal spirit of the chainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, liberty thou art ; For there...the heart — The heart, which love of thee alone combined !" On the following day I was summoned to Kossuth. He said to me, that as there were no evident... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - 612 pages
...slavery upon men Determin'd to be free. Southey's Joan of Are. Eternal spirit of the ehainless mind ! Brightest in dungeons, liberty ! thou art ! For there thy habitation is the heart — The heart whieh love of thee alone ean bind ; And when thy sons to fetters are eonsign'd — To fetters, and... | |
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